Overview

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

Pages

• Design Overview
  <p> General considerations regarding Assessment package data model.
• The Data Model
  <p> Summary of the entire datamodel for the Assessment package.
• Items
  <p> Design specs for the core subsystem of the Assessment package: Items
• Assessments and Sections
  <p> Specs for the "grouping" entities in an Assessment: Sections and Assessments themselves
• Sequencing
  <p> Specs for handling post-submission user response evaluation ("data validationi", "grading") and contingent user navigation
• Scheduling Subsystem
  <p> Datamodel components implementing deployment settings
• Scoring
  <p> How we plan to handle post-submission evaluation of user responses via "scoring" or "grading"
• Versioning
  <p> Discussion of design issues regarding handling entity reuse and modification during the lifecycle of an Assessment. Ugly stuff.
• Response-related Data Model
  <p> 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
  <p> Discussion of user interface issues: page flow, default page layout
• APIs
  <p> Discussion of specific APIs for Assessment package.
• Internationalization
  <p>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.