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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(See also my previous post.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Feedback I have received so far from this list and further afield suggests that a number of people are interested in this type of product.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Some work has already been done on this. For example, Maple TA can apparently do some or all of what I want, and there are several other interesting systems which have been developed around the country (including Nottingham, as Claire Chambers has pointed out!).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>What is less clear so far is the extent to which any of the existing systems can export questions in forms suitable for inputting into a variety of other systems, e.g. Moodle and Rogo etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There certainly appears scope for collaboration with a number of interested groups around the country on question design and implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Does anyone know whether existing systems can generate question banks of the type I suggested, and then export them in a variety of standard formats? This might also be a possible direction worth pursuing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I am interested in making the product as widely available and as useful as possible. Generally I am biased towards generating free products, to maximize uptake and impact. But I suppose there might be some associated commercial possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Joel<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Dr J. Feinstein Tel: +44-115-9514968<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Pure Mathematics FAX: +44-115-9514951<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> Nottingham NG7 2RD Web: http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/~jff<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> United Kingdom Blog: http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>