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Using the ReadAnswerApplet

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The Read Answer Applet is the module used to view the students answers that has been saved on the server. NOTE! The answers to a question page is saved on the server only if the page was created in feedback mode Save. See Make Page Applet for details.

Quick guide

Controls

Statistics

Troubleshooting

How to start

Select the appropriate link (depending on the browser) from the systems start page. The Applet will start to load to your browser, please be patient as the loading might take a while, depending on your Internet connection. When loaded a username/password window will be showed. Enter the user name and password given to you by the system administrator and press the Ok button. After approximately 5-10 s the subject select list will display the courses that you have access to, double-click on the subjects which question pages you would like to create/modify. After a few seconds the Applet will have loaded the necessary information from the server and you may start working with it.

How to use it

The ReadAnswerApplet displays the questions and the student replies in a way similar to the MakePageApplet. The questions and the replies are displayed on the left, on the right there are two list one for selecting the question page and one for selecting the students.

Fig.1 Looking at the answers of student 100 for question page CrossPage

Controls

The Controls are easy to use. Choose the page in the Page Select list and the student in the Student Select list . The students are displayed either with there cedula (even though in Fig. 2 there are a bit short) or with there names. You can select the way they are displayed by clicking on the Name Switch.

Fig. 2 Selection controls

Statistics

For each page you can look at an overview of the students replies by selecting the overview switch. To see all the answers to all the pages press the result summary button, a primitive Html pages will be displayed in a new browser window

The Total panel give information about the selected student answers on all pages.

The Current panel gives information about the selected students answers to the currently selected question page. In future versions more statistics may be added, e.g. information about the average of student answers to a specific page etc. etc.

Fig. 3 The image to the left shows the total stats for the selected student. The student has answered two out of three question pages. The total number of subquestions on these pages were six, and the student has answered them all correctly. The image to the right shows the number of corrected answer of the currently selected question page. The student has here answered four of the question page four subquestions correct.

Question page type specific features

Cross: The answer number displayed, is the number the student answered with, not the number of the correct answer. I.e. they will be different if the answer was not correct.
Alternative: The marked alternative is the answer given by the student, if the answer was wrong all radio buttons will have a red background.
Written: There is a small text field to the right of the question text area, this is not used in the current implementation. In future version how ever this may be used by the teacher to set the grade of the students reply. These grade could then be saved on the server.

Troubleshooting

As Java is a relative new technology, there are still numerous bugs and strange things could occur when using it. The following is highly recommended when using the applet.

Try to have as few other applications running as possible.
Try to use the slider bars when possible instead of resizing the browser window.
There is a bug (at least when running with Netscape 4.04 batch version) that makes it impossible to save a page two times without closing the browser and start again.
When the Java is starting, have patience and wait. Don't try to click on two many buttons.