Formulas question tutorial
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My first formulas question
To create a Formulas question, you must complete at least all required fields, that is, the five below marked with an asterisk:
General Question name* Main question Question text* Part 1 Part's mark* Answer* Grading criteria*
Example
Create your first formulas question as follows:
General Question name* My first formulas question Main question Question text* What is 3 + 4? Part 1 Part's mark* 1 Answer* 7 Grading criteria* Absolute errror == 0
Congratulations, you just created your first question!
The "Editing a formulas question" page should look like this:
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and the formulas question that was just created should look like this:
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Subquestions
If there is more than one question in a question, we will call them subquestions. It is then necessary to define the mark, answer and grading criteria in a part for each subquestion.
Example
General
Question name* Formulas question with three subquestions
Main question
Question text* What is 3 + 4?
What is 4 + 5?
What is 5 + 5?
Please enter your answers below in the same order as the questions.
Part 1
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 7
Grading criteria* Absolute errror == 0
Part 2
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 9
Grading criteria* Absolute errror == 0
Part 3
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 10
Grading criteria* Absolute errror == 0
Single question
We begin by considering the simple case of a single question. We will see how the text of the question can be placed in the Main question, or in a Part if we treat the question as a subquestion. Better yet, we will show how to use a placeholder.
Question text in the Main question
The most basic form of a formulas question is having the text of the question in the Question text field of the Main question section. To create such a simple formulas question, you must complete at least all the required fields, that is, the five below marked with an asterisk:
General Question name* Main question Question text* Part 1 Part's mark* Answer* Grading criteria*
Example
Create your first formulas question as follows:
General Question name* My first formulas question Main question Question text* What is 3 + 4? Part 1 Part's mark* 1 Answer* 7 Grading criteria* Absolute error == 0
Congratulations, you just created your first formulas question! The "Editing a formulas question" page should look like this:
and the formulas question should look like this:
Question text in a Part
For a single question, it makes almost no difference if the question text is put in the Main question or in a Part.
Example
Modify the previous example and place the text of the question this time in the Part's text field of Part 1:
General Question name* Question text in Part 1 Main question Question text* A question on the addition Part 1 Part's mark* 1 Answer* 7 Grading criteria* Absolute errror == 0 Part's text What is 3 + 4?
The formulas question should look like this:
Notice that some text has to appear in the Question text field of the Main question because this is a required field.
Using a placeholder
Placeholders are used to insert the text of subquestions in the Main question. We will see later that they are very convenient. Note that each subquestion being assigned to a part, we will use interchangeably the terms subquestion and part.
Example
Modify the previous example and use a placeholder to insert the text of the subquestion in the main question:
General
Question name* Using a placeholder
Main question
Question text* A question on the addition
{#01}
Part 1
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 7
Grading criteria* Absolute error == 0
Placeholder name #01
Part's text What is 3 + 4?
The formulas question will look the same as in the previous example.
Multiple questions, i.e. subquestions
If there is more than one question in a formulas question, we will treat them as subquestions. It is then necessary to define the mark, answer and grading criteria in a part for each subquestion.
Without placeholders
If you don't use subquestion placeholders, the answer boxes of the subquestions will simply be stacked one above the other.
Example
Create a formulas question that has three sub-questions. Do not use placeholders.
General
Question name* A formulas question with three subquestions
Main question
Question text* What is 3 + 4?
What is 4 + 5?
What is 5 + 5?
Please enter your answers below in the same order as the questions:
Part 1
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 7
Grading criteria* Absolute error == 0
Part 2
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 9
Grading criteria* Absolute error == 0
Part 3
Part's mark* 1
Answer* 10
Grading criteria* Absolute error == 0
The formulas question should look like this:
Obviously, we can do better by placing the three questions each one in a part.
