Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Request for advice from the OCT

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Posted by Stan Kaufman on
Way back in November 2003 when we first posted up our discussion of how to handle conditional processing aka "sequencing" in Assessment (see https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/packages/assessment/specs/sequencing) we explicitly alluded to the IMS SS and QTI specs and summarized their basic components -- and discussed how our schema basically implements the appropriate parts of their concepts. Our subsequent refinement (see https://openacs.org/projects/openacs/packages/assessment/design/sequencing) has been up since March (looking at the version history).

What I can't discern from the above debate is where this schema fails with respect to the IMS specs -- which are themselves simultaneously incomplete and obtuse. We didn't set out to try to slavishly implement the IMS specs; we wanted to create a robust, generic mechanism to handle conditional processing within a data collection package. That still seems to me to be the appropriate goal here.

What I'm looking for is a clear description where our schema falls short, and more importantly concrete suggestions for how to improve it. Frankly, we've been hoping for that kind of constructive input for months.