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Marking units

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Marking units

The system of units allows to test students' knowledge of units. You can specify mark fraction deduction for a wrong unit. The wrong unit here means that the unit that is not convertible to the correct unit, under conversion rules. Suppose a student get 2 marks for this subquestion answer. If the unit penalty = 0.2 and she give wrong unit, then the student can get 2(1-0.2) = 1.6 mark for this submission. (See Grading scheme).

If a teacher does not specify any unit for the subquestion, then the unit box will not be displayed and there is no need for students to enter it. However, if the student enters anything after their answer, it is usually considered to be incorrect so the mark of unit will be deduced. Hence, in the above case, it is better to set 1 for mark deduction.

Nevertheless, if you do not want to penalize the student entering arbitrary string at the end of answer, set 0 for mark deduction. i.e. their unit does not count toward their grade, but you still allow student use any convertible unit. Note that you have assumed a default answer that does not require unit.


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