[Contrib: Evaluation System] Evaluations Testing Help

[Beth Kirschner]

Great -- thanks!

- Beth

On May 4, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Adam Marshall wrote:

> "The most comprehensive Evaluations System user guide in the Universe"
> 
> https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/step/surveys73.pdf 
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> There is a problem in that what you see (and have access to) in the UI depends on the configuration settings ("Administrate") so it is often difficult to know what should and shouldn't be happening.
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> We have got "question banks" disabled meaning we do not have "My Items" - I think this is what you are experiencing. We found Question Banks to be confusing and possibly buggy (I cant remember).
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> We have effectively done a lot of testing of template authoring - I will log the bugs as soon as I have time. 
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> The authoring functionality is vast and I suspect a thorough test plan would run to several hundred bullet points as there are so many different permutations. 
> 
> In our phone conf of about 6 months ago I did express scepticism that a thorough template authoring test plan could actually be designed. I don't have a solution though I'm afraid.
> 
> adam
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: evaluation-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:evaluation-
>> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Beth Kirschner
>> Sent: 04 May 2011 14:30
>> To: evaluation at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> Cc: Eugene Malin
>> Subject: [Contrib: Evaluation System] Evaluations Testing Help
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>>   UM has a part-time staff member (Eugene) who has been extremely
>> helpful with testing of Sakai/CTools releases in the past, but who does
>> not have any experience with Evaluations. He's willing to help with the
>> testing of Evaluations v1.3-RC but could use some help with the
>> features that UM typically doesn't use (we import our evaluations and
>> do not create them within the Evaluations admin interface). Has anyone
>> written any help documentation or any documentation (even institution-
>> specific) for the Evaluations tool?
>> 
>>   While I'm ever hopeful that there is documentation, I'll proceed
>> with the assumption that there's none and just forward Eugene's
>> question regarding the existing test plan. The existing test plan is to
>> "1) Create template. and 2) to Add several items from "My Items" bank
>> of questions. To do this, should I go to the Evalsys Admin tab? I can
>> Add Template with no problem, but I can't see a way to add existing
>> items from "My Items" bank of questions. I can only create new items.
>> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?"
>> 
>>   Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> - Beth
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