[Sugar-devel] Assessment in Karma

[Gary C Martin]

On 29 Jul 2009, at 06:40, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

> As previously mentioned by Bryan in his "Automated Assessment is the  
> Killer App" blog post (http://karmaproject.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/assessment-is-the-killer-app/ 
> ) student assessment is an important component of Karma.
>
> While toying around with the lesson UI I realized that the  
> assessment area is still very much an empty space (which kinda  
> reminds me of the group view in Sugar;-)

Feedback most welcome (or else you may get something you don't  
like)! ;-b

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Groups

Regards,
--Gary

> as we haven't really discussed how it should look, what kind of data  
> will be kept (which is of course heavily dependent on the type of  
> lesson), how the data will be stored, etc. To keep the efforts  
> required to do that in check I think that it might make sense to  
> start by offering a handful of templates - both on the UI and  
> storage backend side of things - to fit the most common use-cases in  
> terms of different lesson types (e.g.inserted words into sentences,  
> doing calculations, etc.)
>
> Now I was wondering whether anyone here had specific suggestions on  
> how to address this or pointers to how other e-learning solutions  
> (regardless of whether stand-alone applications or Web based) solve  
> this interesting challenge.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Christoph
>
> -- 
> Christoph Derndorfer
> co-editor, olpcnews
> url: www.olpcnews.com
> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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