All of the JCE questions are very interesting, but I can not see a single answer choice. Questions stems are great, but if they are a multple choice question, it would be great to have the answer choices as well.
I should have guessed this would be the first question. :)
Many teachers have expressed reluctance to share their questions in a way that allows students to see the answers. My hope is that eventually there will be so many questions and answers available that a student wouldn't have any hope of memorizing them, and if they were to study them well enough to perform better on an exam or homework, that would mean they were actually learning. So perhaps eventually all the answers will be visible.
In the meantime, contributors must be allowed to hide their answers from students. Right now this is a very broad permission. Either you can see no answers, or if the system knows you're a teacher, you can see all the answers. On the drawing board is a mechanism whereby each question can be set to reveal or hide answers from users who are not known to be teachers. And after that I'd like to allow teachers to share the answers with people they trust, rather than having the system to police who is a teacher and isn't.
So that's the long answer to your question. The short answer is, you can see the answers now as I've marked you as a "certified teacher" in the system!
Is it however possible to only show the alternatives, but not show which of them is correct? I find it very hard to rate questions now as you don't have any alternatives.. (say, how do you rate "Which of the following statements is true?")
Other than that, this can have a lot of potential!
hi Vegard, thanks for the support!
I talked with the ChemDL people and I had misunderstood their requirement. Yes, we can show the answer alternatives and I just updated the system to do that.
Please keep the feedback coming!
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I should have guessed this would be the first question. :)
Many teachers have expressed reluctance to share their questions in a way that allows students to see the answers. My hope is that eventually there will be so many questions and answers available that a student wouldn't have any hope of memorizing them, and if they were to study them well enough to perform better on an exam or homework, that would mean they were actually learning. So perhaps eventually all the answers will be visible.
In the meantime, contributors must be allowed to hide their answers from students. Right now this is a very broad permission. Either you can see no answers, or if the system knows you're a teacher, you can see all the answers. On the drawing board is a mechanism whereby each question can be set to reveal or hide answers from users who are not known to be teachers. And after that I'd like to allow teachers to share the answers with people they trust, rather than having the system to police who is a teacher and isn't.
So that's the long answer to your question. The short answer is, you can see the answers now as I've marked you as a "certified teacher" in the system!
Only show alternatives, not which is right or wrong?
hia Turadg, great to see this site taking form!
Is it however possible to only show the alternatives, but not show which of them is correct? I find it very hard to rate questions now as you don't have any alternatives.. (say, how do you rate "Which of the following statements is true?")
Other than that, this can have a lot of potential!
Now showing alternatives
hi Vegard, thanks for the support!
I talked with the ChemDL people and I had misunderstood their requirement. Yes, we can show the answer alternatives and I just updated the system to do that.
Please keep the feedback coming!