[Building Sakai] Reaction: Sakai course on CD

[Mark Norton]

Yes, this is a reasonable response to the security issue.  It just means 
delayed submission of test responses once internet connectivity is 
restored.  Interactive assessment, of the kind more typically found in 
SCORM modules is low stakes.  While students can cheat, they are only 
cheating there own learning.  This kind of testing is not usually graded.

-Mark

Peter Crowther wrote:
>> From: Mike Ozornin
>> Maybe it's possible to change Quizes export to export them
>> cryptes with some symmetric-key algorithms.
>>     
>
> Depends how strong you need the defence to be.  We looked at this for a project that allowed a student to "detach" a personal learning environment from the parent VLE, and where the student could take some content offline with them.  We chose not to allow answers to be taken offline in a form where they could be used by the PLE.  Our rationale was that, sooner or later, the answer would exist in unencrypted form in the machine's memory; that we had no control over what was looking at that memory (for example, the PLE could be running inside a virtual machine that could be inspected); and that therefore we could not guarantee the security of the answers against disclosure.
>
>                 - Peter
> _______________________________________________
> sakai-dev mailing list
> sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send email to sakai-dev-unsubscribe at collab.sakaiproject.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"
>
>