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Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

by Michael Gage -
Number of replies: 5

Due to COVID-19 we are rushing classes to online format. 

I am ahead of everybody because I have Webwork for homework but never used it for exams. 

Q.  to conduct an exam, I made up 3 different exams, now I want to assign these to different students, say I divide my class into 3 groups. how do I do that?    -- I only know how to assign homework, necte used tests (if there is such a thing). 
 
Ever J. Barbero, Ph.D., F.ASME, F.SAMPE

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Re: Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

by Alex Jordan -
You could use the Classlist Editor to assign each student to a "Section", say "A", "B", and "C". Then you could use the Instructor Tools to filter only students in "Section A" and assign one exam to them. And so on.
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Re: Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

by Paul Vojta -
I (or actually someone else, on whose behalf I am asking) am planning on using this approach to assign different tests to two different groups of students in a 500-student course.
However, in the "Instructor Tools" page, there seems to be no way of selecting all displayed students. Does anybody see a way around this? (I'm willing and able to hack the source code to do this.)
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Re: Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

by Michael Gage -
Using command-A doesn't work (it selects all elements of the whole page, not the list). However shift-click will select a range and
command click will select a collection of students from the list. (this is on a mac -- translate the control keys for windows and unix)
Works for me.
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Re: Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

by Paul Vojta -
Thanks! (I'd forgotten about shift-click.)
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Re: Assigning differen quizzes to different groups of students

by Danny Glin -
WeBWorK offers the Gateway Quiz Mode intended for timed exams.

If you are looking to randomize the questions on the exam (beyond just the randomization within a given WeBWorK problem), then you can also use the Problem Group functionality within a Gateway Quiz.  This would allow you to assign one set to all students, but different students would get different questions.