Remark Office OMR Update Timeline

Remark Office OMR 10.4
October 2020
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New Features and Enhancements:

• Advanced Grade Redirection: If you receive a message box in Advanced Grade/Learning Objectives and close it, you are now properly returned to the Learning Objectives area of Advanced Grade.

Fixes:

• *Error Exporting Student Response Report to Excel: An error 9000 was corrected when exporting the Student Response Report to Excel AND using Standard Test Versions.
• Error Creating Batches: An error 438 was corrected when you attempted to create batches in the Data Center.
• *Exporting Test Item Data: An issue was fixed where partial credit values did not display in the Test Item Data export file.
• Error Using Recognition Tools: An error 450 was corrected when using the Recognition Tools in the Data Center.
• Error Setting SMTP Settings: A null error was corrected when setting up the SMTP settings for email.
• *Calculation Adjustments on Test Statistics Report: The calculations used on the Test Statistics Report when using multiple test versions were adjusted to match those of Remark Office OMR 2014.
• *Integrated Item Analysis Report Missing Questions: A problem was fixed where the Integrated Item Analysis Report sometimes did not show certain questions.
• *Empty Custom Header: A problem was fixed where the user-defined custom report header would end up blank.
• *Error Importing Learning Objectives. An error message 2146232969 “The given key was not present in the dictionary” was corrected when clicking learning objectives after importing them in Advanced Grade.
• Extra Header Line in Item Response Report. A problem was fixed when running the Item Response Report using Advanced Multiple Test versions, where an extra “Response” label was added at the end of the report for each test version after the first.

Remark Office OMR 10.3
January 2020
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New Features and Enhancements:

• Template Editor Defaults to Reading Images: If you do not have a scanner set up in Remark Office OMR, the template editor now defaults to reading from image files when creating a new template.
• Generic Keys Support Multiple Test Versions. Support was added for both Standard and Advanced multiple test versions when saving and loading generic answer keys.

Fixes:

• *Duplicate Answers: An error was eliminated when grading with a template that contains duplicate answers for a question.
• Managing Email Template in Report Batches: An “Index out of bounds” error was corrected when you attempted to “manage” the email template when generating Report Batches.
• *Error #5800 with Item Analysis Reports: An error #5800 was corrected when generating the Item Analysis reports in certain situations.
• *Empty PDF of Crosstab Report: A problem with an empty report was fixed when exporting the Crosstab report from within an automation (REZ) file.
• *Importing/Exporting Grade Scales: An error #438 was corrected when importing and exporting grade scales.
• *BeforeKey Error when Analyzing Multiple Data Sets: A “BeforeKey” error was corrected when attempting to analyze more than one data set at a time.
• *Analysis Group Report Missing Last Graph: A problem was fixed where the Analysis Group report was not displaying the graph for the last question.
• *Question Weights Set to 0: A problem was fixed where the question weights in Advanced Survey defaulted to 0 instead of 1.
• *Error Importing Text Keys. An error message was corrected when importing textual answer keys that use advanced multiple test versions in Advanced Grade.
• *Inconsistencies in Header of Test Item Data Export. The headers were only being included in the file under certain circumstances, which has been fixed so that they always display.

Remark Office OMR 10.2
October 2019
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New Features and Enhancements:

• Image Clips on Reports: You can now include an image clip (handwritten information) as an Analysis Respondent ID on reports. For example, if you capture a name, you can include it on the associated reports, such as the Student Statistics or Student Grade report to identify the respondent.
• Saving Images as PNG: You can now save scanned images to the PNG format when scanning forms.
• *Resizing Regions with Keyboard: You can now use the arrow keys on the keyboard to resize a region’s borders in the Template Editor. The arrow keys + SHIFT will resize the selected regions. Using CTRL and SHIFT together increases the amount the regions are moved/resized.
• *Recognition Improvements: Improvements to the overall recognition of forms were added based on recognition errors reported to our support team.
• *Report Batch Update: The option to “Save all reports to a single folder” was removed. In its place is better naming controls in the folder base name. You can also apply the filter you are using for the batch in your naming convention.

Fixes:

• *Learning Objectives with Scaled Scores: A problem was fixed where learning objectives with different scaled scores applied the last objective scaled score to all learning objectives.
• *Extra Columns in Results Export: A problem was fixed where there were extra commas for unused data in the CSV export format when using Export Textual Data and Results in Remark Quick Stats.
• *Exporting Data with Multiple Answer Keys: When exporting data from Remark Quick Stats and using multiple test versions, all records were displaying the first version key identifier regardless of their actual key identifier.
• *Error when Closing Software using Automation File: A message telling the user to close Remark Quick Stats when automatically exiting the software using an automation file was corrected.

