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Another big win in the importing/exporting space would be to find ways to bring outside content from textbook publishers into Samigo, so faculty could make use of prewritten assessments and problem sets. There are several different threads going on in this area, probably the most extensive work is being done by the Sakai Foundation Working Group on Content Management, in particular with Sakai's implementation of the Common Cartridge standard, but all this stuff is probably several releases out into the future. The advantage of the Common Cartridge standard is also clear on the exporting side, because it provides a content package format into which SmartSite tests & quizzes could be output for later migration into other systems.

Limitations:

1. Can't export question pools yet, except with workaround – create a quiz that pulls a random selection from a pool, when exported it exports all questions. Bug fix may make that no longer work.
2. Calculated questions can't be imported from MyUCDavis (see Fit Analysis)
3. Also, some functionality that's currently available in MyUCDavis will be lost in Samigo, as documented in this fit analysis
   • e.g. Matching questions in other systems have distractors (see Fit Analysis)
4. There seems to be an upper limit on the number of questions that can be viewed in a question pool (around 900) SAK-61 – this may be an authoring limitation as well
5. Need ability to import simpler text formats SAK-2965

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).

Futuristic:

• In design phase: importing Respondus quizzes or question pools – the advantage of R. is that it's a nice authoring environment - desktop app, less than $100 a copy.
• QTI: Interoperability standard. Predecessor to Common Cartridge. Distinct from Zach's effort to implement CC. Part of Sakai's committment to IMS standards for compatibility.
• Consider expanding QTI import/export to look at IMS Content Packaging – includes capability to import/export media with a quiz, possibly importing/exporting subpools. Still gathering use cases from the community for this.
• Common Cartridge: Still unclear when this will be incorporated into Sakai Foundation core. Prob. sign. work to draw into our world. But, it could make it possible to bring in various outside data...
  Outside tool from Sakai Foundation, does migration via SiteInfo, long-term effort to bring in textbook publisher data, etc

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Fit Analysis

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• Samigo does not have a calculated type question
• Samigo does not have an unordered fillin question
• File attachments to assessments have not yet been added as of 2.2
• Permissions still do not exist to handle sharing of quiz editing and viewing privileges, although it is possible to export a quiz and give it to someone else to import
• There is still no 'hint' field, that I was able to find, although the 'feedback' mechanism might be adaptable to this purpose.
• It's still not possible to restrict matching questions or provide distractors

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• The issue raised with the 'default template', i.e. not being able to modify it, is no longer a problem since the introduction of assessment types
• The various problems raised with timed assessments may still be there; I don't have sufficient time to verify. These are further reinforced by the problems raised under Authoring in regards to high-stakes quizzes

List of current UCDavis Samigo bugs and their relevence

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