Help For Teachers


Viewing Results

When one of your Students completes an exercise, the results are automatically sent to the hotpotatoes.net web server for storage. You can then look at these results in the Account Management Page.

When you use the Account Management Page to list the classes, students or exercises you have stored on the hotpotatoes.net system, you will see a "Results" link at the right-hand end of each row in the list - clicking on this link will show you a list of results for the relevant class, student or exercise.

For example, if you choose Classes, you will see Results links like those highlighted on a yellow background below:

Classes
Class Name Exercises Students      
1st Year No exercises in this class. 0 Edit Delete Results
2nd Year Things can only get better
Parking is such sweet sorrow
Never Say Never
One Day at a Time
8 send email Edit Delete Results
Final Year

Too Many Cooks
Parking is such sweet sorrow 2
A Really Hard Test

15 send email Edit Delete Results
Create a new class

...and clicking Results will show you a list of the results for the class.

Likewise you can choose to view results for each Exercise, or for each Student. A table of results for a particular exercise might look like this:

Exercise Results for 'Too Many Cooks'
Student Name Mark Submitted Duration
Fred Smith 68 30 Oct 2001 09:17 0:06:26 More information...
Yoko Fujiyama 83 31 Oct 2001 11:21 0:09:14 More information...
Dipak Patel 76 30 Oct 2001 23:22 0:07:07 More information...
None unsubmitted.

This shows that three students have each done the exercise once. It shows the date and time at which the exercise was completed, and the time (hours, minutes and seconds) which the student took to complete it. You can click the "More Information" link to see all the information stored for any particular completed exercise. The complete result includes a comment which the student can enter after completing the exercise:

Full Exercise Result
Student Name: Fred Smith
Class First Year Remedial French
Exercise Title: Too Many Cooks
Exercise Type: Webrhubarb
Submitted: 08 Dec 2001 06:01
Time Taken by Student: 0:04:11
Mark Scored: 68
Student Comments: I found this exercise rather difficult. Don't you have anything easier?
Student's Computer Hostname pc23.lab2.call.college.edu
Student's Computer IP Address 1.2.3.4

Your students can see their own results when they log in, but they do not see all the information which the teacher can see, and they are not allowed to see other students' results.

Downloading Results

On each results page, there is a button labelled "Download These Results". If you click this button, the results on the page will be generated as a CSV ("comma-separated values") file, and downloaded automatically onto your computer.

You can then open the file in a spreadsheet program (such as Microsoft's "Excel"), where you should see all the result information laid out in rows and columns.

Exercises Not Submitted

When you view the results for an exercise or a student, in addition to the recorded marks, the screen will also show unsubmitted results for the exercise or student. For more information about unsubmitted exercises, please see the Cheating page.