Hello Terry,

I am using SDAPS extensively at Princeton for exams, and am able to take
advantage of it's huge amount of flexibility. Up until now, I have mostly
done my postprocessing through rapid prototypes - something that is fine
for my own usage, but not suitable for public distribution. Over the past
summer, and in the upcoming year, I am developing a better set of tools to
hopefully be able to extend this.

Post-processing is actually very easy thanks to Benjamin's extensive CSV
export feature: this feature exports each individual's exam as a row, with
checkboxes as binary fields, and everything else as exported PNG images
(including, if desired, the checkboxes' images for doublechecking for
instance). This provides a vast opportunity to - often very simply -
postprocess the grades, even for very simple things like computing an
actual grade.

What I have in mind is very complicated, and possibly a separate set of
tools. So I think that what you are actually describing is something that
would greatly benefit SDAPS. That is having a built-in function to simply
extract a grade from a multiple choice exam with a simple grading scheme -
right now it is much more geared towards survey, and so as far as I know
the only ready-made exporting feature is the report with percentiles.

Best,
Jérémie.

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Terrence Kovacs <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am new to sdaps and am impressed by it's ability to process forms.  It
> is far better at this than the commercial software we have been using to
> process bubble test answer sheets.  Sdaps is really nice for what it was
> intended for - automated processing of survey forms but I do not see that
> there is much in the way of post processing for individual grading.  I am
> thinking of trying to do this but has anyone else attempted/done this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Terry
>
>
> Terrence Kovacs
> Research Systems Engineer
> Physics and Astronomy Department
> Dartmouth College
> Wilder 341, 603-646-9303
>

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