Walking you through your first Plom test

On these pages we will walk you through running a simple piece of assessment using Plom. You will need to know the basic plom components and have a rough understanding of the plom workflow. You also need to have installed Plom.

The scenario

We will assume that you need to give a short 3-question test in two small sections of a course. Since there are two sections and the rooms are quite crowded, you will give 2 versions of the test. We will explain how Plom can interleave different versions of the test to actually create $2^3 = 8$ different tests.

Creating a test
Initialising the server
Running the server
Creating a spec
Uploading a classlist
Building PDFs
Uploading scans
Clients and marking
Manager tools
After marking
Archiving

Walking you through your first Plom test

The scenario

Creating your test(s)

Initializing the server

Running the server

Creating a test spec

Uploading a classlist

Building PDFs

Scanning and uploading

Getting your markers up and running

Managing the process

After marking — spreadsheets, reassembly, and return

Archiving and cleaning up

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