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Importing the penalty for a quiz...

by netm@n by - Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 6:47 PM

This is the copy of another forum post from General Problems. I've moved it to here cause it was no response since sep.05.

I like to make the penalty for a wrong answer on a quiz .5 points. I can set this in the on-line question editor, but I would prefer to import my questions from a text document and not have to edit each question individually. I import using the GIFT format, is there a way to specify the wrong answer penalty in this format?

If not, where do I suggest that?

Also, if the above is no, is there a way to set the default in Moodle to be something other than .1?

Thanks,
Peter Kupfer

netm@n's post

Hi everybody and espessially Peter!

I have exactly the same problem with importing questions by using GIFT format together with setting penalty factor.
Furthermore, I need to assign different penalty factor to different question.

Any Ideas how to make it.

Using 1.5.3+

Re: Importing the penalty for a quiz...

by Lane Grann-Stahl - Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 2:30 AM

Not sure if I'm understanding exactly what you are wanting, but here is an example of incorporating a penalty in a basic GIFT format question:

What two people are entombed in Grant's tomb? {

~%-50%No one

~%50%Grant

~%50%Grant's wife

~%-50%Grant's father }

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Re: Importing the penalty for a quiz...

by netm@n by - Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 4:59 AM

No you did not get it. The problem is in penalty factor that works only in adaptive mode.

The problem is that default value is 0.1 so for every wrong sub-attempt student gets 10% off the total points of the particular question.

I think of my own percentage of penalties. They are for multiple choice with one correct answer:

2 choices - 100% penalty
3 choices - 50% penalty
4 choices - 33% penalty
5 choices - 25% penalty
6 choices - 20% penalty

I'm thinking of embedding my own code into import filter so it could calculate the number of possible choices for the question and put penalty factor automatically based of that number and rules mentioned above.

As for now I've changed database so if new question added the default penalty is .333 because the most popular question of mine with 4 choices - 33% penalty

And students like it much - they say "we could practice until we get right answer and we are agree with those penalties you put"

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