[LON-CAPA-users] Hidden Resources

[Ray Batchelor]

Reality is complicated.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Gerd Kortemeyer <korte@lite.msu.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like we would need different "hiddens" to accommodate the different usages:
>
> * hidden exams - you want them to count
> * stuff that you just stuffed away and don't want to count
>
> Of course, that would mean yet-one-more-option that nobody understands => "LON-CAPA is so complicated" => "Let's use Moodle"
>
> - Gerd.
>
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Ray Batchelor wrote:
>
>> Yep.  If one is in the habit of hiding problems but not removing them
>> (which is often convenient) then one had better either remove them or
>> weight them "zero" before downloading marks.  I tend to zero-weight
>> them, because the next time I clone a course I might want to include
>> them again.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Gerd Kortemeyer <korte@lite.msu.edu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I believe hidden problems show up in chart. That's because some instructors keep their exams hidden at all times.
>>>
>>> - Gerd.
>>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Mark Lucas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When a problem is hidden in an assignment, the problem is not visible to the student
>>>> and any inquiries as to score do not include the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Is a hidden problem tallied under the charts for the course coordinator?  Is it supposed to be?
>>>>
>>>> We use the chart for the final download of scores. Will the hidden problems show up in the
>>>> point total?
>>>>
>>>> (Full disclosure - the problems seem to still show up in Charts under CC. I was caught off guard
>>>> by this, though in retrospect I never really kept hidden problems around. We have others that
>>>> keep the hidden problems around, oftentimes at my suggestion.)
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
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>>>> Mark Lucas                                                            email: lucasm@ohiou.edu
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>>>> Ohio University
>>>> Athens, OH 45701
>>>>
>>>
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Raymond J. Batchelor, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC
Canada
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