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At the end of each quiz, students see an analysis of their performance against the keywords set for the questions in that quiz. They can save one keyword to their revision log, and this will then be emphasised in their revision later on.
The update is that we now only allow one keyword to be saved; previously they all could. This artificial restriction may seem (more…)
John Davies from Kings School in Gütersloh asked me today about the scoring for Checkbox questions. It’s not obvious because the colour-coding in the Detail markbook is simply red or green, leading one to assume that a question would score a simple 1 or 0. But not so. A Checkbox can return a partial mark.
Why?
A Checkbox question is a list of items. For each item, the student must answer whether or not it fulfils a certain condition. In the example screenshot here, it’s whether the (more…)
Neil Birkin from Frederick Gent school is our #14th-ranked author, and therefore a Bloke To Be Listened To. He wrote to me today and asked
Both myself and the kids that I teach love (more…)
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