[LON-CAPA-users] Making exams

Michael T Hamlin lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:58:20 -0400 (EDT)


> >I'm not sure what you mean here-- no multiple choices, the student records
> >his numerical answer somehow?  Either he writes on the exam paper
> >(requiring a human to grade), or how else?
>
> We use a custom bubble sheet onto which the students can bubble scientific
> notation answers. Thus the scantron output includes things like "-3.64E-12".
> So, as long as we can get these strings back into LON-CAPA we should be
> able to grade them as a normal numerical response.

Neat-o.