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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Ah right ok, I’ve not fully explored what’s possible from the other templates yet – I always assume that it’s all been incorporated into the Nottingham one now…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ll take a look and see how we could adapt it and if I get something working then I’lll share…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 20, 2013 1:48 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Randomised assessment with automatically generated parameters/variables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">We’ve done a lot of stuff like that, but not so much in toolkits, I think because things are too general to generalise without understanding what class of problems you want to generate, and there
are many classes of problem. If you look at the template ‘numerical calculations’ you’ll see an attempt at it that we used in the faculty of engineering for a while, which IIRC, took a formula, defined variables for it, and ranges for them, and then did much
of what you say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">We could start from there and make an HTML5 one. The trick will making it FWS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Smith, John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 20 May 2013 12:44<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Randomised assessment with automatically generated parameters/variables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Picked this up from the other list but thought I’d circulate it here for discussion. This is something we’d also like to do and I’m surprised there isn’t a page type to do this already as it seems doable and
worthwhile…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Has this kind of thing ever been done and I’m just not seeing a way of doing it, other than manually via MCQ? We have numeracy requirements etc and it would be good to define a set of x questions to be randomly
created based on range and precision settings. Could do in Flash but don’t want to now we have the html5 stuff…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We also have a load of XML files from an Authorware thing that was used here a few years ago to drive this and I’m going to see if I can produce a page type that will load and parse that to emulate what they
did before in AW. Won’t commit that if I do go down that route but would prefer to commit something everyone could use even if we have to convert all our XML to a different format to make it more compatible with the community requirements…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">What do people think?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">John Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Learning Technologist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">School of Health & Life Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Glasgow Caledonian University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Sheppard, Nick<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 20, 2013 12:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Selling xerte to colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have an academic colleague who currently uses CourseLab – I was telling him about xerte and he raised the following points if anyone could comment (I know can output as SCORM but not familiar enough with xerte on the
other point):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">What I would need from such an authoring tool:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">- SCORM-compatibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB">- wide interactivity through programming, preferably Javascript, to allow randomised assessment with automatically generated parameters/variables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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