[LON-CAPA-users] IMS package imports

[Mills, Douglas G]

Hi Gerd,

At this point we're in the planning stages, so that's why ideally I'd like
to identify a standard that will work with Lon Capa as well as hopefully
other standards-compliant systems. At this point, we don't have original
source code yet. One possibility would be to have those doing the data entry
use Respondus set to the "QTI 1.1+" personality, so I guess I could send a
sample of that, but I'm not sure that's the way we'd go. My thought was
rather to set up a web database for the students entering questions to use
and then when they submit a record (a multiple choice question), wrap it in
XML conforming to the IMS QTI 2.0 or possibly another version of that
standard so that the questions are stored in the database ready to be
imported into Lon Capa or other compliant system. OR with everything clearly
labeled, they'd be able to be manipulated hopefully for other uses as well.
That's the sketchy idea at the moment.  I will gladly receive redirection!

Thank you,

Doug


On 4/23/10 11:41 AM, "Gerd Kortemeyer" <korte@lite.msu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The reason that the IMS Import is CMS-dependent is that the standard is not
> really implemented well in most any CMS. What you get from each one of them is
> some sort of strange "dialect" with extensions, etc.
> 
> The standards all sound great, but once reality kicks in ...
> 
> ... what system are you porting from? Can you send me examples of original
> source code?
> 
> - Gerd.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Mills, Douglas G wrote:
> 
>> HI All,
>> 
>> Weıre looking at creating a testbank of old exam questions and are trying to
>> think through best case scenario for usability of these questions going
>> forward. One strong use case would be bringing them into Lon Capa. I see that
>> Lon Capa has the ability to ³Import IMS package² but in the dialogue that
>> opens the options given are based on CMS used to create the package. In  our
>> case, weıd likely be looking at generating these ourselves to conform to one
>> of the IMS QTI standards (1.1 can apparently be generated by Respondus, so
>> that might be a possibility; 2.0 is the current final QTI version).  Has
>> anyone done work along these lines or otherwise able to offer
>> recommendations/suggestions? It does occur to me that I could hope that one
>> of the four CMS Import options offered in Lon Capa corresponds to an IMS
>> standard but thought Iıd ask for experiences and recommendations here. Thank
>> you,
>> 
>> Doug
>> 
>> Douglas Mills
>> Director of Instructional Technologies
>> Department of Chemistry
>> University of Illinois
>> dmills@illinois.edu
>> (217) 244-5739
>> 
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Douglas Mills
Director of Instructional Technologies
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
dmills@illinois.edu
(217) 244-5739