User:Fasten/TestWiki

The project was originally intended as a CSL project but seems to be too useful for the OLPC itself.

TestWiki

The TestWiki will allow to generate multiple-choice tests and other tests in a wiki and to annotate those tests publicly or privately using the wiki syntax.

Tags of the TestWiki syntax will be in their own sub-namespace "TestWiki"

{{TestWiki::Tag}}

Question types

Question types will include multiple-choice, grouping, table choice, ordering and comparison with expressions. A complex question will be able to combine several questions types (e.g. making a comparison the right answer in a multiple-choice test).

The software will be able to ask questions out of order and will keep track of successful answers to questions, showing successfully answered questions less often. The software will also be able to mix questions from several modules.

Categories

TestWiki will allow to group tests into course modules with the modul tag:

{{TestWiki::Module|<page>}}

The module tag marks content as part of a course module. Additionally test authors and users will be able to add their own non-standard categories independently. (Every user will have his own namespace of categories and will be able to ignore author categories.)

Templates

{{TestWiki::}}-tags will be invisible or appear as comments when a test page is edited with the MediaWiki software.

Test format

Tests will be formatted in XML in order to allow a well-defined and exchangable database format for test databases.