Forum OpenACS Q&A: Experience with Online Tests?

Meanwhile, I put together a fairly simple app which does online testing and shows correct answers (and lets test-takers argue with the correct answers) and uploaded it to the repository just today.  It's called "Vocabulary" and you can install it from the repository, or see it (with some sample data) at aufrecht.org/vocabulary.  If a standard solution ever shows up in OpenACS, I'll modify my package to use it instead.

Do you mean something like this: http://aufrecht.org/pictures/base-photo?photo_id=14200

But as this work would be redundant, I'd advise not to go down that road but wait for the 4-6 months til assessment get's released. Mind me beeing very cautious here, but we are facing a complex system which we somehow have to integrate into the grading book functionality as well (if you have an assessment you can add points to each question, which will be aggregated and delivered to the grade system depending on the answer.). This is a whole different story though and we need to be very careful how best to integrate without reimplementing a lot of functionality again (after all, if you have free text answers that have to be graded manually, you need to add this functionality as well).

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It is an Oracle only test package that allows you to create tests. Each test have sections, and the sections have questions. Questions can have one or multiple answers. For each question, you can have a wrong or correct message to display to the user. Also you can set up a passing score for each test (a percentaje of questions).

A cool feature that has is that it allows you to set the order you want the question rendered within a section. So you can choose to have an X number of question randomly picked from a larger pool of questions.

In addition it has the killer-question concept. Although you might be getting all answers right, if you answered wrong a question that was a killer-question, you automatically fail (regardless of your previous answers).

I can't really recall all the details, but it has a good bunch of features you might find interesting.

Malte is working on the assessment tool and that the specs sound very very cool. Maybe it would be worth it to work with him and others on this.

Ernie