7/1/2009

GUIDELINES
FOR SCANTRON GRADING WITH
The LXR-OPSCAN 6

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. PREPARATION

2. CREATING A FILE FOLDER

3. IMPORTING ANSWER KEY AND GRADING RESPONSES

4. PRINTING REPORTS

5. ADDITIONAL COURSES

**NOTE: total expected time commitment is roughly two hours for items 1, 2, 3, and the time to
complete items 4 and 5 varies by volume.

 1. PREPARATION

The following guidelines require basic knowledge of Windows operations. Instructions are
provided for scoring tests and reporting results using the Blue General Purpose Answer Sheet form
no. 4521 with the OpScan 6 scanner located in 7-240D. Blank answer key and student response
forms are available from your department or West Campus Word Processing department.

Before planning to grade your scantron tests contact us in advance to determine availability, access
and special materials needs. Please contact Hanh Le X1721, Josh Murdock X1757, Carol Thompson
X1780 or Aditi Batra X1720 if you have questions or suggestions regarding this document and/ or
OpScan 6 scanner usage.

MATERIALS

Please have the following materials ready:

A completed scantron answer key for each version of your test,
Student scantron answer sheets to be scored:
o must be clearly and accurately marked using #2 pencil,
o must have students names and VIDs completed,
o should be sorted by CRN and test version,
o should have any other instructor required test identification information.

EQUIMENT
Turn on the computer, printer and scanner. The computer monitor should display the Novel login
screen. At the user name prompt enter "administrator" and at the password prompt enter
"v@lenc!a" to login.

2. CREATING A FILE FOLDER

The first time you use the LXR Test Scanning Software you will need to create a personal instructor
folder to store your data. Create sub-folders for additional courses to further organize your data.

1. Double click my computer,

2. Create your personal folder in the c- drive,
3. Create sub-folders for different CRNs/ test versions,
4. Close screen.

 3. IMPORTING ANSWER KEY AND GRADING RESPONSES

1. Double-click the LXRTEST 6.0 Icon on the Desktop,

2. Click Scores [LXR side toolbar],

3. Select Create a New Scores database, and click OK,

4. Click the drop down menu; browse for your personal folder, double click to open,

5. At the File Name prompt, insert the name of the test in front of the given file name,

6. Click Save.

FORM SETUP
1. Click Reader on the top toolbar,

2. Select Reader and Form Setup,

3. At the Reader Setup tab select NCS and OpScan 6,

4. At Form Setup tab select Scantron form number [default is #4521],

5. Select Apply [if other form number],

6. Accept all other defaults,

7. Select OK,

8. Place answer key in scanner face-up and horizontally flush with front and side edge
of scanner tray

Return to Reader option [top of menu]

Select Read Answer Key.

9. Expect Read Answer Key Form window to display. Continue below.

QUESTION AND TEST BANKS

The following steps provide the location of a Receiving Bank and Receiving Test created by
LXR*TEST to enable later retrieval. Do not accept the two defaults, instead:

1. At the Receiving Bank prompt

click create
browse to your specific folder
at the File Name prompt, insert the name of the test in front of the given
file name,
click save.
2. At the Receiving Test prompt
click browse
browse to your specific folder,
at the File Name prompt, insert the name of the test in front of the given
file name.
click Save.

3. At the Default Objective prompt

Type the word QUESTION [each will appear as QUESTION 1, QUESTION 2,
on your student reports].

4. Select Read Form.

5. Close out all windows [returning to the Scores Screen].

GRADING TESTS

Once the answer key is scanned, the LXR program creates two files: *. LXRBank and
*. LXRTest.
Close windows to return to the Score file window,
Load student response forms the same way as the answer key,
Select Read Response Forms from the Reader option at the top.

When all students response forms are scanned successfully, select Score (Grade) from the
Score menu at the top. You are now ready to print reports.

 4. PRINTING REPORTS

1. Go to File

2. Select Print

3. Choose Score Reports

4. Click Student Scores

5. Choose desired report, click OK

6. Print.

 5. ADDITIONAL COURSES

Perform the following steps to grade additional courses using the same test version. Otherwise
repeat previous steps for scoring a different test version.

1. Double-click the LXRTEST 6.0 Icon (on the Desktop),

2. Click Scores (side toolbar of LXR screen),

3. Choose Open existing Scores database; click OK,

4. Click the drop down menu, and browse to your personal folder,

5. Select existing Score file,

6. Save the file as a different name.

7. Delete all old records:

a. Click Select at the top menu bar,

b. Choose Select All,
c. Click Select,
d. Choose Delete Selected,

8. Score student response sheets:

Load student response forms in scanner the same as the answer key,
Select Read Response Forms from the Reader option at the top.

When all students response forms are scanned successfully, select Score (Grade) from the
Score menu at the top.

7. Sort data by double clicking on column labels in Scores Window {ie. Clicking Student Name
alphabetizes names}.