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Importing/Exporting

It seems In a recent Faculty-Mentoring-Faculty meeting, one of the topics that got the most play was how frustrating it was that each time a new system came in, the faculty lost all the work they'd done in the previous system, and there was some concern about whether it would be possible to get this same data out of SmartSite, when and if it's retired in favor of the next system. It's not surprising then that the biggest issue for UC Davis is currently confronting in this space is being able introducing the ability to bring existing quizzes and tests built using MyUCDavis Quizbuilder into SmartSite, and then to take SmartSite tests and quizzes and export them in some kind of standard format. This is the work that Lisa's been doing.

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Because of the awkwardness of authoring assessments within Samigo, we expect there to be significant faculty interest in ways to import simple text documents and/or existing tests and quizzes authored in richer tools like Respondus. Other institutions have brought up similar requests, but it doesn't seem like this is a priority for the Stanford folks yet.

Probably the biggest Another big win in the importing/exporting space will would be to find ways to bring outside content from textbook publishers into Samigo, so faculty do not have to author all the assessments they provide to their studentscould 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.

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title	For more details on the gap between MyUCDavis and Samigo

Check out this Update to Fit Analysis

Limitations:

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

List of current UCDavis Samigo bugs and their relevence

UCD Jira	Description	Relationships
SAK-205	Import question pools into Samigo	Major feature/multiple dependencies
SAK-253	Provide a method to: 1) allow SOM WebCT flat text files to be imported 2) as question pools in Tests & Quizzes	Depends on SAK-205
SAK-242	Export question pools (and collections) from MyUCDavis	Depends on SAK-205
SAK-208	Import Respondus quizzes and pools into Samigo: broken into 3 tasks	Tasks: SAK-243, SAK-241,SAK-244
SAK-243	Gap analysis between Samigo and Respondus question types and file formats; step one of SAK-208; research and documentation - no programming; includes review of Content Packaging	Initial task of SAK-208
SAK-241	Spec out UI design for import Respondus quizzes and pools with Stanford; how will users select import a Respondus file; communicate with mARC at Stanford to put in Samigo documentation	Second task of SAK-208
SAK-244	Code design for import and Common Cartridge migration of multiple translation types; the import of non-Sakai files code should be extensible for use in CC imports, e.g., use the same XSL translation files; research affecting proposed code design of SAK-208	Third task of SAK-208
SAK-86	Mac OSX, Safari: No edit tools for questions created in T&Q; listed in collab-confer w/Stanford?; pls assign to someone else! (Lisa )	Collab SAK-2230
SAK-67	Question Pool: List Questions by Brief Title; one faculty asked for this feature - a major change to Samigo design; needs polling amongst faculty	Feature request
SAK-61	Writing Quizzes with Firefox Impossible with Too Many Questions; browser/UI performance issue; pls assign to someone else! (Lisa )	Performance
SAK-56	Fill-in Unordered and Ordered Questions do not show blank if at beginning of question; UCD testing found this failure (works in Quiz Builder); there are several jiras for fil in blank question types	FIB bug