Remark Office OMR 10.1
January 2019
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New Features and Enhancements:

• Remark Quick Stats:
  • Email Summary when Using Report Batches – A summary was added when using Report Batches and sending emails so that you can verify the emails that will be sent.
  • Pasting in Answer Key in Grade Utility – The ability to paste correct answers in the answer key was added to the stand alone Advanced Grade Utility.
  • Pasting in Answer Key in Advanced Versions – The ability to paste correct answers in the advanced standard answer key was added.
  • Single Excel File for Multiple Versions – When exporting to Excel and using Standard Answer Keys, you will now get one Excel file with the various versions, as opposed to separate Excel files based on the version.
• Data Center:
  • A link was added to the Help menu to submit a Remark review on our website.
  • *Variable Paths in Automation Files – The ability to use dynamic paths throughout the application was added. For example, you can use it in REZ files, when saving data files and in image clip names.
  • *Auto Form ID with One Template – The ability to turn on Auto Form ID when only using one template was added.
  • *Turn off Recovery Logging – The ability to turn off auto recovery was added. If this feature is used, and the software crashes, you will not be able to restore your work (feature is off by default).

Fixes:

• Remark Quick Stats:
  • Math Fractional Question Grading Issue – An issue with grading math fractional questions where correct answers were explicitly defined was fixed.
  • Error Exiting Remark Quick Stats – An error #3704 when closing Remark Office OMR before Quick Stats closed was fixed.
  • Missing Percent Sign in Reports – The percent sign was re-added to the Basic Item Analysis Report with Statistics
  • *Multiple Responses when Importing Answer Keys – When importing a from grid row or a text key and the correct answer is multiple responses where all responses are required for the response to be correct, the software was changed to allow multiple responses so they are not converted to ‘-3’.
  • Excel Issue with Condensed Test Report – An issue was fixed when using multiple test versions and exporting the report to Excel, where the second and subsequent test version reports had an error with the Response Frequency heading labels not being displayed and the data was shifted up a row.
  • *Quick Grade with Standard Answer Keys – An issue was fixed when using Quick Grade and allowing multiple responses where the additional test versions were treating the multiple responses as “OR”, meaning any single correct answer was marked as correct.
  • *Additional Commas in CSV Export – An issue was fixed where after grading a test in Remark Quick Stats and exporting to csv format using Export Textual Data and results using the default scores, Remark was adding additional commas for all the scores listed that can be exported even though they were not selected.
  • *Report Batches Hang – A problem was fixed where running Report Batches would hang Remark Quick Stats.
  • Sorting Students Causes Student Grade Report to Span Multiple Pages – A problem was fixed when using learning objectives and sorting the student grade report, it forced each learning objective onto a new page of the report, as opposed to all of them in the table at the top.
  • Response Reports Error – A problem was fixed where the Response Reports would state there are no records to run the report if the template only had image regions (no OMR regions).
• Data Center:
  • *Blank Fields in CSV File – A problem was fixed where there would be extra blank fields when exporting data to the CSV format.
  • Saving Data With File Extensions – A problem was fixed where occasionally Remark would not include the file extension when saving data.
  • Error Selecting SMTP as Default Email – An error was fixed when selecting the SMTP option as your default email client.
  • Custom Data Transform Issue with Appended OMR Regions – An issue was fixed where appended OMR regions’ data was combined into one field when using the custom data export format.
• Template Editor:
  • *Value Numbering for Appended Regions – An issue was fixed where sequential value numbering did not always work for appended OMR regions.
  • Pasting Question Text – An issue was fixed with pasting information into the question text of a region where all of the information didn’t paste.

Remark Office OMR 10
April 2018
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New Features and Enhancements:

• Fresh New Look: The interface has a fresh new look to better match modern Windows applications.
• *New and Improved OCR Engine. Along with quicker processing and improved accuracy, the new OCR engine offers support for an additional 70+ languages through an extended language pack.
  
