[LON-CAPA-users] option to re-evaluate answers

Gerd Kortemeyer korte at lite.msu.edu
Sat Oct 26 08:36:31 EDT 2013


Hi,

On Oct 26, 2013, at 4:46 AM, johansson <johansson at hs-koblenz.de> wrote:

> Is there any option to re-evaluate course-participants’ answers?
> This options could be helpful, if the unfortunate case happens that a
> correct solution was entered incorrectly in the exercise description.
> (incorrect answer by author in the problem description)
> If the problem with the correct solution is republished, only new
> course-participants’ answers were evaluated with respect to the new-
> correct answers, the older (correct) ones are signed to "incorrect". Is
> there any way to reevaluate all answers manually to get the correctness
> of answers of all course-participants?

No, we do not have that functionality. It’s actually quite complicated, since in most situations, we allow multiple tries to get the correct answer. If a student calculates the correct answer to an ill-coded problem and wrongly gets “incorrect”, he or she will likely keep on working and submit another answer. In order to begin addressing this issue, we would have to re-grade every answer the student submitted and stop if we find the first correct one.

In situations like this, I just apologize and give a point to everybody. Then move on.

- Gerd.


More information about the LON-CAPA-users mailing list