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Assigned Points for Quizzes

Marianne Vanderboom

November 09, 2016 15:35

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Hi,

Let's say I have 10 quizzes over the course of the semester, and I want each quiz to have the same weighted value. So I put the quizzes in a group called "quizzes", and make it 10% of the final grade, and I create the 10 quizzes, and set their points equally to 10 points, making each quiz worth 1% of the final grade. So far, so good.

But now I am limited in my quizzes to no more than 10 questions worth 1 point each, or exactly 10 questions, if I want to weight each question the same.

It would be fairly fantastic if you could tweak the formulae to allow me to use as many or as few questions as I want, set them at 1 point each, and figure out the fractional equivalent out of 10. So I have a quiz with 7 questions, and out of 7, and the student gets 6 out of 7, but Populi records the grade as 8.57 out of 10. If I have a quiz out of 11, and the student gets 9, Populi records the grade as 8.18 out of 10. Brilliant.

If the quiz is set to 10 points, and I have only 7 questions, I have "unassigned points", and I am unable to administer the quiz. If I randomly assign the extra points to existing questions, I have unequally weighted questions. I cannot go over the 10 points, either. I can't simply create the quiz out of 7, because then Populi will weight this quiz less than the quiz out of 10 or the one out of 12. I suppose I could create separate assignment groups for every single quiz, and set each assignment group out of 1%, but really, that becomes rather tedious. How much easier to allow me to set the points at 10 and add as many questions as I want, weighted as I want, and then insert the fractional equivalent into the gradebook?

Just a (brilliant) suggestion :-)

 

Marianne

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  Adam Sentz November 09, 2016 18:45

  @Marianne - You might be able to take advantage the fact that Populi automatically redistributes points in a quiz when you edit the number of points the assignment is worth. To take your example you could set the points to 7, add seven 1 point questions, and then set the points back to 10. This will leave you with 7 questions worth 1.43 points each.

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  Marianne Vanderboom November 09, 2016 18:48

  So if I set the points to 10 when I set up my gradebook, add 7 questions to the quiz when setting up the quiz, and then edit the value of the quiz from 10 to 10, will it do the same thing?

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  Adam Sentz November 09, 2016 18:57

  No, it won't redistribute the points unless the assignment points actually change. But you can set it up as 10, then change it to 7 right before you add the questions, then change it back to 10 when you are done. This way you can add however many you want, and as long as you add them as the same value they'll be equal when you set the points back to 10.

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  Dr. Philippe Yates November 28, 2016 13:44

  You can put all the questions for one quiz into one category (say 'Quiz n') (if you have already used them in a quiz you will need to do this in the Questions area. When you have put all the questions from one quiz into one category (I take screen shots of the quiz so I don't have to go back and find each question individually) go back to the test. Delete the questions and then add them back using the "Add questions from a category" option on the new questions tab. You can then choose to add say 7 questions for 10 points and the points for each question are automatically calculated. I think this should work.