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Statement question

Brooke Henshall
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The statement question is a question type that contains two or more statements and most often has a limited amount of options like true/false or yes/no. The grading of these statements is done with response rules which allows you to set the the awarded points based on the number of correct statements. A commonly used statement rule set is the Kprime rules, which is easy to use with the statement question type.

How to create a statement question

  1. Create an assignment. 
  2. Click New exercise, fill in a title and click Save.
  3. Click New question, select Statement and click Save.
  4. Fill in the question description.
  5. Enter the amount of points that should be awarded in the Points* box
  6. To add the statement options, click +Add row. Click +Add row to add more statement options.
  7. To add your statement responses, click +Add column. Click +Add column to add more statement responses.
  8. Click Save.
  9. If preferred, you can also set the Fixed starting position. This allows you to fill in the position of the answer options, e.g. (1, 2, 3). 
  10. Click the more_vert-icon at the top of the question for other various options.
  11. Click Save.


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Options for a Statement question:

  • Bonus
    This marks the question as a bonus question.

  • Skippable 
    This question will not be taken into account for the grades of exempt students.

How to add a grading scheme to a statement question

  1. Click Grading scheme in the switch at the top.
  2. Go to the question for which you want to set the grading scheme.
  3. Click the more_horiz-icon and click Edit. 
  4. It is optional to fill in feedback that is shown when the results are published for:
    • completely correct answers.
    • not completely correct answers. 
    • incorrect answers.
  5. Select the correct answers by clicking the circle buttons.
  6. Click +Add response rules or +Add Kprime rules. This will be explained in detail below.
  7. To add extra response rules, click +Add response rules
  8. You can use the Calculate points-button to calculate the maximum points. The points of all the statements will be summed up automatically. Alternatively, you can manually set the maximum number of points. 
  9. Click Save.


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Options for grading:

  • Grading description
    A solution for the reviewers (and for students when published). The grading description can be an extensive elaboration, an image, or a file.

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