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Hi,

Using LimeSurvey from v3 and very happy with it. It's in use for several surveys in a school environment.
Now we want to go further and my colleagues request me a sort of test with several questions, each with 3 or 4 answers, only one is OK.
It's an easy request and had it done in minutes but now they want the students to see which questions they failed (or which were OK) at the end of the test.
I think I can't get this behaviour with LS, tried tha assessment system but it works as a global result of the test and can't make out of the answers so I thought about pdfReport could acomplish the task.
I installed and activated it but I need some guidance to generate the html text with the needed tags I could use to replace each question number (or text), and the same for the answers to be able to print if the question was correct or no...
I can't find any document about this, only that you can use the text of the upload question to generate the pdf and nothing about how to replace text from the "survey"
 

Hi,

I think I can't get this behaviour with LS

Of course you can do that.
Use ExpressionScript in the end message.
Here a very small example.



And if I select "Bamako"


with this in the end message (all inline styling removed for more clarity)


And you can use all properties
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...#Access_to_variables [/url]
and all implemented functions
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...mplemented_functions [/url]
of ExpressionScript.

Furthermore you can use all features of bootstrap to improve the appearance.

Here you only display the results at the end of the survey.

If you want to create a pdf report to send it to the participant you can start by entering exactly the same.
And have a look at the demo surveys that are included in the plugin zip file.
 

Joffm
 

Hi Joffm, THANK YOU so much for the clear and nice answer.

I can do that and it solves 99% of my needs. I didn't know about ExpressionScript and it's great news for me!

One final question for you, I was reading all the info (I had to read the manual fully before starting this, sorry about that) about expressionScript but didn't find how to solve one thing.
You wrote:

{if(Q1==2,'This answer is correct','This answer is wrong. The correct answer is "Bamako"')}

I'll be not involved about typing the questions/answers, etc. and sure my folks will want to change them several times, etc. so...
Could I change the number "2" in you expression for the "right" answer number, knowing that the "right" answer is the one that have an assessment value of "1", that way the expression will remain always the same, no need to change something there, and my folks only need to "mark" the right answer with "1" in the field that is shown if you enable assessment mode? And, as a bonus, I will get the assessment system that could add a nice phrase at the end encouraging the students depending on their full test result, I could also do that with expressions now that I know them but, if it's there, let's use them.

I have to thank you again for your help!

Jose
 

You ask to your folks to use 1 for assessment, and you use

www.limesurvey.org/manual/Assessments

And, as a bonus, I will get the assessment system

You should forget this "assessment system".
It is outdated since ExpressionScript was implemented (about 10 years ago)

But "assessment values" may be of importance.

Usually you only use the codes.
But incase you want to weight two or more answer options equal or use negative values you have to use assessment values.

Joffm

 

DenisChenu wrote:

You ask to your folks to use 1 for assessment, and you use

Code:

{if(Q1.valueNAOK==2,'This answer is correct','This answer is wrong. The correct answer is "Bamako"')}

www.limesurvey.org/manual/Assessments

Shouldn't this be:

Because he says the assessment value for the correct answer would be "1", not "2".

Thank you for the amend holch, I already supposed that.
Wow, I'm about to finish the prototype and really happy with the results.
Thank you all for your taking your time to help me.
Would it be possible to store the survey result (only the sum of all ok questions, taking into account that each of them equals to "1" when answered right) in order for the student to take the survey again, with the same token/password, after some weeks and have info about his former results?

Paris

ExpressionScript:
countif("1",Q1.valueNAOK, Q2.valueNAOK,...) to count the correct answers.

Now: open survey or closed survey?

In a closed survey you can use the plugin "updateTokenByResponse" to store this result and display it in a next eave.

But you should explain your planned workflow.

Joffm 

I agree with Joffm. I would be good to know what you exactly mean with this:

and have info about his former results?

Because I assume you don't want to show them what they had answered before, because this wouldn't make much sense, I guess?

