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1.1       www         1: \label{exam_basics}
1.3     ! felicia     2: 
1.2       www         3: There are multiple things here that you will need in order to run an exam.
                      4: \begin{enumerate}
                      5: \item you will need to be able to get a file from your scanning office
1.1       www         6: that is scan of the bubbled scantron sheets.
1.2       www         7: \item you will need to modify the scantronformat.tab file to properly
1.1       www         8: describe what your data file looks like.
1.2       www         9: \end{enumerate}
1.1       www        10: 
1.2       www        11: To see a homework problem set turned into a bubble sheet exam you need to - set the parameter 'problemtype' for the set to 'exam' in PARM.
1.1       www        12: 
                     13: The set of problems now it should automatically convert to a
                     14: 'bubbled input' display, both online and when printing.
                     15: 
                     16: You should be able to print out all of the exams now and there will be
                     17: an individualized exam for each student.
                     18: 
                     19: When grading the exam you will need to 
1.2       www        20: \begin{enumerate}
                     21: \item goto the set
                     22: \item click PGRD
                     23: \item click on 'Grade Scantron Forms'
                     24: \item you will then need to upload the sacntron data file to the Lon-CAPA
1.1       www        25: server (it is the bottom option on that screen.)
1.2       www        26: \item one it is uploaded go back to the 'Grade Scnatron forms' screen
                     27: \item fill in the top form, and click 'Validate records'
                     28: \end{enumerate}
1.1       www        29: 
1.2       www        30: From there on out it tries to describe what is going on in detail so
1.1       www        31: reading the screen and answering the questions should be straight
                     32: forward.
                     33: 
1.2       www        34: We are also supporting annonymous mode of using scantron
1.1       www        35: form exams.
                     36: 
                     37: Basically some people don't want to take the time to hand out 300
                     38: exams to indiviual students (I.e make sure Alice gets Alice's exam and
                     39: Bob gets Bob's exam.) So we have another mode, where we generate
                     40: different exam versions all of which have a 6-letter 'CODE' which
                     41: control the random numbers. The generating and grading of these is a
1.2       www        42: bit more complex.
                     43: \begin{enumerate}
                     44: \item got to a resource in a course
                     45: \item hit PRT
                     46: \item select 'Problem from <mapname> for anonymous students'
                     47: \item click Next ->
                     48: \item type in the number of exams you want generated
                     49: \item if you want to save the CODEs for later so the bubbled input can be
1.1       www        50:     validated, type in a name to save them under
1.2       www        51: \item click Next->
                     52: \item print them out
                     53: \item fill in some scantron forms
                     54: \item get them scanned
                     55: \item upload the scan results
                     56: \item goto PGRD
                     57: \item click 'Grade' scantron form
                     58: \item Select the map, datafile, scantron format that knows where a CODE
1.1       www        59:      is on the form, and the name that CODEs where saved under
1.2       www        60: \item click 'Validate Scantron Records'
                     61: \item follow the on screen prompts.
                     62: \end{enumerate}