[Building Sakai] Two Samigo Ideas

[Bryan Holladay]

CC-ing samigo-team list

#1:

This idea has come up with one of our clients.  I was thinking it
through and thought you could add an "Time exception" area under the
timed assessment time setting.  Here you could add additional time
settings.  So if 1 hour is default, you can add additional time values
then assign individuals or groups to this time.  This would  probably
require 2 tables: one for a list of time exceptions and the other for
group assignments.  I haven't looked into this and it isn't something
on my TODO list either.  These are just my 2 cents since it was
brought up.

-Bryan

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Paul Dagnall <pdagnall1 at udayton.edu> wrote:
> We're thinking about two Samigo enhancements. I thought I'd see if anyone
> has any thoughts on these before I start looking into them.
>
> 1. Assigning extended time to individual students from the Settings screen -
> The current procedure for assigning extended time is to duplicate the
> assessment and release it to a group that contains the student(s) that
> require(s) the extended time. Our faculty would prefer to have a list of
> students, similar to the list of groups on the Settings screen, and beside
> each name on the list the instructor could specify the amount of extended
> time if necessary.
>
> Programmatically, I think this would require a new table to keep track of
> the settings for every user for every assessment (and published assessment).
> The table's values would then get displayed on the settings screen where the
> instructor could then update those records.
>
>
> 2. Define the amount of questions per page without using Parts - Currently
> there are 3 options for Question Layout: 1 question/page, 1 part/page, or
> the whole test on one page. We're interested in a fourth setting to define
> an amount of questions per page, though we'd want it limited to between 2
> and 10. The idea is to strike a balance between the clickiness of one/page
> without forcing the instructor to divide the assessment into parts or risk
> data loss with everything on the same page. I think I remember hearing of
> some interest in this at the conference last month.
>
> This could be challenging. Perhaps I could copy and alter the procedure that
> displays single questions to instead pull in multiple based on the
> setting...
>
>
>
> I didn't see any tickets or work for these but I may have missed it. Please
> let me know if you have any ideas, suggestions, or warnings :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul Dagnall
> Application Developer & Administrator
> University of Dayton
>
>
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