Project Summary
The purpose of this project is to create a tool to allow faculty to migrate their existing question pool content from the MyUCDavis course management system (cms) to the Question Pool feature of Tests & Quizzes (Samigo) in the UC Davis implementation of Sakai.
Question pool migration entails several different functions which may be addressed as separate projects:
- export a question pool from MyUCDavis
- export associated media files from MyUCDavis
- import a question pool to Samigo
These functions are being approached separately for several reasons:
- Samigo import functionality as of 8/11/06 is limited to single xml file using QTI 1.2 standards
- Samigo does not yet support importing media via QTI content packaging
Success of this project will be measured by the following criteria:
- proven ability to export a faculty's entire question pool as a single, Samigo-compliant assessment xml file
- written notification of export exceptions, i.e., calculated questions will not be exported
- failure to export a question pool successfully will elicit an clear and concise error message
- export of media in a zip file and documentation associating media with specific questions
- proven ability to import the MyUCDavis-generated xml file into Samigo as a question pool
- failure to import successfully will elicit an error message
- proven ability to import media files into Resources
Background
IET intends to move faculty and staff using the MyUCDavis cms to using a UC Davis Sakai implementation by Fall 2007. MyUCDavis is a custom-coded, locally-supported ColdFusion application, while Sakai is an open source, collaborative Java application.
To encourage faculty to adopt the new cms, it is imperative that we enable course content migration for both faculty and support staff. Migration must be a smooth and opaque process for faculty. It is also desirable that the migration be consistent with existing functionality in Sakai and be well documented for ease of use by faculty and staff.
Out of Project Scope
The following issues are out of scope of this project:
- migration of media files within a question pool (media files are migrated separately)
- insertion of media files into questions after migration
- export of question pools in Samigo
- migration of MyUCDavis content outside of Quiz Builder
- migration of MyUCDavis quizzes (completed February 2006)
Analysis
How many faculty have qpools in my?
How are qpools used?
How can qpools be exported from my and imported into sakai?
How so faculty use qpools in sakai?