[Building Sakai] mneme status

[Vivie Sinou]

Charles,

We support over 270,000 enrollments a year in our production, administering
hundreds of thousands of exams through Mneme. As the manager who is
responsible for addressing critical issues reported across all of our
colleges' help desks, I can tell you that we've had zero failures in Mneme.
Supporting distance learning 24/7, we wouldn't survive without a super
reliable assessment engine. We've been running Mneme in production since
Dec. 2007.

Instructors do find mistakes in their tests after they were released to
students, but Mneme is very forgiving. It sounds like you may have not
looked at Mneme since its first generation. As of 2-3 years ago, Mneme
allows instructors to make all kinds of changes to their assessments even if
they are published: they can change any wording in the text of questions or
instructions; they can also change the text of the answer key, dates, time
limit, tries, feedback, hints, etc; and they can even change the point value
of the questions. When clicking on 'save', Mneme rescores all the exams
automatically and sends the updated scores to the gradebook. 

The only thing we don't allow instructors to do after a test is published is
to delete questions or add questions, but they can change any of the content
and points of existing ones. 

Please feel free to contact us at dev at etudes.org with any Mneme questions. 

Happy Holidays! 

Best,
Vivie

--
Vivie Sinou
Executive Director, Etudes, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
[mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Charles
Hedrick
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 7:10 AM
To: Developers Sakai-Dev
Subject: [Building Sakai] mneme status

What is other institutions' experience with Mneme? This semester we've had
two fairly serious problems with tests not submitting properly or losing
data. The biggest weaknesses all seem to be in timed tests, but those are
typically used in situations where reliability is most important. Our
institution has high requirements for reliability of Sakai. It's getting to
the point where I'm not sure we can live with Samigo. We haven't looked
seriously at Mneme because it is missing things that people use, e.g. the
ability to edit assessment that have been published. But I think we may
prefer reliability over features.


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