[LON-CAPA-users] Online Exam Questions
Jay Sullivan
lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:07:42 -0400
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I've been using proctored quizzing and testing for a couple of semesters
now. I'm no expert just chiming in on a couple of things that I learned as
part of this evolving process:
1) Unless you want them to get hints you probably want to increase the
number of tries before hints appears to a large value.
2) You should give them at least two tries on every problem. The thinking is
that if a student makes a mistake entering what they think the answer is,
they have a chance to correct it without needing intervention from the CC. I
have problem status turned off too so they don't know if it's right or wrong
until later.**
I'm very interested in hearing responses to your question about restricting
access to other LONCAPA resources during the exam. This is the most
cumbersome part I have to deal with deploying an online quiz or exam. It
would be nice if there were a parameter to either explicitly restrict all
other resources or have chronological control over hiding/unhiding folders,
etc.
Just my $10^-2
Jay
**One interesting thing about this is that in student view the color scheme
in "Navigate Contents" for problems which have been answered and those
answered using up 2 tries is different. It took me some time to figure out
what was going on here. You may get students asking about this.
On 7/13/07, Todd Ruskell <truskell@mines.edu> wrote:
>
> We're gearing up for online exams, and I have a few questions. First,
> what we've done so far:
>
> 1) I know I can restrict access by IP address, and we have, I think, set
> that up properly.
>
> 2) We have turned off discussion for the exam resources, by using the
> "end discussion time", and "hide closed discussion" parameters.
>
> 3) We've had our IT people set up completely locked-down computer logins
> so students can't fire up unwanted programs, etc.
>
> 4) We've established a time limit on the resources in the folder.
>
> 5) We've turned off "show problem status"
>
> 6) The folder is currently hidden, and we will unhide it just before the
> exam starts.
>
> Now the questions:
> 1) Right now, we are planning to hide all resources except the online
> exam just before the exam starts. Is there an easier way to restrict
> student's access to all the other already existing resources in a course
> during an exam?
>
> 2) We have a couple of conceptual problems that ask several questions,
> each of which must be answered via a drop-down box. As a regular
> problem, these are "all or nothing", in that credit is only given if the
> answers to all questions are correct. As a printed bubble test, each
> question is a separate problem, which is graded correct/incorrect
> individually. As an online exam, however, it appears that the awarding
> of points goes back to the "regular problem" mode. I'm sure I can
> program the spreadsheet to make those problems award points individually
> for each question, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.
>
> 3) Are there any other exam security kinds of things I might want to
> think about?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd
>
>
> --
> Dr. Todd Ruskell
> Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics Office: Meyer Hall 326
> Colorado School of Mines Phone: 303-384-2080
> 1523 Illinois Street Fax: 303-273-3919
> Golden, CO 80401
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I've been using proctored quizzing and testing for a couple of semesters now. I'm no expert just chiming in on a couple of things that I learned as part of this evolving process:<br><br>1) Unless you want them to get hints you probably want to increase the number of tries before hints appears to a large value.
<br><br>2) You should give them at least two tries on every problem. The thinking is that if a student makes a mistake entering what they think the answer is, they have a chance to correct it without needing intervention from the CC. I have problem status turned off too so they don't know if it's right or wrong until later.**
<br><br>I'm very interested in hearing responses to your question about restricting access to other LONCAPA resources during the exam. This is the most cumbersome part I have to deal with deploying an online quiz or exam. It would be nice if there were a parameter to either explicitly restrict all other resources or have chronological control over hiding/unhiding folders, etc.
<br><br>Just my $10^-2<br>Jay<br><br>**One interesting thing about this is that in student view the color scheme in "Navigate Contents" for problems which have been answered and those answered using up 2 tries is different. It took me some time to figure out what was going on here. You may get students asking about this.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd Ruskell</b> <<a href="mailto:truskell@mines.edu">truskell@mines.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
We're gearing up for online exams, and I have a few questions. First,<br>what we've done so far:<br><br>1) I know I can restrict access by IP address, and we have, I think, set<br>that up properly.<br><br>2) We have turned off discussion for the exam resources, by using the
<br>"end discussion time", and "hide closed discussion" parameters.<br><br>3) We've had our IT people set up completely locked-down computer logins<br>so students can't fire up unwanted programs, etc.
<br><br>4) We've established a time limit on the resources in the folder.<br><br>5) We've turned off "show problem status"<br><br>6) The folder is currently hidden, and we will unhide it just before the<br>
exam starts.<br><br>Now the questions:<br>1) Right now, we are planning to hide all resources except the online<br>exam just before the exam starts. Is there an easier way to restrict<br>student's access to all the other already existing resources in a course
<br>during an exam?<br><br>2) We have a couple of conceptual problems that ask several questions,<br>each of which must be answered via a drop-down box. As a regular<br>problem, these are "all or nothing", in that credit is only given if the
<br>answers to all questions are correct. As a printed bubble test, each<br>question is a separate problem, which is graded correct/incorrect<br>individually. As an online exam, however, it appears that the awarding<br>
of points goes back to the "regular problem" mode. I'm sure I can<br>program the spreadsheet to make those problems award points individually<br>for each question, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way.
<br><br>3) Are there any other exam security kinds of things I might want to<br>think about?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Todd<br><br><br>--<br>Dr. Todd Ruskell<br>Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics Office: Meyer Hall 326
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