[LON-CAPA-users] Question about formating for Exam mode - THANKS

[Ray Batchelor]

Regarding Q#2, it may depend whether you are primarily concerned with
the appearance of the pdf document or merely the webpage.  You might
need to put some vspace or linebreak inside <tex></tex> tags, as I
believe that superfluous <br /> tags are ignored in the automatic
translation to TeX.

I believe that the printed question number always appears directly
before the list of options, rather than before any preamble text.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Alison A Baski/FS/VCU <aabaski@vcu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for the information about adding the format argument into the
> numericalresponse.   I had used a format statement when defining the
> variables, but did not have a format argument in the response itself.
> That fixed my Question #1!
>
> I suppose Question #2 will simply require some recoding with page breaks.
>  Also, I have noticed that the numbers of questions in exam mode appear at
> the END of the question if the text for the question is inside a radiobutton
> response routine.  I suppose that is another quirk.
>
> Alison
>
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> "Ray Batchelor" <batchelo@sfu.ca>
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> 11/18/2008 11:37 AM
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> Did you try setting the format argument on the numericalresponse to "3S"?
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Alison A Baski/FS/VCU <aabaski@vcu.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am tryiing to use the "exam" mode in order to create a multipe-choice
>> test
>> from a folder of resources.   I have two questions:
>>
>> QUESTION #1
>>>> For numerical response resources, the distractors in exam mode include
>>>> numbers with too many significant figures that are obviously not
>>>> correct.
>> For example:
>> If the radius of a planet is 2000 km, then what is its circumference (to 3
>> significant figures)?
>> a. 10080     b. 12600    c. 15750   d. 19687.5000    e. 24609.3750
>>
>> I have tried to set the significant figures parameter to 3 but nothing
>> changes.  Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> QUESTION #2
>>>> For radio response resources, there is no return after the question and
>>>> before the first answer, unlike how it is displayed as a regular
>>>> resource.
>> For example:
>> What major element comprises the solid inner core of the Earth? A. nickel
>> B. uranium
>> C. iron
>> D. lead
>> E. plutonium
>>
>> Do I need to recode all of these problems with a return after the question
>> to fix this problem?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Alison
>>
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