-------------------------------------------------------- Principia Products Readme Notes for Remark Classic OMR 2.5.3 Update February 2004 -------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (C) 2004 Principia Products, a division of Gravic, Inc. Thank you for using Remark Classic OMR. The Remark Classic OMR 2.5.3 update adds some new features and corrects a few minor flaws in the initial release. To install the update, double click the Rco253up.exe. The following features have been added to the Remark Classic OMR software since the release of version 2.5: ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1691. ABILITY TO EXPORT COMBINED DATA AND GRADE RESULTS Remark Classic OMR now has the ability to export raw data combined with the student grade results (statistics available on the Respondent Statistics report). The menu options have changed slightly. There are now two export menus: Export Reports and Export Grades. Export Reports contains all of the export options pertaining to reports whereas Export Grades contains all of the export options pertaining to grade results. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1690. GRADE REPORT IMPROVEMENTS The Student Grade Reports have been updated as follows: 1) When using multiple answer keys, the report now displays questions in the same sequence as originally presented to respondents on the test instead of being re-ordered to match the answer key. 2) Added the ability to to show or hide the correct answer (in the Preferences). 3) Added the ability to show or hide the question name (field name) when showing all questions (in the PreferenceS). ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1154. ADVANCED DATA SAVING OPTIONS The ability to save and restore user selections was added to the Advanced window when saving data. This allows you to export certain data to a variety of tables without having to undergo a lot of effort with each export. In addition, the Advanced options have been added to every export format (they were previously only available for database formats). ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1708. ABILITY TO EXPORT REPORTS TO EXCEL The following reports can now be exported directly to the Excel format: Item Statistics Item Analysis Test Statistics Respondent Statistics Frequency Distribution Crosstabs To export a report, select the report and then click File|Export. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1764. ABILITY TO EXPORT GRADE INFORMATION TO PARSCORE The ParSCORE gradebook format has been added to Remark Quick Stats. Grades can be exported directly to ths format via the File|Export menu. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1000. ABILITY TO EXPORT GRADE INFORMATION TO CUSTOM GRADEBOOKS The ability to export to gradebooks not explicitly supported has been added to Remark Quick Stats. A custom export wizard was added to create customized text files that can be imported into various gradebook programs. ------------------------------------------------------------- The following fixes were made: ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1552. AUTO FORMATTING LINKED OMR FIELDS Individual Grid fields within a linked group may now have auto-format attributes. The final output of the linked group will be the concatenation of all individually formatted linked fields. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1540. CUSTOM TEXT WIZARD OUTPUT UPDATE Text qualifiers used within textual fields are now escaped when exporting data using the Custom Text Wizard. For example, if a textual data cell contained: O'Rielly and the text qualified was set to a single quote when saving to a delimited file format using the Custom Text Wizard, the embedded single quote would be escaped with another single quote as follows: 'O''Rielly'. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1395. UPDATED OPTIONS CONFIGURATION You may now update items in the Tools|Options window even when you do not have a valid OMR reader selected. Previously an OMR reader had to be configured properly to update other areas of the Program Options. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1258. REPORT RECORD LENGTH ERROR A problem was corrected where an error #9000 (Overflow) would occur when typing in a five digit number greater than 32,767 for the Report Record Length in the File I/O Options (Tools|Options|File I/O). The Report Record Length is now limited to 3 characters. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1115. NEGATIVE POINT VALUES IN GRADE WIZARD 1) A problem was corrected where you could not store negative fractional values in the Grade Wizard. The software has been corrected to store negative fractional values even when you reopen the grade template. 2) A problem was corrected that occurred if you entered a negative fractional value in the Grade Wizard and the respondent's score was below 0. The total score was displayed in the Respondent Statistics, but no letter grade was displayed (e.g., F for failing or Fail for Pass/Fail). You can now enter a negative value in the Grade Scale and a corresponding grade will be properly displayed. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1709. MORE ROBUST DROP-DOWN LISTS FOR DATABASE VERIFICATION The database lookup drop-down (used in the template grid) list has been modified to support up to 32,767 items. Any list items over 32,767 will not be displayed in the drop-down list. Note: Large data sets will increase the time required to populate the drop-down lists. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1668. GRADE SCALES SAVED PROPERLY IN TEMPLATE EDITOR A problem was corrected where When adding a scale in the template editor the scale was lost once the template editor was closed. ------------------------------------------------------------- Q1644. DEFAULT FILE LOCATIONS PROPERLY SAVED A problem was corrected that occurred if you changed the default template location in the Tools|Options window. When you returned to the Options window, the default template location had been reset. The software will now retain any changes made. If you discover what you think is a potential problem in the Remark Classic OMR software please let us know. You can reach technical support by email at support@principiaproducts.com, fax at +1.610.647.8771, or phone at +1.610.647.8595. And don't forget to visit the Support section of our web site at www.principiaproducts.com/support.html where you will find a wealth of valuable information and solutions to some of the more common problems.