[LON-CAPA-users] Creative Authoring - number correct

[Mark Lucas]

Ray,

I think I get the gist. This basically reinvents the optionresponse
question so that you have a priori knowledge of the answers within the
script.

Mark

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:00 -0700, Ray Batchelor wrote:
> Mark,
>             It seems to me you could force this by having a precise
> number of foils, n of which are correct and all are displayed.  You
> could create randomness in the foils using the Perl script to randomly
> choose data for each of the fixed foils.
> 
> 
> If you need n to be a varilable then there will be additional
> complexity, but probably not inconceivable.
> 
> I might choose at that point to use randomlist, so that n remains a
> constant within a specific response block.
> 
> Capiche?
> 
> Ray
> 
> On 10/9/07, Mark Lucas <lucasm@ohio.edu> wrote:
> > Here's an interesting request:
> >
> > A Course Coordinator wants to show the students how many options are
> > correct in an optionresponse question. He does not want them to know
> > which ones, just how many.
> >
> > Arguments about whether this should be done aside, is there a creative
> > way to do this? Does the problem have enough information about the last
> > choices to build this information up?
> >
> > It would certainly be ugly, and the last thing you want hardcoded into a
> > problem.
> >
> > Any thoughts on the matter?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
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