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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Right now you can add questions to the quiz and then just select 10 from say 25 questions in that quiz, but not from a separate bank.<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'>As Pat says, it would be easy to make a wizard for building questions, and then you can link to that xml from the template. QTI would be relevant – but probably make things more complicated (we have found that unless questions banks are QTI, staff are very reluctant to invest time in creating the questions, because good questions take ages to write, and you want to be able to reuse them).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US 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>Pat @ Pgogy <br><b>Sent:</b> 20 May 2013 19:29<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></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Create new template type<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>It only supports questions<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Make new page type which access the XML for this<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Templates as libraries<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 20 May 2013, at 16:21, "Smith, John" <<a href="mailto:J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk">J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Can that be done just now? How do you do it?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John Smith</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Learning Technologist</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>School of Health & Life Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Glasgow Caledonian University</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><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>Pat @ Pgogy <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 20, 2013 2:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> For Xerte technical developers<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: Randomised assessment with automatically generated parameters/variables.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>What about a question bank template you could use and draw into other quizzes?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 20 May 2013, at 12:43, "Smith, John" <<a href="mailto:J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk">J.J.Smith@gcu.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><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…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></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…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></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…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>What do people think?</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John Smith</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Learning Technologist</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>School of Health & Life Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Glasgow Caledonian University</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><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</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>What I would need from such an authoring tool:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- SCORM-compatibility<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- wide interactivity through programming, preferably Javascript, to allow randomised assessment with automatically generated parameters/variables.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span 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