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