Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

by Cristina Berisso -
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Hello everyone,

Could someone please guide me on how to achieve the following:

I would like to give 5 extra credit points to every student that gets a "passing grade" (70% or more) in a "practice test" at the end of each chapter covered in the course. This is to encourage them to practice after the homework quizzes and to get familiar with a "test type" situation before the actual test.

I do not want to give a grade proportional to the number of questions correctly answered, but rather a fixed number of points per successful try. Is such possible in the current grading scheme for quizzes/grade-book of Moodle 1.93?

Any guide/suggestion in this direction will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Cristina

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Re: Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

by Tim Hunt -
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You can probably do this in the gradebook. Hide the real score for the quiz, and make another calculated column that converts the quiz score to 5 if the have more than 70%, or 0 otherwise.

And there are people here to take great delight in devising devious gradebook formulas. Hopefully they can give you more detailed help.
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Re: Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Tim:

And there are people here to take great delight in devising devious gradebook formulas. Hopefully they can give you more detailed help.

big grin
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by Itamar Tzadok -
I also take great delight in growing yeast and baking bread. What else does one need in life? wink
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Re: Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

by Itamar Tzadok -
Added to the docs How_do_I_give_a_fixed_score_for_a_successful_quiz_attempt. Let me know if the guidelines are clear enough. smile
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Re: Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

by Cristina Berisso -

Hello everyone and thank you for responding so fast.

I see the cleverness of the formula and thank you for sharing it! My problem is that the ten items (the ten end of chapter self-tests) do not have a "calculator icon" associated with them. I see only one of this type of icons by the "Category Total" under which I have grouped all the end of chapter tests.

In that case, I guess my only chance would be to enter in the calculation for the "Category Total" a larger formula that adds ten different formulas like the one you showed, right? Sorry I am so ignorant on these matters...blush

If that is the case, how should the complete formula look like? Do I need to use the "sum" function? Can I use your formula in place of each of the ten items to be added for the total sum? Something like this:

=sum((round((test01/70-0.49,0)*5), (round((test02/70-0.49,0)*5), (round((test03/70-0.49,0)*5), .....) <-- ten arguments of that form.

or is this some crazy notation that the grade-book will not accept?

Thank you for your help and any further guidance!

Cristina

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Re: Is it possible to give a fixed score for succesfull attempt at a quiz?

by Cristina Berisso -

Thank you... THANK YOU guys!

I tried that monstrous formula in the "Category totals" and it worked!!! The students can now see the actual grade they got in the self-test and in the "Category Totals" they can see the total number of points awarded.

THANK YOU!!! I have been for years trying to simplify my work with these Extra Credit points and you gave an answer in less than 24 hours!

THANK YOU!!!

Cristina

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