Project Summary

The purpose of this project is to create a tool to allow faculty to migrate their existing question pool content from the MyUCDavis course management system (cms) to the Question Pool feature of Tests & Quizzes (Samigo) in the UC Davis implementation of Sakai.

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• proven ability to export a faculty's entire question pool as a single, Samigo-compliant assessment xml file
• written notification of export exceptions, i.e., calculated questions will not be exported
• failure to export a question pool successfully will elicit an clear and concise error message
• export of media in a zip file and documentation associating media with specific questions
• proven ability to import the MyUCDavis-generated xml file into Samigo as a question pool
• failure to import successfully will elicit an error message
• proven ability to import media files into Resources

Background

IET intends to move faculty and staff using the MyUCDavis cms to using a UC Davis Sakai implementation by Fall 2007. MyUCDavis is a custom-coded, locally-supported ColdFusion application, while Sakai is an open source, collaborative Java application.

To encourage faculty to adopt the new cms, it is imperative that we enable course content migration for both faculty and support staff. Migration must be a smooth and opaque process for faculty. It is also desirable that the migration be consistent with existing functionality in Sakai and be well documented for ease of use by faculty and staff.

Out of Project Scope

The following issues are out of scope of this project:

• migration of media files within a question pool (media files are migrated separately)
• insertion of media files into questions after migration
• export of question pools in Samigo
• migration of MyUCDavis content outside of Quiz Builder
• migration of MyUCDavis quizzes (completed February 2006)

Analysis

Analysis of question pool data was completed to determine the scope and character of question pool content. Previous analysis for migrating MyUCDavis quiz content indicates that some questions/question types will not be compatible with the current Sakai environment.

MyUCDavis Question Pool Usage Analysis

As of 8/11/06 there are 10,423 questions stored in the MyUCDavis equivalent of question pools.
Some of the content will not be migrated because the original owners are no longer valid Kerberos/UCD personnel. The numbers break down as follows:

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