Authoring
To get a visual sense of how assessments are authored in Samigo Tests & Quizzes, it may be helpful to take a look at the Authoring Workflow.
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 or adding new functionality in this space.
Currently, the instructor can control, for example, 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.
Unfortunately, the user interface itself is neither exactly intuitive or streamlined. For example, in order to 'publish' an assessment – a necessary step if you want anyone to be able to use it – it's necessary to click on 'Settings' before you can find or select the 'Publish' button.
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.
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
Limitations
- Big thing is adding new question types – adding calculated/algorithmic questions
- Currently, to share question pools between users requires import/export - can't do it staying within the authoring tool itself
- Copying question pools doesn't actually copy questions, it creates links SAK-3526
- During authoring the list of question-types available is not context-sensitive SAK-1379 – this could be a feature or a limitation depending on POV.
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