[Using Sakai] Any workarounds for special needs / individual assessments / settings?

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hi Dave
The Samigo team at Stanford is aware of this need--it exists on our campus as well and our instructors handle it much like Rutgers. Last year, Stanford initiated a multi-campus research and design project to look forward toward learning activities needs (test & quiz functionality included) but mostly with an eye towards Sakai 3.0. This came up more than once among the 8 campuses involved and making sure we plan for this type of flexibility up front is part of the vision statement that came out of that research (see slide 14 of http://www.slideshare.net/keli.amann/denver-learning-activities-061610). To the extent that I can push for this vision to be included as part of the managed S3 project, I am (I am working as a functional analyst on the S3 project and we are just this week looking toward writing "minispecs" for assignment submission--this is definitely on my list).

In the immediate short term, I think you would need to handle it like Rutgers. In the medium term, I'm bcc'ing our development and design team for this to be considered for samigo 2.9 (samigo is on independent release). To be frank, we try to handle what we can with our limited staff, but we may be looking to solve this with 3.0, if the architecture is more conducive to this and current workarounds are livable. More votes and input (and particularly offers of help) on SAK-13107 could help to push this forward.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University

----- Original Message -----
From: "sheflin" <sheflin at rci.rutgers.edu>
To: "Luke Fernandez" <luke.fernandez at gmail.com>
Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org, "Sakai-Dev" <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 5:12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Any workarounds for special needs / individual assessments / settings?


Hi - I did this successfully last Spring at Rutgers for 700 students (3 sections) of Intro Economics. I created a group for such students, and for each weekly assignment, copied the multiple choice assessment and gave it a new name, with the settings set to give extra time and released to members of the group. No problem all semester. I did have to copy the grades in gradebook (2) to the field for the original assignment (i.e. from hw2extratime to hw2). 

Luke Fernandez wrote: 

We coded a feature that caters to those JIRA needs in our homegrown
system about two years ago and its very popular.  One piece of
functionality that is left out of the JIRA issue is the ability to
specify that a particular student be allowed to take the test at an
alternative testing center (in the below case it would be our
disabilities center).

Prior to this feature being in place faculty would have to create a
copy of the test for the individual students who had special needs.
That approach is cumbersome for a whole slew of reasons.

Cheers,

Luke

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Dave Ross <dave.ross at gmail.com> wrote: 

Hi,

We (still) want to move towards Tests & Quizzes as our primary
assessment delivery mechanism - however our need to support special
needs on an individual level has hampered our ability to use it for
anything beyond a non-credit quiz or survey.

There is a long standing JIRA on this ( http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-13107 )  - but at this point
I'm trying to understand how other schools work around this
shortcoming...

What do you do when a student (or group of students) need different
assessment settings than everyone else? How does this flow into
grading, etc?

Help is truly appreciated...

Thanks!

-Dave
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