Sample contents of the scanned OMR answers file
+- Note that text in italics is just for information and should not be a part of the file.
+
+username name variant_no answerstring
+
+0957001 ABHAY KUMAR 4321ACAAADACDAA
+0957002 AGARWAL CHETNA 4321ACAADDAAADD
+0957003 SATISH BHIKAJI BELOSE 4321ACAACAACBAA
+0957004 FARHAN PATEL 4321ACBBAAACDDB
+0957005 AKSHAT GILL 4321DCAABDADDCC
+
+Information for Configuration File
+
+variantcount:1
+rollnoposition:1
+variantposition:51
+ansposition:55
+rollnolength:7
+variantlength:4
+
+
+- Note that text in italics is just for information and should not be a part of the file.
+
+name username variant no answer string
+
+ABHAY KUMAR d0957001 43215 ACAAADACDAA
+AGARWAL CHETNA d0957002 43215 ACAADDAAADD
+SATISH BHIKAJI BELOSE d0957003 43215 ACAACAACBAA
+FARHAN PATEL d0957004 43215 ACBBAAACDDB
+AKSHAT GILL d0957005 43215 DCAABDADDCC
+
+Information for Configuration File
+
+variantcount:1
+rollnoposition:32
+variantposition:48
+ansposition:61
+rollnolength:8
+variantlength:5
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+Uploading scanned OMR answer sheet data file:
+
+- Click on the "OMR" tab then click on answers tab. Now an upload form will appear on the screen.
+- Click on "Browse" under "import from file upload" section and click "upload this file" to upload the scanned OMR answers file present on your file system
OR
+Click on "choose or upload a file" under "import from file already in course files.." section and click "import from this file" to import the scanned OMR answers file that is already present in files area of Moodle.
+
+Answer files uploaded earlier can also be uploaded again.
+
Refer to section Retrieving earlier uploaded answer data
+Note: The uploaded answers are automatically saved in Moodle's files area in a directory named "answers" under another directory having name as the name of the quiz for which the answers are uploaded.
+So do not use the characters as mentioned in the section "creating an OMR quiz" for naming the quiz.
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+Retrieving earlier uploaded answer data:
+For retrieving the answer data file already uploaded to Moodle's files area:
+- go to the course under which this quiz is present.
+- click on "Files" present in the administration block.
+- click on folder with the name as the name of the quiz of which you want to access the uploaded answer data file.
+- click the "Answers" folder and select the file that you want to retrieve.
+
+Note: If a file is uploaded more than once using OMR system's answers upload then these uploaded files are renamed as given below.
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+ File name answers
+ 1st upload:- answer
+ 2nd upload:- answers_1
+ 3rd upload:- answers_2 and so on
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+ so detecting the latest uploaded file becomes easy.
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diff -Naur moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrattempts.html moodle_omrquiz/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrattempts.html
--- moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrattempts.html 1970-01-01 05:30:00.000000000 +0530
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+Processing and Viewing Offline Attempts:
+
+Processing of offline attempt data:
+When you are sure that all the uploaded records from scanned OMR data file are correct you can process and evaluate these records. These correct records are also called offline attempts.
+
+- For processing the answers data
+- Click on the OMR tab then click on “process attempts” tab. A list of correct and incorrect records will be displayed.
+- Click on “process” button to process the correct records. System will process the correct records and will navigate to results page.
+
+Note: Avoid processing of uploaded records until all the uploaded records are correct.
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+Viewing the results of offline attempts:
+To see the results of offline attempts click on the quiz then click on the results tab. You can see attempt of each student collectively or for a particular question by clicking on the total grade he/she got or the grade he /she got in a particular question.
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diff -Naur moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrattendance.html moodle_omrquiz/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrattendance.html
--- moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrattendance.html 1970-01-01 05:30:00.000000000 +0530
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+Attendance for Offline Quiz
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+Attendance for OMR quiz is not compulsory.
+
But if you upload attendance for an OMR quiz then you have an option to test the validity of the students against this attendance also apart from regular validation against enrollment for the course.
+
+Structure of the Attendance File:
+
+ Attendance file have roll numbers(Username in Moodle) one at each line like
+
username1
+ username2
+ username3
+ ...
+ ...
+ ...
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+Uploading Attendance:
+- Click on the "OMR" tab and then click on "Attendance" tab.
+- Click on "Browse" under "import from file upload" section and click "upload this file" to upload the attendance file present on your file system.
+OR
+Click on "choose or upload a file" under "import from file already in course files.." section and click "import from this file" to import the attendance file that is already present in files area of Moodle.
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+Validating users against Attendance list
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+- If you upload attendance after uploading the answers file then a checkbox will appear at the bottom of attendance list saying "Check student validity against attendence list".
+- Click on the checkbox to validate the users against the attendance list.
+- Unclick it to validate against course enrollment only.
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diff -Naur moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrconfigupload.html moodle_omrquiz/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrconfigupload.html
--- moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrconfigupload.html 1970-01-01 05:30:00.000000000 +0530
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+Creating and Uploading the OMR Sheet Configuration File
+
+Creating OMR Sheet Configuration File
+
+ The configuration file contains certain parameters that helps in flexible extraction of offline quiz attempt data from the scanned "OMR" answer sheet data file.
+
+ For structure and contents of configuration file refer to "Structure of configuration file", "Contents of the configuration file" and "Example of OMR Configuration file".
