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In addition to providing instructors with the ability to build assessments of the six built-in types: Formative Assessment, Problem Set, Quiz, Survey, Test, and Timed Test, the authoring tool also allows for these types themselves to be customized, and for new assessment types to be created. Of course, there is still plenty of functionality that could be added – and most of the effort out there in the community seems to be either fixing bugs with the existing functionality or adding new functionality in this space.

Currently, the instructor can control, for exampleamong other things, how many times an assessment can be submitted, whether late submissions will be accepted, whether to provide the user with feedback after an answer is submitted, and even whether the program should accept submissions only from specific IP addresses. It's also possible to break up an assessment into discrete sections and to control how questions are presented to the user – i.e. one per page or in batches.

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Also, the process of creating an assessment requires each question to be entered one-at-a-time and on its own screen. This means that there's no easy way for an instructor to simply copy and paste a list of questions that she's written up in a word processor. This strikes me as the biggest hurdle on the authoring side, since the awkwardness of this current method pushes it closer to the 'power-user' side of things and makes the hurdle bigger for non-technical instructors who simply want to put their existing paper assessments online.

Tasks/Feature Requests

  • There's some interest in sharing assessment types so they could be modified on a departmental basis, for example SAK-5199 and SAK-3526
  • Request for more flexibility to accommodate students with special needs - allow instructor to adjust time available on a student-by-student basis SAK-3427

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