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	Of the four question types supported by QuizMaster, only one (the open-ended) type cannot be marked automatically. First, though, let's trace the steps required to mark open-ended questions. Step one. Select the Edit Results button from QuizMaster Central. You will then be asked to select the test from the usual Open File dialogue box. At this point, you need to make some choices. Here's what you'll see: [Top of Page] Since QuizMaster allows students to resit tests, it has to keep their original scores separate from their subsequent followup test scores. These followup scores are stored in a separate location, and every time a student returns to complete his/her remaining questions, these results get overwritten. Finally, there are no more questions outstanding, and the student will be notified of this. They test cycle is now over. The latest state of the followup test can always be viewed by selecting the Followup' button. However, you will probably be more interested in the students' original test scores. Click OK, and you will see the following:


	[Top of Page] What you see here is the breakdown of the test. If you divided your test into different question areas, or sections, or (in Kiwi-speak, different performance criterea'), each of these sections will have been marked individually, with their scores shown separate from the other section scores. In the test above, only one section was used (the default Main' section). You can have up to eight sections/question areas/performance criterea in a test. Then you see the combined (or total) score, followed by whether or not the student passed the test, You can set an arbitrary pass mark in the Author Module. This is followed by an indication of whether or not this student's test has been marked. If the test consisted only of Multi-Choice, True/False and Missing word-type questions, a T' will appear in this cell. In the example above, the cell is blank, indicating that there are open-ended questions to mark. Finally, the NZQA' column tells you if the student has finally passed ALL questions. ((s)he might need to revisit the test several times before answering all questions correctly). Now it's time to mark those open-ended questions...



	[Top of Page] Apart from the obligatory dynamic statistics which appear in various boxes at the top of the screen, the real interest is in the three text boxes at the bottom. First, there is the Student's answer box. On the right is the question box, and under it is the Model answer box. QuizMaster closely mimics what real teachers do with paper-based marking. In the paper-scenarion, you would compare the student's answer with your model answer, and tick with a red pen anything worthy of a mark. The only difference with QuizMaster is that instead of a TICK you CLICK... A little red tick appears where you clicked, and QuizMaster recalculates both the section' score and the total score. To remove a tick, click IMMEDIATELY in front of an existing tick. It will be erased, and the scores decremented.