• More User Friendly Activation Process. The process of activating and transferring software licenses has been streamlined.
• Data Center:
  • *Qualitative Coding on the Fly: When using Image regions with qualitative coding, you can now add and edit the list of codes right from the Data Center without having to modify the template ahead of time.
  • *Updated Target Folder for Image Clips: The Target Folder that is set up to hold image clips has been updated to allow both browsing to a location and typing (or copying/pasting) a location.
  • *MariaDB Support: MariaDB is now supported for exporting data through ODBC.
  • Save Database Lookup Changes to New Template: When a template’s database lookup information is modified from the Data Center, you can now save those changes to a new template (as oppose to only overwriting the currently open template).
  • *Auto Increment Record Number when Using Auto Form ID: The ability to increment record numbers across multiple open templates when using Auto Form ID was added. This feature allows you to quickly find a scanned document in any of the data files.
• Automation
  • *Prompt for Image During Automation: When using an automation (REZ) file, you can now set it to prompt you for an image to read, and then the software will continue to carry out any other processes defined (e.g. grading the test).
  • Chain Automation Files Together: The ability to have one automation file launch another automation file was added.
• Remark Quick Stats:
  • Updated Answer Keys and Survey Definition Files: Answer keys are now more flexible to allow you to reuse them after changes have been made to the corresponding template (e.g. removing or adding questions).
  • More Robust Partial Credit: When grading tests and applying partial credit to a question, you can now include any combination of answer choices and associated point values.
  • Support for Learning Objective Grade and Standard Answer Keys. You can now use Learning Objectives and Standard Answer keys at the same time.
  • More Question Options for Standard Answer Keys: Standard keys now allow differing number of correct responses between versions for questions in the same position, and allow correct AND/OR per question per version (for questions with more than one correct response).
  • *Export to Excel with Multiple Test Versions: When grading tests with multiple test versions (answer keys) you can now export reports to Excel.
  • *Custom Decimal Points in Excel Export: You can set the number of decimal points to use when exporting reports to Excel.
  • *All Reports are Available when Using Batches and Multiple Test Versions: When grading tests with multiple test versions (answer keys) all reports are now available when setting up a batch.
  • *Automatic Splitting of the Student Grade Report: The Student Grade Report can now be split into individual student files for easy emailing and distribution.
  • *Email Reports to Individual Recipients. You can now email reports to individual students. This feature is particularly useful for email student grade reports and other reports that are specific to a respondent.
  • Run Multiple Report Batches at Once: The ability to chain report batches together was added, so that one batch finishes you can set off another one automatically.
  • Student Statistics Report Updates: The popular Student Statistics Report was updated to be more user friendly in the order in which items are displayed. You can also show or hide the objective/subjective score columns (displayed when a subjective question is in use).
  • *Ballot Results Report: A new report was added to streamline the tabulation of ballot style responses. It tabulates and displays the choices in order from highest to lowest selection.

Fixes:

• Template Editor:
  • *Illegal Characters in Region Names: Characters that could potentially cause problems during data export are now excluded from question/region names, including: . – Period, ! – Exclamation, ‘ – Singe quote, [ – Left bracket, ] – Right bracket, , – Comma, ” – Doublequote, ( – Left paren, ) – Right paren.
  • *Special Characters Excluded from Templates: Characters such as tabs and carriage returns can cause problems and are now excluded from the template. These items include: tabs, new line character, carriage return, carriage return/line feed, null character. The affected areas of the template include: template description, region name, image region default fills, question text, question names, answer labels, answer codes, blank/mult/duplicate/error return values and ID values.
• Data Center:
  • Error 32811 when Reviewing Regions with Duplicate Values: An error #32811 was fixed when reviewing data that had repeating values as the answer labels.
  • Digitally Filled PDF Files Not Properly Flattened When Archiving: A problem was fixed where PDF files were not properly flattened when reading digitally filled PDF files and archiving the images.
  • Custom Export: A problem was fixed where the custom export experienced a lag for excessively large files.
  • *Custom Export: A problem was fixed where the custom export was not saving the start line for data output.
• Remark Quick Stats:
  • Opening Saved Answer Keys/Survey Definitions with Multiple Data Sets: Remark now properly opens saved answer key and survey definition files when multiple data sets are in use.
  • *Non-Tabulated Regions Showing as Tabulated in Advanced Survey: A problem was fixed where non-tabulated regions appeared as though they were being tabulated in Advanced Survey due to a refresh issue.
  • *Selecting Textual Questions as Subjective: A problem was fixed where you were able to select textual questions as Subjective questions in Advanced Grade. You can now change the question to numeric and set it to Subjective, but it cannot be used for Subjective if it is set to the textual data type.
  • *Exporting Numeric/Textual Results with Grades: A problem was fixed where all possible columns of data appeared when exporting grade results to the textual or numeric formats.
  • *Invalid Responses on Detailed Item Analysis Report: A problem was fixed where hand entered invalid responses were not being properly shown on the Detailed Item Analysis Report when exported to Excel.
  • Exporting Reports to Excel with International Characters: The Excel export now supports international characters in the question names.
  • Low Quality Images on Integrated Item Analysis Report: The Integrated Item Analysis Report settings were updated to set image quality to “High” for image clips.
  • *Student Response Report Incorrect Highlighting: A problem was fixed where the Excel exported version of the Student Response Report incorrectly highlighted multiple responses as green (correct) when they were properly graded as incorrect.

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