[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] Large Scale Quizzing

[Luke Fernandez]

Just for clarification was the recent wired campus article about the
eval challenges at Michigan associated with the use of the evaluation
system tool?  Or was it something else?

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3734/umich-online-teaching-evaluation-system-fails

Is there a way in a technical nutshell to describe what the challenge
was? (e.g. load 'cuz of an unoptimized query, etc.?)

Luke

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Ricci, Margaret P <mricci at indiana.edu> wrote:
> On a related note, Stephen, since you seem to be using T&Q, how are you finding it to behave in large sites?  We are considering it at Indiana, but we are concerned about how well it scales.  The rumors are that when we tried it before, it didn't scale well.  It seems like you folks would be a good test since you are using it on such a large scale.
>
> Thanks,
> Maggie
>
>
> Margaret Ricci
> Instructional Technology Consultant and Developer
> Teaching and Learning Technologies Centers
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Marquard
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:47 AM
> To: Sakai Dev; Sakai; Dave McPherson
> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Large Scale Quizzing
>
> We have successfully used the contrib Evaluation System to deliver a survey to a site with 27000 users in it (4000+ responses). EvalSys will not associate a response with a username though in the export as its designed for anonymous surveys (unless you tweak the code to do so).
>
> We recently also had T&Q in a similarly sized site, but had problems exporting the results until we dropped the site membership of the site (then the export worked fine).
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
>>>> Dave McPherson <dmcphers at vt.edu> 05/13/09 5:33 PM >>>
> Hi,
>
> We are considering using Sakai to deploy  a large scale survey to our
> faculty on VT's campus.  This would be around 3,500 respondents to a
> single question quiz. We would need to know who answered each quiz and
> then be able to export the answers to an external application.  I'm
> wondering if anyone has done anything like this in the past or if they
> know of any limitations in Sakai that would make this a bad idea.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave McPherson
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