Tag: exams
How can a student get more than 100% in a test?
November 25th, 2010 at 09:11
When reviewing the results of a student test, I saw that one student had got over 100%. Is this a super intelligent student or was TouchStone being very generous? Looking at the stored data for the paper it could be seen that questions had been removed from the paper after the paper had been made [...]
What happens if there is a power cut in an online exam?
November 22nd, 2010 at 08:11
I have seen papers that have all questions on one screen which could result in the loss of all student responses. If you organise your paper well you can reduce the amount of data that could potentially be lost if there is a major technical failure. Exam papers should be split across a number of [...]
Using images in TouchStone questions
November 21st, 2010 at 10:11
Images can be used to show information or can be an essential part of a question such as the image hotspot and labelling question types. When using images, you need to consider the physical size of the image (how it will appear on screen) as well as the file size. The graphic below shows the [...]
Help! I’ve lost my question
November 19th, 2010 at 01:11
There have been a few new TouchStone users that have reported mysterious disappearances of questions. In fact when the same users are shown how to search for a question, they see that they are saved in the question bank. Why did they think that the questions had vanished? When you create a new question you [...]