No grade/ratings for negative total score on the quizzes

  • In the Watu Free I’ve created quizzes that is rewarded with 10 points for right answer, minus 5 points for wrong answers and zero points for “Don’t know”.

    This setup might have the users scoring a negative total on the quizzes. In the standard setup there is no automatic grade for this situation, and as I can see the score ratings (not the individual grades you can setup which you can customize as you wish) starts at 0 %.

    How can one customize to get such a automatic grade/score also for negative totals in the quizzes (I’ve had some of them too!) when only using the standard grades.

    I think there might be some code that should be added to the file “watu/controllers/show_exam.php”?

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  • Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    You can have negative points in the grades. It’s points, not percent, so entering -5 for example is perfectly OK.

    Thread Starter Wompa

    (@wompa)

    I think you maybe misunderstood my point.

    I’m in fact using negative points in the grades, but the problem arises when the sum is negative by lets say minus 20. Then there is no grade assigned to this negative sum, and the participant doesn’t get any grade. If he had scored 0 or +5 he would receive a grade, but not with a large negative sum. It seems like this is due to the grading scale only going down to 0.

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    But the grade scale is not only going to 0. You CAN define grade starting from -20 or -100 points, or whatever you like.

    Thread Starter Wompa

    (@wompa)

    Well, in that case there is a bug in the plugin.

    Whenever a user scores almost any questions wrong and ends up with for instance -15 point, he doesn’t receive any grade. The place for the grading is just empty.

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    I just triple tested it here with a grade that starts with negative points. I received the points and got the proper grade assigned. So there is no bug in the plugin, you need to very carefully check what grades you have defined and how many points the user receives in the end so you can figure it out. Use the %%POINTS%% variable on the final screen to make testing easier.

    Thread Starter Wompa

    (@wompa)

    Seems like we are not talking about the same issue. As stated in the beginning of this thread I’m not talking about the grades you can define yourself, which works fine.

    I’m talking about the grades or scale you have in your file watu/controllers/show_exam.php (as I’ve translated). As I understand this scale comes into place when a user (like me) doesn’t individually configure grades on each exam/quiz (I have several quizzes). I’m using negative points for wrong answers and wanted to just use the default built-in ratings in order to not define it in each quiz. The variable for this grading scale is %%RATING%% and this returns blank. Any other variable is returning exactly what I’m looking for, and I’m in fact using %%POINTS%% etc.

    It seems to me that the issue is that the variable %%RATING%% doesn’t return anything for negative values.

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    You mean the rating? Rating is based on % correct answers, don’t use it for points. I recommend to not use %%RATING%% at all, it’s outdated and unflexible feature. Define your grades instead.

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