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Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference New OrleansCopyright © 1995-2004 Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved.

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2005 Users Conference New Orleans

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Training with the Techs:New Features in Perception Authoring

Wes Cloven



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Applications in the Big Picture

Windows-basedAuthoring Manager



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Authoring Manager Desktop



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Repository Bar



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NavigationPane



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Authoring Manager DesktopDisplayPane



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Preview/PropertiesPane



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Topic Folders



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Topic Folders Organize questions into

related groups By learning objective By discipline By competency

Build an entire hierarchy to reflect a competency model or a curriculum

Associate performance outcomes with topics

Assign Administrators to root topics for authoring security



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Assessment Folders



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Assessment Folders

Organize assessments into meaningful groups Department/Function Discipline Other organizational

unit

Assign administrators to root level folders for security



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Methods for Creating Questions Question Wizards Copy and Paste an existing question from

another topic And between repositories

Importing from a file QML ASCII – Needs definition IMS QTI XML



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Methods for Importing Items



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Importing from ASCII



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Question Wizard



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Question Wizard – Select type



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20 Question Types Captivate/

Robodemo Drag and Drop Essay Explanation Fill in Blanks Hotspot Likert Macromedia Flash Matching Matrix

Multiple Choice Multiple Response

Numeric Pull-down List Ranking Select a Blank Spoken Response Text Match True/False Yes/No



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20 Question Types Enable authors to create more interesting

and probing questions Reveals more information during an

assessment in a shorter time Not offered by simpler assessment tools in

LMS’s



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Compose Stimulus Stimulus can contain

multimedia for high-fidelity, scenario-based questions

Toolbar for what you see is what you get formatting

Embed links and variables without coding

Advanced editing mode for HTML markup and other coding



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Enter Choices, Feedback and Set Scores Choices and

feedback can contain multimedia

Toolbar for what you see is what you get formatting

Embed links to instructional content in feedback without coding



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Manage, Shuffle, and Align Choices

Shuffle choices for security All All but last All but last two

Align choices horizontally



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Question Description Helps you

identify question in lists and in reports

Can be used to record associated learning objective



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Question Menu



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Creating Assessments Assessment Wizard Copy and paste from one folder to another

folder And between repositories



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Assessment Wizard



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Assessment Name and Type Classify

assessment using pre-define types

Each type has default control settings in line with the purpose of the assessment



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Control Settings Each type of

assessment comes with default control settings

Select presentation template



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Select Questions Three methods for

adding questions to assessments

All from a topic Randomly from a

topic Single question



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Select Questions – All from topic



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Select Questions – Randomly from topic



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Select Questions – Single Question



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Outcomes and Feedback

Enable pass/fail for multiple outcomes Set threshold Tailor feedback

messages



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Outcomes and Feedback Embed links to

instructional content or URLs in feedback without any coding using toolbar functions



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Outcomes and Feedback Personalize feedback by inserting server

variables without any coding.



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Outcomes and Feedback

E-mail feedback to participants upon completion of assessment



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Storing Questions and Assessments Repository

Database of Questions Assessments

Resources – graphics, audio, video used in questions and feedback

Content – instructional content that can be a self-contained file such as PDF, Word, HTML with embedded Flash movie

Templates Contains all of the data, multimedia assets, and other

files that comprise your questions and assessments



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Storing Questions and Assessments

• Accessible by individual user

• No topic folder or assessment folder security

• Publish questions and assessments by:

• Copying and pasting to Shared Repository

• Publishing to Qpack

Local Repository• Accessible by multiple users

• Facilitates collaboration

• Simplifies publishing across network

• Additional security, requires login

• Shared Repository Manager to configure and set repository to be used by Perception Server

Shared Repository



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Local Repository

Local

Windows basedAuthoring Manager

Store items/questions, assessments, resources and content locally.



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Remote Repository

Internet or Intranet

Database server

Web server

Assessments

Questions

Store items/questions, assessments, resources, content remotely.




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Standard browsers(IE, Netscape, AOL, etc.)

Standard browsers(IE, Netscape, AOL, etc.)

Database server

QuestionmarkPerception

Server

Shared Repository

Assessments

Questions

Working with Repositories





Assessments

Questions

Local Repository




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Working with Repositories

Manage Repository

directlyDatabase

server

Web serverPublishing

using Qpacks

Authoring Manager

Publish from Localto Shared

(Copy and Paste)



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Resource Management

• Question resources organized by topic• Round-trip resource editing



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Content Management

• Content files organized by topic• Round-trip content editing



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Qpacks Compressed archives of topics, questions,

assessments, resources and content used for exchanging content between users or systems

Can include A single assessment An assessment folder containing multiple assesments A topic with its questions and related resources and

content

Qpacks can be imported into a repository with Windows-based Authoring or Browser-based Authoring



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Benefits Manage all elements of assessment

development in one integrated environment Customize interface to optimize productivity Embed multimedia and other content without

the need for programmers Manage items and assessments directly in

shared repository Changes effective immediately



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