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On June 16, 2011, Christine Doherty presented a comprehensive agenda on the future of Tests & Quizzes (T&Q) at Stanford University. The discussion focused on development dilemmas, community contributions, and the importance of user experience reviews. Key highlights included the integration of Respondus, the ability to record average scores for multiple submissions, and enhanced feedback options for instructors. The presentation emphasized the need for clear specifications for new features and streamlined project management to improve user interaction while reducing UI clutter.
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Tests & Quizzes (aka SAMigo) Christine Doherty, Stanford University June 16, 2011
Agenda • Future of T&Q: Development Dilemmas • Community Contribution • 2.8 Highlights • 2.9 Plans • Q&A
Future of T&Q: Development Dilemmas
Guiding Principles Flexibility/Freedom Reliability/Error-Free
Development Focus Improve UI/Interaction Add New Features
Project Management Stanford as Gatekeeper Modularize/Distribute
New Release Process http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/SAM
Rationale • User experience reviews are critical: • New features can cause clutter in UI, confusion, bad user experience • New features can clash with existing or planned features and lead to unexpected behavior • Stanford only has one designer to tackle the workload, so we need help
Requirements for Contributions Clear specs are a must: • Rationale for new feature/enhancement • Description of expected behavior • Documentation of all affected screens • Screen shots desirable
RespondusIntegration before 2.8 Respondus Sakai – T&Q Question Types Changed Missing Metadata
RespondusIntegration in 2.8 Sakai – T&Q Respondus QTI XML or Zip file from Respondus Imports to Sakai Tests & Quizzes
Respondus Integration Respondus Sakai – T&Q Respondus Sakai – T&Q
Record Average Score • New Feature: ability to record average score for multiple submissions • Redesigned UI for student’s Submitted Assessments list to accommodate displaying average scores • Contributed by Rice University
Release Scores Only • Based on feedback from instructors wanting to show students their scores without allowing them to see questions again (since questions are reused in subsequent tests) • Solution is to separate out scores from rest of feedback options
Send zero scores to Gradebookfor non-submission records • Clash of scoring rules in Tests & Quizzes and Gradebook caused inability to set zero scores for non-submission records for inclusion in course grade calculation • Solution is to allow instructors to explicitly enter a zero score for a non-submission record that gets sent to gradebook • Patch contributed by Longsight
Rich Text Entry for Short Answer/Essay • Instructors from several institutions requested a way for students to enter rich text in essay questions for equations, foreign characters, or just general formatting • Solution is to present students with the ability to use the FCKeditorin Short Answer/Essay questions. • Contributed by Longsight
Publish Action • Based on feedback that Settings and Publish actions were redundant, both leading to Settings page • Solution is to link Publish action to Publish Assessment page where settings are verified and notification added (if desired)
Remove Assessment Types • Assessment Types often prove to be confusing to instructors, since they may not know what the labels mean and what settings go with them • One solution is to remove any trace of assessment types with a sakai property (samigo.showAssessmentTypes=False) • Contributed by Longsight