Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Tiki for teaching and testing

[Dennis D. <dda...@ma...>]

Luis! You're right, I'll try documenting what Tiki already has in place 
for helping teachers and students. I've started a page to this effect here
http://alt.thetinfoilhat.com/tiki-index.php?page=Tiki%20Teaching%20Tool%20Path%20Forward

Individuals interested in helping Tiki become a CMS for education please 
feel free to contribute!

Dennis

luis wrote:
> Dennis,
> 
> Using Tiki as a tool for teaching is one of the top priorities of the
> Project. My suggestion to make things less messy is that you create a
> "Working group" with other users/developers interested in web-based
> e-learning tools and then produce a document containing:
> - what has to be changed in the current Tiki app, why and how.
> - what should be added to Tiki, and how, including priorities, 
>   screenshots of the feature in other products, links etc.
> Then me or other developers will use the document as a Roadmap to
> improve
> Tiki in subsequent versions.
> 
> Let me know if you think this is a good idea.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tik...@li...
> [mailto:tik...@li...] On Behalf Of Dennis
> Daniels
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:14 PM
> To: tik...@li...
> Subject: [Tikiwiki-devel] Tiki for teaching and testing
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> I'm seeking the aid of those who are interested in seeing/ using Tiki as
> 
> an instructional aid/ content delivery system in education environments.
> 
> Tiki could be a great tool for teachers and students, if for no other 
> reason than,"What is a classroom?" "A Content Generator that is in 
> desperate need of a Content Management System." I think Tiki is that 
> answer and I show it off as often as possible to other teachers...
> 
> I've started a couple of pages on how Tiki could be used to help 
> students/teachers/administrators/parents work towards their common goal:
> 
> better education resources for learners.
> 
> http://www.dennisgdaniels.com/tiki-index.php?page=Tiki%20for%20Teaching
> and
> http://www.dennisgdaniels.com/tiki-index.php?page=Tiki%20Slide%20Shows%2
> 0for%20Teaching
> in fact most of my site is dedicated to creating or distributing 
> education content...
> 
> However, I'm really struggling with is the quiz interface in Tiki. I've 
> begun doing some sample layouts for the template here:
> http://test.thetinfoilhat.com/tiki-index.php?page=TikiQuiz#
> 
> The current implemenation is decidedly unfriendly for teachers and 
> students. Case in point: I gave one of my more web skilled students a 
> little lesson on the Tiki quiz creation process (I've got about 60 
> questions to enter and the student gets a stipend for assisting) and 
> permissions to edit quizzes. He gave up after about 10 minutes... it was
> 
> too difficult. And I have to agree: The quiz creation interface is 
> contrary to the way quizzes are presented in their final form.
> 
> I'm asking those interested in tiki as an instructional aid (and know 
> more about SMARTY templates) to take a look at how the Quiz templates 
> could be better structured to mirror a finished quiz with all of it's 
> varieties of questions:
> 
> * multiple choice
> * check box (multiple selection)
> * ordering
> * matching
> * fill in the blank
> * short answer
> * short essay
> *etc.
> 
> Naturally reports on each question from each individual taking the quiz 
> would be nice... :)
> 
> I appreciate any help you can offer in making the tiki quiz interface 
> more user friendly!
> 
> thank you!
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
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