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How is the EXAM Moodle Responses report different?There are additional columns question name, response index and fraction.
question name is most useful for random questions.
response index and fraction are useful for locating attempts with a particular response.
See What is the response index? below.
How is the EXAM Moodle Manual grading frontpage different?
One can select questions.
- For automatically graded questions, there are options to:
- Print selected questions sorted by question and Print select questions sorted by student
- Export selected questions to an Assignment. See How can I use the Assignment PDF editor on files uploaded to Essays?
- In CSE courses, for quizzes associated with a CourseAdmin assignment, there are options to:
- Grade/Regrade selected questions to grade/regrade feedback based on CourseAdmin penalties, and
- Export selected questions to CourseAdmin to export CourseAdmin compliant feedback
- For automatically graded questions, there are options to:
- Export select question to Excel. The exported file includes grade and response index (and, optionally,
response). See What is the response index? below.
It includes also columns mark and comment for the current manual grade and comment - Import selected question from Excel: Changes in the exported file to columns mark and comment are saved as if entered through the Moodle GUI.
- Export select question to Excel. The exported file includes grade and response index (and, optionally,
For quizzes with CodeRunner questions: Regrade selected questions. (Respects the group menu.)
What is the response index
The response index appears in both the Response report and in the Excel files exported from the Manual grading/All questions report.
It is a very brief, and usually fairly intuitive, summary of the student's response to a question, independent of shuffling, the language mode, or changes to the wording of the answers (e.g. a correct response has a fixed value)
i.e. it is much more useful than the response field for locating attempts with a particular error
See How can I easily locate all students who chose a particular answer? and How can I easily give a bonus to all students who chose a particular answer in the EXAM Moodle cookbook
Note: It is supported for question types where there is only one correct response i.e. not for Essay, CodeRunner, VarNumeric*, Calculated* or ShortAnswer
The response index is a HUJI feature.
EXAM Moodle recipes
How can I easily locate all students who chose a particular answer?- In the Exam administration block, click on Responses
- Under Show the ensure that only response index and perhaps also fraction are checked and, if necessary, reload
- For most question types, it is fairly easy to deduce the student's answer from the response index.
For example, for a Matching question with three matches, the correct response index is "1,2,3"
and for a Multichoice question with multiple answers, a response index of "1,2,3" indicates that the student selected the first, second and third answers (as listed in the question settings)
How can I easily give a bonus to all students who chose a particular answer
It may happen that you want to adjust the grade for students who chose a particular response without changing the question itself.
For example in a Multichoice question with multiple answers, you may wish to give full marks for more than one combination of answers.
Let's say that the question is configured to give full marks if answers 1 and 2, and only 1 and 2, are selected. Otherwise zero.
However, you want to give a non-zero mark to anyone who chose answer 3 instead of 2.
- In the Exam administration block, click on Manual grading and select All questions
- Check the question and click on Export selected question to Excel
- In the downloaded file, search for all the rows with "1,3" in column response index and enter a value in column mark. Perhaps also some words of explanation in column comment
- Click on Import select question from Excel and upload the file back to Moodle