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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.
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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.
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.
Delivery
- Performance is the most fundamental issue here, both in terms of speed and reliability
- Most likely we will need some kind of load testing procedure in place to ensure that we don't repeat the problems of MyUCDavis, currently it doesn't seem like anybody is developing this
- The ability to administer high-stakes quizzes through Samigo is not yet supported in a realistic way (see Limitations below)
Limitations
- Timing of feedback may need to become more flexible SAK-4005
- Help pages are not yet context sensitive SAK-4103
- Need a high-stakes question type SAK-1749
- Generally, it doesn't seem like the test-taking is bulletproof enough yet, clicking too fast on buttons can cause problems, etc. SAK-6553 and SAK-6692
Reports
Minimal functionality at the moment.
- For example: School of Medicine wants to have "how long did student spend on each question"?
Importing/Exporting
Obviously, being able to bring existing quizzes and tests into SmartSite is crucial for all the current users of MyUCDavis Quizbuilder.
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One way: Samigo -> UCDavis.
Limitations:
- Can't export question pools yet, except with workaround – create a quiz that pulls a random selection from a pool, when export it exports all questions. Bug fix may make that no longer work.
- Calculated questions can't be imported from MyUCDavis
- Also, some things lost - documented in this gap analysis
- e.g. Matching questions in other systems have distractors may need a link/description
- MyUCDavis allows you
- There seems to be an upper limit on the number of questions you can have in a question pool SAK-61 – this may be an authoring limitation as well
Some things that are ahead in the import/export space:
On the horizon:
First thing: import question pools, which will take exported quizzes from Samigo. Key thing is that you can export a quiz and hand it to somebody else (share with other faculty), import to pool. Main thing, initially.
Second thing: export question pools and collections from MyUCDavis (new feature for MyUCDavis).
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