RE: [Aimmath-developers] Multipart questions ... a little trap

[Gustav W D. <gu...@ma...>]

> Initially, I thought that perhaps some extra code should be included to
> prevent a student from answering later parts if the former parts were
> not already answered, but I think there are plenty of cases where it
> makes sense for students to answer the parts in any order ... so the
> quiz coder just needs to be aware of the potential problem and write
> questions accordingly.

I am strongly in favour of imposing the requirement on the student to answer
the parts of a multi-part question in the correct order. I would be happy to
have this requirement on all multi-part questions. I do not quite see the
need for multi-part questions that can be answered in any order. Even in
those cases where it would make sense to answer them in any order, what is
wrong with following the given order? So I think the AiM code should be
changed. Writing AiM questions is complicated enough as it is, having to put
in extra checks into the question code is not desirable.

What do others think?

Many thanks to Greg for discovering this issue.

Gustav