+
+ Configuration file can be created based on the structure of offline attempt (scanned OMR) data file. Based on that file various parameters of configuration file are decided. Currently OMR quiz requires the offline quiz attempt data in a Standard format
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+1. Structure of "OMR" Configuration File:
+
name_of_the_parameter:value_of_the_parameter
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+2. Contents of the Configuration File:
+ Following are the contents of the configuration file (order of the parameter must be same as shown in table and example):
+
+Parameter | Value required |
+
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+variantcount |
+Number of Variants required for the OMR Quiz |
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+rollnoposition |
+Position of roll number in scanned OMR File. |
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+variantposition |
+Position of the Variant number in scanned OMR File |
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+ansposition |
+Position of the answer string in scanned OMR File |
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+rollnolength |
+Length of the Roll number |
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+variantlength |
+Length of the Variant number |
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+3. Example of OMR Configuration file:
+
+variantcount:4
+rollnoposition:1
+variantposition:40
+ansposition:44
+rollnolength:4
+variantlength:4
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+Note:
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- Configuration file should be a simple text file. Any other complex format such as MS Word etc will not work.
+- Configuration file must not contain space after and before the parameter name and value. Also,each parameter must be listed in new line.
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+Uploading OMR Configuration File:
+
+
+- Click on the "OMR" tab. System will ask for OMR configuration upload if the configuration file is
+not already uploaded.
+
+- Click on "Browse" under "import from file upload" section and click "upload this file" to upload the
+configuration file present on your file system.
+
OR
+Click on "Choose or upload a file" under "import from file already in course files.." section and click
+ "import from this file" to import the configuration file that is already present in files area of Moodle.
+
+- If you are re uploading the OMR configuration file involving a change in the parameter
+"variantcount" then a warning will be shown that:
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+Note:
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- "If you change the OMR configuration then all the existing
+answer data and user attempts made on that
+data for this OMR quiz will be erased."
- Click "Yes" if you intend to do so. Click "No" otherwise.
- After the file upload, contents of the file are displayed on the screen.
- Click on the "Continue" button to decide the variants of quiz.
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diff -Naur moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrdiagnostics.html moodle_omrquiz/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrdiagnostics.html
--- moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrdiagnostics.html 1970-01-01 05:30:00.000000000 +0530
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+Analysis and Correcting the Answer Sheet Data:
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+Analysis of uploaded OMR answer sheet data:
+Answer data analysis is done for detecting problems with the uploaded records. There are two types of analysis available for uploaded answer data.
+- Record wise analysis:
When you upload the answer data then the system automatically performs the analysis and shows it record by record. If answers were already uploaded then just click the “upload answers” tab to see the record wise analysis of answer data.
+- Error category wise analysis:
Under the “upload answers” tab click on the “diagnostics:” list and choose “category wise” and click on “show” button.
+Diagnostics will be shown based on error category.
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+Corrective actions on answer data:
+After detecting the problems with the uploaded data you can go and manually change a copy of Scanned OMR data file.
+After seeing the diagnostics the user should manually change the problematic records in the scanned answers file and re upload that file to system.
+For re uploading an answer file go to “upload answers” tab and click on the “change” button present at the bottom of the page and follow the procedure as described in “Upload answers” section above.
+NOTE: Do not change original scanned OMR data file. Always make a copy of it and do the changes on that file.
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diff -Naur moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrvariant.html moodle_omrquiz/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrvariant.html
--- moodle/lang/en_utf8/help/quiz/omrvariant.html 1970-01-01 05:30:00.000000000 +0530
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+OMR Variant
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+Creating Variants:
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+ - Generating Variant Numbers:
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+ - Click on the "OMR" tab and then "Variants" tab.
+ - If not created already, based on the "OMR" configuration parameter "variantcount" that many number of variants will be created automatically with empty "Variant No" field and a default question sequence in "Question Sequence" field. This is the sequence of the questions as present in the master quiz.
+
Note: in the question sequence field each question is represented by its unique id.
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+ - Enter the desired variant number for each of the Variants, if not done already and click on "save changes" button.
+ Note: Variant numbers are unique for a quiz.
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+ - Deciding Question Sequence for each Variant :
+ There are three options for deciding question sequence for a variant :
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+ - Change sequence directly from the text area by placing the question ids at desired place. The sequence should be comma separated with a 0 at the end of the sequence.
Note: "0" denotes Page Break.
+ - Automatic Shuffle: For shuffling the question sequence click on the “shuffle” button.
+ Click on the “save changes” button to save the changes made by shuffling the questions.
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+ - Manual Shuffle: For shuffling questions manually click on the “manual shuffle” button. Use up and down arrows to move a question up and down.
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+ - Adding page breaks:
A page break after a question means the next question will appear on a new page. Page breaks can be added in the question sequence by two ways :
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+ - Page break in "question sequence" text area: Add a "0" in the "Question Sequence" text area at the desired place and click on "save changes" button.
+ - Page break using "Manual Shuffle" :
click on "manual shuffle" button then click on "show page breaks" and use up arrow present against last page break to introduce a new page break. Then place it at the desired place using up and down arrows.
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+Printing Variants:
+- If Variants are already created then the variants can be viewed and printed :
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+ - Click on "preview" link present against the variant that you wish to preview. A printable version of the variant will be presented on the screen.
+- Now click on your browser's print preview option to see the layout of the questions along with page breaks. You can go back and adjust the question sequence or page break position if layout is not proper.
+- Click on your web browser's print button to get a hard copy of the quiz paper.
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