Composing Essay Questions - Alphasmart AS 3000 User Manual

6. Select any of the following options to limit student's responses.
The first two selections apply to automatic grading, while the
third restricts allowable student input:
Case Sensitive. Capitalization in the student's answer must
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match capitalization in the correct answer.
Case Insensitive. It doesn't matter whether students use
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capital or lower case letters in their answers.
Only numbers for student input. The answer only allows the
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number 0–9, the minus sign (–), and the period (.).
7. Type any comments about the question in the Question Remarks
field at the bottom of the window.
8. Click OK when you're done. The question appears in the Quiz
Questions window listing.
9. Repeat steps 1 through 8 to compose more short answer
questions.

Composing essay questions

Essay questions allow students to give a prose answer. You can set a
maximum number of words allowed; essay questions must be graded
manually.
To write an essay question:
1. With your named quiz open, click Add Question in the Quiz
Questions window.
2. Select Essay question in the Add Question window.
3. Click OK.
4. Type the text of your question in the Question Text field at the top
of the Essay Question window.
Creating Quizzes
Composing questions
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