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Does the student response to a short answer question have to be spelled
correctly? Is it case-sensitive?
If you have entered answers for short answer questions when you created the
quiz in QuizDesigner, QuizManager can only match student responses that
use the exact same spelling. To help QuizManager match student answers,
you can enter more than one correct answer in QuizDesigner with variations
in spelling, or you can enter multiple forms of the word (such as “rain” and
“raindrops”). When you create the quiz in QuizDesigner, you can turn on case
sensitivity. You can also restrict answers to numbers only.
What happens if a student skips a question?
AlphaQuiz allows students to answer questions in any order they like. They
can skip any question and return to it later. At the end of the quiz, students
can choose to view a list of questions with blank answers by pressing -B;
then, they can jump directly to one of those questions by pressing -J and
entering the question number. When you create the quiz in QuizDesigner,
you can choose whether students can exit the quiz and enter it later to update
responses, or whether students must mark the quiz finished so they can no
longer change their responses.
If I’m using an AlphaHub (SmartOption Mobile Lab), and I also have an open
USB port on my computer, can I use both methods of communication
between QuizManager and NEOs at the same time?
Yes. QuizManager supports AlphaHub communication and a direct USB
connection simultaneously. This allows you to work with up to 31 NEOs at
once with QuizManager.
Can a student spell check an essay question?
Spell check can’t be used directly within AlphaQuiz, although it can be used in
other SmartApplets, such as AlphaWord Plus. In QuizDesigner, the author of
a quiz can choose whether to allow use of spell check during the quiz. When
use of spell check is allowed, the student can copy text from an essay answer,
switch to AlphaWord on the NEO, and spell check the text there. When spell
check is disabled, the student cannot spell check the text in any SmartApplet.
By default, spell check is enabled unless you do the following on the Advanced
tab in the Quiz Options in QuizDesigner:
•Check Require students to mark quiz as finished.