Authoring
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If you've never seen Samigo in action, it may be helpful to take a look at the Authoring Workflow to get a visual sense of how assessments are authored in Samigo Tests & Quizzes |
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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 to this authoring tool (in place of considering other methods of authoring assessments or allowing instructors to upload simple text files, as has been suggested in several JIRA tickets).
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As a result of this design decision, the process of creating an assessment also 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. The choice in designing Samigo has obviously been to sacrifice ease-of-use for comprehensiveness of functionality, and I think this will ultimately limit the number of instructors who are willing to use the tool.
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.
- Performance problems when clicking on 'Add Part' SAK-5323
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