Qualitative Problems
the QualitativeProblem
class indicates that a code block will contain
qualitative problems, either short-answer or multiple choice questions.
Short Answer
To create a short-answer problem, use the class ShortAnswer
, and simply
provide a short answer question, like so:
```{.QualitativeProblem .ShortAnswer}
1.1 How are you feeling today?
```
The number indicates the exercise number. This is immediately followed by the question. The result will be:
Student submissions to short-answer prompts will be recorded, but by default
will not be assigned any credit. They will, however, be visible in the review
section for the assignment, so it will be possible to assign them partial
credit, as if they were an exam problem. The behavior for awarding credit can
also be configured with the give-credit
option, see Advanced Usage below.
Multiple Choice
To create a multiple-choice problem, use the class MultipleChoice
, and
provide a question along with a set of answers (one per line), like so:
```{.QualitativeProblem .MultipleChoice}
1.2 How are you feeling today?
| Good!
| +OK!
| Meh.
```
The answers should be typed as you want them to be displayed. Carnap doesn't
currently render formulas or LaTeX within multiple choice answers, and HTML
escape codes like ∨
will cause some trouble for the answer-parser. If you
want to include a formula with symbols, just use the symbols directly in the
answer. You can copy-paste from here: ¬,→,∧,∨,∀,∃.
Answers marked with a +
or a *
will be accepted as correct. Answers marked
with a -
or a +
will be pre-selected. So the result of the above is:
Which has "OK!" preselected and just one correct answer, namely "OK!".
Multiple Selection
To create a multiple-selection problem, use the class MultipleSelection
,
To create a multiple-choice problem, use the class MultipleChoice
, and
provide a question along with a set of answers (one per line), like so:
```{.QualitativeProblem .MultipleSelection}
1.2 How are you feeling today?
| - Bad!
| + OK!
| * I contain multitudes.
```
As above, answers should be typed as you want them displayed.
Answers marked with a +
or a *
must be selected for a correct answer, and
other answers must not be selected. Answers marked with a -
or a +
will be
pre-selected. So the result of the above is:
Numerical
To create a numerical problem, use the class .Numerical
and provide a
question and answer, in the format ANSWER : QUESTION
, optionally pre-filling
with hint written below the question, like so:
```{.QualitativeProblem .Numerical}
1.3 8 : How many bits in a byte?
| 2^3
```
The above produces:
Answers must be given as decimal expressions or fractions (so, the above 23 won't be accepted without being evaluated). They'll be saved as decimal expressions.
Advanced Usage
Options and Attributes
In addition to allowing for turning off submission with submission="none"
,
qualitative problems also have the following options.
Name | Effect |
---|---|
exam |
Allows for submission of work which is incomplete or incorrect |
check |
Adds a button which checks results without submitting |
This won't have any effect on a short-answer question, since there's no notion
of "correct" to apply. Qualitative questions also permit assigning custom point
values with the points=VALUE
, like most other graded problems.
Short answer questions also accept a give-credit
option, which has the
following available settings
Name | Effect |
---|---|
onSubmission |
Counts all submissions as correct |
so, adding give-credit="onSubmisson"
to a short answer question will award
credit automatically for any submission.
For more complicated formatting of multiple choice and multiple selection
options, you can also use the content-format
option, which has the following
available settings
Name | Effect |
---|---|
html |
Applies html tags that appear in the answer options |
So, for example, one can write:
```{.QualitativeProblem .MultipleChoice options="check" content-format="html"}
1. "Truth" is:
| a <b>propery</b> of propositions
| a logical <b>object</b>
| *A five-letter word
```
to generate