Talk:Customizing Moodle to include efficient Examination Processes

I understand your reasoning about why this is potentially different from moodle. However, I would like to see some more discussion of how/when/why they could intersect, and how you would harmonize/integrate/avoid these cases.

Homunq 10:37, 7 April 2008 (EDT)

The system I proposed can be easily be developed as a part of extension to Moodle; because primarily both originate from the same domain, though each serving different purposes! My proposal was to keep this system aloof from Moodle, owing to the fact that extending this to Moodle and deploying it may be unnecessary; but as per mentor's feedback it seems now but obvious that OLPC is looking forward towards deploying Moodle at their school server. Hence I have changed my proposal accordingly (Wiki has not been updated yet to reflect it).

Abhicool 18:44, 10 April 2008 (IST)

Great, can't ask for a better answer than that! Now, as I said on IRC, my next priority would be having this usable offline, even if in some limited version, for students. Not sure if doing a xulrunner-style activity, a la SocialCalc, is feasible.

Second question: do you envision all questions as being computer-scorable, or do you have support for human grading? The latter can be much richer, but if you do it, some interface support for rubrics (including rubric file format and rubric construction - not sure if there are standards) would be a great bonus. Not asking you to throw the kitchen sink into GSoC - "future features" would be fine.

Homunq 10:29, 10 April 2008 (EDT)

Wiki has *now* been updated as well! Your point taken, having it usable locally at student's systems would be highly desirable feature (for practice and learning processes). It can be taken up as future scope; may be as a plug-in? Though working on it is highly dependent on how E-learning systems are deployed at OLPC.

About second question: The credit for various 'difficulty levels' will be template specific (and thus exam specific). You may count it as Rubrics when same template is used over and again... but if template changed then 'manual'. Hopefully I answered you? or if not please drop in your comments.

Thanks for showing interest and active feedback s.

Abhicool 20:14, 10 April 2008 (IST)