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Design

Overview

In this section are discussions of design issues and decisions concerning the Assessment package data model, user interface, and APIs.

Pages

• Design Overview -

  General considerations regarding Assessment package data model.

• The Data Model -

  Summary of the entire datamodel for the Assessment package.

• Items -

  Design specs for the core subsystem of the Assessment package: Items

• Assessments and Sections -

  Specs for the "grouping" entities in an Assessment: Sections and Assessments themselves

• Sequencing -

  Specs for handling post-submission user response evaluation ("data validationi", "grading") and contingent user navigation

• Scheduling Subsystem -

  Datamodel components implementing deployment settings

• Scoring -

  How we plan to handle post-submission evaluation of user responses via "scoring" or "grading"

• Versioning -

  Discussion of design issues regarding handling entity reuse and modification during the lifecycle of an Assessment. Ugly stuff.

• Response-related Data Model -

  Discussion of entities that store information generated by Assessments.

• Display functionality - Specification on how the items of an assessment are to be displayed within a section. Might evolve into a specification for widget attributes in general.
• User Interface -

  Discussion of user interface issues: page flow, default page layout

• APIs -

  Discussion of specific APIs for Assessment package.

• Internationalization -

  Description on how to tackle internationlization of content for the assessment system. Will be done through the CR.

• Response Handling - How will responses be stored in the system and how shall response retrieval work.