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Importing/Exporting

It seems that the biggest issue for UC Davis in this space is being able to bring existing quizzes and tests built using MyUCDavis Quizbuilder into SmartSite. This is the work that Lisa's been doing.

Currently, it's possible to import assessments from MyUCDavis, with some limitations. It's also possible to export Samigo assessments and pass them around between individuals then later to import them back into Samigo, to facilitate sharing of quiz materials within departments.

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.

Probably the biggest win in the importing/exporting space will 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 students. 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.

Limitations:

  1. 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.
  2. Calculated questions can't be imported from MyUCDavis
  3. Also, some functionality that's currently available in MyUCDavis will be lost in Samigo, as documented in this gap analysis
    • e.g. Matching questions in other systems have distractors
  4. 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
  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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