Hi Ray,
One idea that I have is to separate quizzes from questions to allow questions to be reused across quizzes. Each question could be assigned to a category and a difficulty level and a quiz could be build by defining which category / difficultly / quantity combinations.
For example:
A ‘Java Developer Quiz’ could contain 10 difficult Swing questions, 5 medium JDBC and 5 easy SQL questions.
And a ‘J2EE Developer Quiz’ could contain10 difficult JSP/Servlet questions, 5 medium JDBC and 5 easy SQL questions.
Disclaimer - no architecture preference implied
Maybe this is what you meant by:
I also think it may be worth considering supporting questions that consist of a flash movie, this will allow interactive questions with rich user interfaces and support drag & drop for example.
Dave
One idea that I have is to separate quizzes from questions to allow questions to be reused across quizzes. Each question could be assigned to a category and a difficulty level and a quiz could be build by defining which category / difficultly / quantity combinations.
For example:
A ‘Java Developer Quiz’ could contain 10 difficult Swing questions, 5 medium JDBC and 5 easy SQL questions.
And a ‘J2EE Developer Quiz’ could contain10 difficult JSP/Servlet questions, 5 medium JDBC and 5 easy SQL questions.
Disclaimer - no architecture preference implied
Maybe this is what you meant by:
Ray Auge:
sectional grouping of questions
I also think it may be worth considering supporting questions that consist of a flash movie, this will allow interactive questions with rich user interfaces and support drag & drop for example.
Dave
Hello, dear all
Very glad to find this Liferay University "Quiz Portlet", which is very interesting. I am new to Liferay, while I still would like to share some of my ideas here.
First, I think the system should can let the student who was given the enough permision to self-test, which means he can let the Quiz Portlet to generate the Quiz itself (perhaps via random style, also the Quiz Portlet can give some configuration pages to constraint the questions generated.)
So, no teacher needed here. This can help the student self-learning.
Second, I agree that the "infinit number of sub-categories" can get a very fine grained fashion, while, not sure if the Quiz Portlet can adopt some machanism of "Tags/Label" idea, which is very popular in Web 2.0 conception. I would like to show an example:
If the teacher wants to test the Java skill of the student, then perhaps he will put many questions, and each question perhaps will not only test just one point of the java, perhaps it will contain two (even more) knowledge skill points of the java language, such as "how to use java println()" and "how to use java data type Integer", this two points will be tested within one question. But the two points have no any categories and sub-categories relationship. So, we could just put 2 tags (such as "java method" and "java data type") to let the student finally know what the testing purpose of the question. By this way, if the student failed some question, then he can quickly find what skill he lacks, and also, he can quickly find the related questions in the system (if he has enough permission) via this Tags/Label design.
I found in the Future Releases Owen (March 2007), it gets something like this and I think perhaps my idea for the Quiz Portlet would be similar as the following.
Blog Improvements
......
Tags / Labels
Entry Rating System
I am not sure if I expressed myself clearly above, as a University student, I think the above two points will help the students more easily learn what they have learned.
If I understood something wrong or something I put above still unclear, just correct it!
Best regards, xiao
Very glad to find this Liferay University "Quiz Portlet", which is very interesting. I am new to Liferay, while I still would like to share some of my ideas here.
First, I think the system should can let the student who was given the enough permision to self-test, which means he can let the Quiz Portlet to generate the Quiz itself (perhaps via random style, also the Quiz Portlet can give some configuration pages to constraint the questions generated.)
So, no teacher needed here. This can help the student self-learning.
Second, I agree that the "infinit number of sub-categories" can get a very fine grained fashion, while, not sure if the Quiz Portlet can adopt some machanism of "Tags/Label" idea, which is very popular in Web 2.0 conception. I would like to show an example:
If the teacher wants to test the Java skill of the student, then perhaps he will put many questions, and each question perhaps will not only test just one point of the java, perhaps it will contain two (even more) knowledge skill points of the java language, such as "how to use java println()" and "how to use java data type Integer", this two points will be tested within one question. But the two points have no any categories and sub-categories relationship. So, we could just put 2 tags (such as "java method" and "java data type") to let the student finally know what the testing purpose of the question. By this way, if the student failed some question, then he can quickly find what skill he lacks, and also, he can quickly find the related questions in the system (if he has enough permission) via this Tags/Label design.
I found in the Future Releases Owen (March 2007), it gets something like this and I think perhaps my idea for the Quiz Portlet would be similar as the following.
Blog Improvements
......
Tags / Labels
Entry Rating System
I am not sure if I expressed myself clearly above, as a University student, I think the above two points will help the students more easily learn what they have learned.
If I understood something wrong or something I put above still unclear, just correct it!
Best regards, xiao
Ray Auge:
Ray Auge:sectional grouping of questions
Exactly, I was thinking of an organization akin to the MB where there is an infinit number of sub-categories, like sub-folders, such that you could classify questions in a very fine grained fashion.
- Java Questions
- Swing
- Event Handling
- Hard
- Multiple Choice
- 5 points
- 1 point
- Short answer
- 5 points
...
...
- Medium
- Easy
- UI Design
- Hard
- Easy
- SWT
- Event Handling
- UI Frame Works
- JFace
...
- J2EE
you get the idea... No limit on categorization depth.Dave Finch:I also think it may be worth considering supporting questions that consist of a flash movie, this will allow interactive questions with rich user interfaces and support drag & drop for example.
If we implement SCORM, this functionality will exist, as the SCORM APIs are all being "standardized". Not to mention that Adobe/Macromedia products (among other large content building software companies) are all producing tools which export to SCORM formats. We'd gain the ability to leverage these tools for develing content, and not only for educational purposes.
