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- Authoring: the process of creating assessments within the Samigo tool
- Delivery: the process of administering an assessment to a group of students or other users
- Reports: collecting statistics on the assessments
- Importing/Exporting: the effort to draw existing assessments into Sakai, and to output them in some format that other systems will be able to use
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| Anchor | assessment | assessment | assessment: in Samigo, a generic term for test, quiz, survey, etc.
| Anchor | assessment_type | assessment_type | assessment type: a grouping of characteristics that can then be applied to an assessment, so that each assessment is initially created with a particular assessment type, for example, a timed quiz, which has the characteristic that
Authoring
Workflow
Creating a new assessment
When the instructor opens the Samigo tool, she is presented with this screen:
To create a new assessment, she will need to follow these steps:
- Enter a title in the appropriate textbox
- Select the desired assessment type (for example, 'Survey', 'Test', or 'Quiz'), and
- Click the button labelled Create.
If the instructor clicks Create, she will then be presented with a screen prompting her to enter her first question (see immediately below). It's also possible to click on the button labelled Import, which will then allow questions to be imported from a QTI compliant file.
Adding a new question to the assessment
The navigation buttons available on this screen are:
- Add Part: 'Part' is the Samigo term for Section, and allows the instructor to break up a given assessment into discrete chunks that can then be ordered.
- Settings: this will take the user to the complete settings screen, which contains all the fields available for a given assessment type.
- Preview Assessment: this will bring up a screen that actually allows the instructor to walk through the assessment from beginning to end seeing it approximately as a student or survey-taker would.
But under normal conditions, the instructor will most likely first choose a question type from the drop down box containing the text 'select a question type'. Available question types include: Multiple Choice, Survey, Short Answer/Essay, Fill in the Blank, Matching, True/False, File Upload, and Copy from Question Pool.
If she selects Multiple Choice, for example, then the screen will immediately refresh.
Composing a multiple choice question
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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.
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