Thank you Stuart. That tells us what we need to know! Doug
Douglas Mills Director of Instructional Technologies Department of Chemistry University of Illinois dmi...@illinois.edu (217) 244-5739 On 9/23/14, 1:59 PM, "Stuart Raeburn" <raeb...@msu.edu> wrote: >Hi Doug, > >LON-CAPA uses a message digest of the unique resource identifier (the >"symb"), the internal LON-CAPA courseID, and the exam CODE to create >the random seed. > >So if 104D section and the 104O section are different LON-CAPA courses >(with different courseIDs), which the LON-CAPA Course Catalog for the >uiuc domain for CHEM for Fall 2014 indicates is the case, then exams >generated in the two courses would be expected to use different seeds >for the same CODE. > >For future semesters you might consider aggregating the 104D and 104O >students in a single LON-CAPA course, but affiliating the student with >different groups (one for D, one for O), and then setting parameters >(e.g., content access etc.) based on group affiliation etc. > >For now, you could create yet another course (with enrollment from >both 104D and 104O courses) and generate the exam there for students >from both the D and O sections. That would mean students would need >to log-in to the "exam" course to see their submission history etc. >Alternatively, you could set student access dates in the exam course, >such that student roles would have already expired, print and grade >the exam in the "Exam" course and then export the grades, followed by >uploading grades into a score upload form in the separate 104D and >104O courses. However, that approach would provide students with only >the points earned in the exam, and no view of their submission >history/correct answers for their randomization etc. for individual >exam questions. > > >Stuart Raeburn >LON-CAPA Academic Consortium > >Quoting "Mills, Douglas G" <dmi...@illinois.edu>: > >> Hi All, >> >> Here's a question from an instructor I work with. I have done next >> to nothing with exams generated in Lon-Capa and he's the resident >> expert on it, so we need outside help with this. >> >> ________________________________ >> >> I have the online course and the "normal course". Ideally, I would >> like them to all take the same exam so I only have to have claire >> run off 1 set of copies. >> >> I think this might be a problem though, as when I make the exam pdf >> in the everything works fine. When I go to try to print the same >> code number exam in the 104O class, I get a different copy of the >> exam. >> >> I'm guessing a different random seed was used in each section. Is >> there any way for me to have the 104O section use the same exam >> versions? >> ________________________________ >> >> I guess the bottom line is, is there a way to get the two courses to >> use the same random seed for the same exam codes? >> >> Thanks! >> Doug >> >> Douglas Mills >> Director of Instructional Technologies >> Department of Chemistry >> University of Illinois >> dmi...@illinois.edu<mailto:dmi...@illinois.edu> >> (217) 244-5739 > >_______________________________________________ >LON-CAPA-users mailing list >LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org >http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
