Questions with Weighting?

[johnnorton]

Using Activotes is it possible to assign weighting to responses?

An example question could be:

'Put the following in order of priority':

A) Health
B) Education
C) Housing
D) Employment

1st response would get 10 points, 2nd response would get 7 points, 3rd response would get 4 and the 4th response would get 1 point.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks, John.

[sartley]

I can't see an easy way to do this. But here is a suggestion - not instant, but once you had set this up once, you could easliy cut and paste into other spreadsheets, altering the formulae where required. If you were to export the results of your test/quiz to Excel, you could set up a series of additional columns containing formulae so that if student 1 votes A (Health), then in column X (or whatever) that would return 10. In column Y, you could have the scores for the next question and so on and in your final column, you could set a formula to add them up if required.

If you're not sure and have a spreadsheet you could post to the forum, I could offer extra help.

[Peter Lambert]

What Sharon suggests is fine for weighting questions with just one response, which the Activotes will do. By the look of your question you are looking for 4 responses in order. It is not possible to do this at present. We are working on more sophisticated voting and assessment, but this is some way off in the future.