[Using Sakai] paper exams

Tue Oct 9 13:22:48 PDT 2012

There is also the capability in the Assignments tool to have a
"nonelectronic" assignment (ie, one requiring no submission), that can
still be graded, etc.

= nate

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Nakamura, Mayuko <mnakamu at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> How about using the feedback tool?  I'm not sure if I'm reading your e-mail correctly, Gregory, but if you just want to give each student grades and comments for each question, you could create excel files with grades and comments and upload it to the feedback tool.
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> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jim Mezzanotte
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> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] paper exams
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> Hi Gregory,
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> As far as I know, there isn't a way to provide scores/feedback for an assessment in Tests & Quizzes without students submitting it. But one approach might be to replicate the paper exam by adding each question as a "short answer/essay" type.
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> Students wouldn't need to answer the questions--for example, they could just enter something like "paper exam submitted" in a single answer box, and then submit the assessment (you could also just include an additional introductory question, worth no points, for students to enter this).
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> Best,
> Jim Mezzanotte
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>> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:55:37 -0500
>> From: Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu>
>> Subject: [Using Sakai] Paper exams
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>> I never got an answer to this that I think will support our use-case.
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>> We want to have an exam, with 8 questions, on paper, and be able to enter and post the exam scores including individual question descriptions and their score, and some comments on their results.
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>> Exams seem to require online submission by students, but do have the individual question scores and comments.
>> But assignments allow offline submission, but do not have individual question components.
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>> Is there an easy way to do this?
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>> From: Zaahirah Bhamjee <Zaahirah.Bhamjee at wits.ac.za>
>> Subject: [Using Sakai] Setting up Email Archive
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>> Hi,
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>> I am currently on the Instructional Design team at the University of
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>> 1.       How do Universities usually go about creating the course email accounts and who manages the inboxes? We have been testing and none of the emails go through. What procedure is generally followed to create these emails?
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>> 2.       I've also seen the Mailtool and Mail Sender tools, if we were to deploy email archive which of the tools would complement it best?
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