[Using Sakai] Auto-grading of short-answer questions

[Kenneth Litwak]

Hi Christine,

  Thanks for the tip.  I would not have guessed that.

Ken

Kenneth D. Litwak, Ph.D.
Azusa Pacific University
680 E. Alosta Ave.
Azusa, CA 91702
626-815-6000 x3148
klitwak at apu.edu


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Christine Doherty <cdoherty at stanford.edu>wrote:

> If yoy want auto-scoring for that short an answer, use Fill-in-the-Blank
> question type. Short answer/essay question type is meant for prose that
> can't be auto-scored.
>
> Christine Doherty
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 13, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Kenneth Litwak <klitwak at apu.edu> wrote:
>
> I set up a quiz with some short answer questions.  In one simple case, I
> asked students for the last name of a particular author.  My model answer
> was
> Gorman
>
> Almost all my students gave the answer
> Gorman
>
> Sakai scored every student's answer as wrong.  Is there some trick to get
> Sakai to be able to compare strings correctly, sot ath it recognizes a
> correct answer?  Thanks.
>
> Ken
>
>
> Kenneth D. Litwak, Ph.D.
> Azusa Pacific University
> 680 E. Alosta Ave.
> Azusa, CA 91702
> 626-815-6000 x3148
> klitwak at apu.edu
>
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