[Building Sakai] mneme status

[Charles Hedrick]

My apologies. My posting wasn't clear. Our problems have been with Samigo. So I'm asking the community about the status of Mneme, since I'm considering using it as an alternative.

On Dec 28, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Vivie Sinou wrote:

> 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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