Clic reporting system

The evaluated items are:

- Time used

- Number of attempts

- Number of correct answers

- Whether an activity has been solved or not

- Precision obtained. This value is calculated as follows:

a) First of all, the minimum amount of attempts necessary to solve the activity is calculated, which we will call "n".

b) If the activity has been solved, "n" is divided by the number of attempts made by the user.

c) If the activity has not been solved, the square of the correct answers is divided by the product between "n" and the attempts made.

In both cases the result is multiplied by 100 to express it in percentage form.

A list of the values of these five items for each activity done can be accessed through the Reports - Show current report menu. A summary of the session, with the totals and average precision obtained can be found at the bottom of the window.

Certain activities are never evaluated or taken into account for the totals and averages. These are the information screens, explore mode associations and, in general, any activity where the Include in user reports box in Activity options is not marked. It is important to unmark this box when creating activities that should not count in the global report, for example: an association used as a menu to select different packs (like the MENUACT.ASS file in the Clic demo); or a text activity that is only used to present information (e.g. the NOU02.TXA file in the demo).

The reports can be saved in a database. The system can work on a network so that the results accumulate in a common database for the whole classroom, independently of where the student sits in each session. You can find detailed instructions for configuring the reporting system on a network in the appendix of the Clic manual.

To register the reports in a database you have to go to Global options and mark the Register activity reports box. You also have to say where the information file is located, which is normally called CLICDB.MDB and found in the Clic folder or, if the computer is linked to a network, in a shared folder that can be written in.