Uniqurate and QTIDI Projects Paul Neve - Kingston University Sue Milne & Niall Barr – University of Glasgow Feedback-Rich Formative Assessment

Partners Technical partners: Client partners: Informal partners:

Tools Uniqurate: Uniqurate editor – Authoring, Editing, Packaging QTI Delivery Integration – QTIDI: LTI Connector – connect VLE with delivery software Delivery software : LTIQuizzes – deliver basic question types QTIWorks – all-singing, all-dancing delivery – includes facilities for Maths

Uniqurate – user-led design Uniqurate project: JISC Assessment and Feedback programme Objective: increase usage of QTI in HE by transferring technology from existing tools into "client" institutions Client partners describe what they need for teaching Uniqurate derived from user-experience driven Aqurate and multiple interaction power of Mathqurate Result – hopefully –a useful tool for authoring QTI content accessible to any user

Uniqurate - Question components Constituent parts providing functionality between question/exercise and student May map onto QTI elements – but may not! – hence the term question component “What do you want the question to do?” Questions typically composed of several components Several inputs in one question Identify components that provide optimal benefit

Uniqurate - modes Friendly mode – drag & drop components Intermediate mode – edit HTML parts of existing files: ideal for contextualising Expert mode – XML editor: customise questions when more control needed

Uniqurate - output As QTI XML file As packaged QTI XML file As package containing QTI XML file and media: images, stylesheets, etc.

Uniqurate – checking your question QTI Works will render all of the Uniqurate questions – accessible direct from Uniqurate question editorhttps://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/qtiworks/ Jassess support.gla.ac.uk/qtiv2ipspkge/SourceFiles/examples/ JAssessIntro.html (or ZIP file available from Sue) will run all Uniqurate questionshttp://qti- support.gla.ac.uk/qtiv2ipspkge/SourceFiles/examples/ JAssessIntro.html

Uniqurate – tests Assemble questions into a test Choose settings Output is a zip file containing the test and all the questions

Uniqurate – checking your test QTI Works will validate Uniqurate tests, but does not yet run themhttps://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/qtiworks/ Jassess support.gla.ac.uk/qtiv2ipspkge/SourceFiles/examples/ JAssessIntro.html (or ZIP file available from Sue) will run all Uniqurate testshttp://qti- support.gla.ac.uk/qtiv2ipspkge/SourceFiles/examples/ JAssessIntro.html

LTI Connector for VLEs Learning System Our simple QTI 2.1 Assessment Tool - LTIQuizzes Connecty thing (LTI ) Our fancy QTI 2.1 Assessment Tool – QTI Works

LTIQuizzes - basic delivery software Connects to VLE through LTI Connector Basic interactions: multiple-choice, drop-down, short text, numerical input… (several in one question if required) Numerical randomisation Feedback targeted on expected inputs Supports most of Uniqurate’s questions

QTIWorks – QTIv2.1 delivery software Validates questions and tests – reports problems Supports all QTIv2.1 UK HE profile Supports input and manipulation of Maths expressions Full randomisation, including Maths expressions Feedback may be targeted on analysis of input Connects to VLE through LTI Connector … available late summer 2012

QTIWorks – QTIv2.1 delivery software Validates questions and tests – reports problems Supports all QTIv2.1 UK HE profile Supports input and manipulation of Maths expressions Full randomisation, including Maths expressions Feedback may be targeted on analysis of input Connects to VLE through LTI Connector … question delivery already available, tests expected in October 2012

Installation? Uniqurate – web application – no installation, just go to LTI Connector – Moodle, Blackboard and Sakai VLEs are LTI- enabled, so it needs someone (normally a system admin) to add tool URLs and shared secrets in the LTI configuration page. LTIQuizzes – a single.war file needs to be copied to a Tomcat server, then an XML configuration file is edited to add the LTI details (server names and shared secrets). QTIWorks – online demo at

Links... Uniqurate – web application – no installation, just go to QTIWorks – online demo at QTI Support Site (examples, tools, resources...) support.gla.ac.ukhttp://qti- support.gla.ac.uk QTI-PET Cloud Moodle QTI-PET partners’ Moodle course (for reports and suggestions)

Hands-on 1 – Authoring Questions Multi-input question 1: Picture of a rainbow (from web) Ask what it is Text input Put colours in order Multi-input question 2: Picture of cylindrical object (beans tin, oil drum, slurry store...) Ask what it is Select to identify the object Maths component for volume of contents