Delivery

Delivery

What's delivery?

In comparison to the authoring process, the delivery process is quite straightforward. Obviously there are different ways that the different types of questions can be presented to the test taker, and there are complexities involved in randomizing multiple choice answers, or when to provide feedback, but most of the work that remains to be done with delivery is probably in ensuring that (a) there is almost nothing a student can do to either cheat or cause the test to malfunction, and that (b) the delivery itself allows every student to access the assessment without delay and submit at the proper time.

An additional hurdle is to provide the instructors with enough flexibility to modify tests at the last moment to handle unforeseen events – accidental early submissions, students with special needs, etc.

From the JIRA tickets out there I've formed the the impression that, aside from fixing bugs in this space, the Samigo Community seems to be focusing mostly on expanding the media aspects of the delivery process – primarily in adding the ability to include audio files in questions. Based on what's come up in the Faculty-Mentoring-Faculty meetings, it sounds like this would be interesting for Foreign Language, ESL, and Music instructors at Davis, at the least.

Briefly, then

• Performance is the most fundamental issue here, both in terms of speed and reliability

  • Most likely we will need some kind of load testing procedure in place to ensure that we don't repeat the problems of MyUCDavis, currently it doesn't seem like anybody is developing this

• The ability to administer high-stakes quizzes through Samigo is not yet supported in a realistic way (see Limitations below)

Limitations

• When session times out, student may find him/herself unable to submit a quiz SAK-2242

• Students are accidentally submitting tests early SAK-3942

• Unexpected behavior when quiz time runs out in Netscape SAK-4279

• File upload questions don't work when the servers are clustered SAK-2297

• Timing of feedback may need to become more flexible SAK-4005

• Changing of feedback settings may also need to be more flexible
  SAK-3943

• Help pages are not yet context sensitive SAK-4103

• Need a high-stakes question type SAK-1749

  • Some clarification is needed about the distinction between a linear assessment and a high-stakes quiz SAK-3211

  • There are various security issues that may be prerequisites to high-stakes quizzes SAK-1905

• Generally, it doesn't seem like the test-taking is bulletproof enough yet, clicking too fast on buttons can cause problems, etc. SAK-6553 and SAK-6692

• Apparently it's not yet possible for test-takers to attach binary content to questions SAK-3612

• More information is needed about available assessments in the student view SAK-1906

• Links in questions need to direct to outside the browser frame SAK-3641

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