Index: openacs-4/packages/assessment/www/doc/user_interface/index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/assessment/www/doc/user_interface/index.html,v diff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 --- openacs-4/packages/assessment/www/doc/user_interface/index.html 4 Aug 2018 09:34:07 -0000 1.7 +++ openacs-4/packages/assessment/www/doc/user_interface/index.html 3 Sep 2024 15:37:35 -0000 1.8 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ package. It is a pool where all the questions from all assessments are stored in. This creates the opportunity to make the questions reusable, allowing for statistics across surveys and prevents the respondee from -having to fill out a question he has already filled out. Furthermore +having to fill out a question he has already filled out. Furthermore, special administrators are given the possibility to add questions that do not store the results within the scope of the assessment package but in other database tables (e.g. the name of the user) or trigger some @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ test results. In addition to this, it will provide functionality to other packages to allow rating of their contents (one example of this would be Lars Rating package, that would be used as a basis for this). -In general it should provide a very flexible way of adding scores into +In general, it should provide a very flexible way of adding scores into the system, either automatically (as described above) or manually (e.g. this student did a good oral exam).
In addition to the possibility to enter scores/rates, the grading @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ the result of all the tests a respondee did in addition to any manual grades the professor can come up with. Providing a clean UI for this is going to be the challenge.
-Furthermore the grading package offers to transfer scores (which are +
Furthermore, the grading package offers to transfer scores (which are stored as integer values) into a grade (e.g. the american A-F scheme, or the German 1-6). This is where it gets the name from I'd say ;). Grading schemes are flexible and can be created on the fly. This allows @@ -112,12 +112,12 @@ information. When signing up to a site the user could be asked to fill out an assessment where part of the questions will be stored in the acs_users table, some other questions in other tables and the rest in -the accessment package. This way a quick view can be given about the +the assessment package. This way a quick view can be given about the user (aggregating user information in a flexible way). Best explanation would be to treat the /pvt/home page as a collection of assessment data and the "change basic information" as one assessment among many.
With a little bit of tweaking and the possibility to add instant -gratification, a.k.a. aggregated result display, it could include the poll +gratification, aka aggregated result display, it could include the poll package and make it redundant.
Last but not least with the ability to display questions in a multi dimensional way to the user, the assessment system is useful for