How to contribute self-paced questions
This form allows you (or anyone else at present) to
contribute a question to a new or exisitng page of questions.
(Because of the problems with present forms-based browsers,
please do NOT contribute more than about EIGHT questions
per page - thank-you). Also please try to choose meaningful
names for the question pages.
At present a question consists of four fields (not all are
always meaningful):
- The question to be asked (can include URL's to other
pages or gifs)
- The type of choice for the student:
- SELECT. ('Multiple choice').
The student can select ONE choice from a list of possible answers.
The answers will be displayed as a menu (pull-down in Mosaic).
- CHECKBOX. The student can select as many answers are you wish from
a list by checking the boxes.
- INPUT. The students must type a word (or a phrase) into
an entry box and this will be chacked against a 'correct'
answer.
- TEXTAREA. The student can type a sentence or two into a
TEXTAREA box and compare this with a 'model' answer.
- RADIO. (Essentially the same as SELECT, but with
different layout (fields can be checked with a radiobutton).
- NONE. The student's answer cannot be input at this stage
of technology (e.g. they might have to draw something). An answer
will, however, be presented.
- A set of choices for the student (only meaningful for SELECT,
RADIO and CHECKBOX). These choices are words or phrases and could
include URL's or gifs.
- The 'answer'. This should have the precise wording as in any
list of choices, as the phrases will be compared (except for
spaces and capitalisation). The answer can also contain gifs or
URL's.
Notes
- If you use URL's or gifs, give the FULL address including
server. (The cgi process treats local relative addresses in a different
way from the browsers and it is easy to get confused).
- If your answer list contains phrases, include them in double
quotes ("). ("Alpha Helix" "Beta sheet"). Be patient with problems
here :-).
- Avoid verbose questions and answers as the formatting may be horrid.
- In principle you can include HTML markups in the question, but make
sure you have the punctuation right.
- Don't use lots of punctuation characters where you don't
have to - they may not all get translated at present (e.g.
perl scripts).
- These questions are NOT MONITORED by me, but it is up to you
whether you wish to add that feature yourself. In that case you
might wish to add a field for student ID.
- At present there is no way for YOU to delete a question from
a page that you don't own. This is a people problem, not a technical
one. If you get a question wrong, I suggest you add another one that
is correct with a short message to explain.
Have fun.
Up to CBMT
Sept 17 1994,
Peter Murray-Rust