Hi guys,
Let me explain the matter. We're a public high school about audiovisual, leading to a Associate Degree (I think this is the correct translation) and we use LS from version 3. We're self hosted so can do anything needed in our LS server.
I'm the IT manager with high extertise in AV systems and not so high but good expertise in IT (today's AV technology is mostly digital so...), so I do as many of us usually... read only the 3 or 4 things you need to get a system up and ready and then the rest come alone with our expertise. But I have to recognise that I didn't read the LS manual at all, only the installation instructions, LS 3 was very, very, intuitive and that was enought for the simple surveys we have been doing from there (some of them using the internal logic for show that quiestion and do not show others, etc) without reading a simple word of the manual and, when facing a problem, read this excellent forum, and find the answer easy.
So, TBH, when my folks told me about doing this kind of tests I thought that they can't be done with LS and didn't read the manual to know if it was possible or not... my fault.
OK that's the situation. Now the needs:

• We need to do several "test", not exactly surveys, with several questions with 3 or 4 answers, only one answer good.
• Each test will have about 20 - 30 questions.
• We'll import our student database and put them in the required tests, asigning each of them a token to access LS, so i understand it's a "closed" survey.
• As there are several groups of students we need several groups of tests so I decided to group the same level and matter tests in a unique test with the first question about "which test do you want to do?" and have access to the test number needed using internal logic.
• We need the students to be able to repeat the tests all the times they could need.

Then come the "extras" that discovered my need of reading the manuals:

• First requeriment is solved, it was how to present the student the result of the test at the end of it. I tried your proposal in a short test to have an idea of how it'll look and feel and works like a champ.
• Second requeriment (and hope the last one) is to record the result of the tests that each student do and present these historic results along with the result of the actual test. Don't need to present which questions were OK or NG, only the calification. IE: After showing all the questions, one by one and saying if they are OK or NG for the actual test, It's easy to calculate a result, if each OK answer equals to "1" and the rest are "0", the sum of all the questions, let's say 20 questions, is the calification. With the Assessment it's easy to do so and present the student a result at the end of the test or it can be done with ExpressionScript. What I'm required to do is to append a "historic result" of this student in this test, something like: "You did the test 5 times, and you got : 15, 12, 18, 19, 17" (I hope this won't scale to "we need the full thing, knowing the OK and NG answers of the historic tests)

Sorry for all the blah, blah, but you asked for it...

Again, need to THANK YOU ALL for your help, time and patience!

Paris

Please find a working example here:  Quiz or assessment? | Respondage

Tammo

In my opinion the mentioned plugin "updateTokenByResponse" should do it.
At the start of the test read this "additional attribute", at the end add the actual result and "update the token"

Example:
After two tests the attribute contains "23,17".
At the start you store it in a question (ResOld) of type "short text", at the end you add the actual result (ResAct)
Join(Resold,",",ResAct)
Now the additional attribute may contain "23,17,12"

With some string functions you can split yhis to display an appealing overview.

​​​​Answered from my phone.
Link to the plugin later

Joffm

gitlab.com/SondagesPro/TokenManagement/updateTokenByResponse

Else : when you want : you can send me offer to create README.md and manual and tips on extensions.sondages.pro/ :)

Hi again,

Thank you all for your support, awesome. I has been out of the city several days and now I'm ready to battle LS again.
I was reading and rereading all the ExpressionScript stuff and will begin with my task of using all your advices today but I was making several test with ExpressionScript and didn't found a thing I need, I begin the survey with a Bootstrap Buttons question (could be another kind of question, but I liked this one) with several buttons labeled 1, 2, 3 and so for the user to select which test he want to do, my colleagues plan to develop several test and the student could try any of them but they want to hide several test to certain students (I'll do that using an extra attribute to know which test to hide for each student) but I can't find how to modify the answers, many options about questions but can't find how to do that, is it possible?

 

What is "modify the answers"?