Dokeos 1.8 Roadmap

Some new config settings:

• enable / disable tool introductions (default=off)
• sort the documents (default on or off ???)
• navigation menu: none, text only, icons only, icons and text
• navigation menu position: left, right, top, bottom, ...
• time limit of who is online
• what should be displayed in the breadcrumbs as link to the course homepage: 'this course' , course code, course name (shortened to X characters?)
• use AWACS to determine which fields are really required when registering
• AWAC that switches on or off the default documents, default tests, ... This is a choice between a course that contains already some example material or a completely empty course.
• registration as course admin: not allowed, allowed, allowed but approval of admin required
• registration: not allowed, allowed, allowed but approval of admin required
• account is valid: forever, registration date + time period
• config settings for space: studentpublications, dropbox (per person), ...
• setting for the choice of the wysiwyg editor
• enable/disable user image in forum.
• User can use their own language in this course / Users have to use course language

no solution for both right hand menu and central menu. There is

breadcrumbs: 'this course', course code or course title (shortened to x

possibilities to configure and edit homepage content to display general

current right menu after login, the other via platform admin section) to be consistent => only difference really is that in one the teacher name is taken automatically from the login, in the other the

(see also the already existing AWAC: 'Display Course Code in Course

Coursecode when creating a course: when this is not entered the default CL code is used. Maybe it is better to change this to the x characters of the title (stripping out special characters and spaces). This can easily be accomplished by adding the following code on line 146 of create_course/add_course.php

The input is a string(20) and in the database it is a string(40). If the code is already in the db it adds some extra characters. If however (using the situation above) we use the title to create a course and obtain a string (40) than this can no longer work and we would have to do it the other way around: take the last character of the code string(40) and shuffle this one untill we have one that is unique

default tests, ... This is a choice between a course that contains

setting to disable this. How will teachers disable any sorting they

PNGs and Word into HTML. It should be able to disable this through the platform admin and happen only on upload of a ppt (perhaps add

Eric Marguin

(I suggest in this case it does like MS Word : give the first letters

Some don't see the validate button (it is too much in the bottom) => remove the description from THIS screen (add comment only when editing which makes it consistent with the procedure for adding a folder). some have nothing to tell in the description field and feel embarassed of that, slowering their validation process

Some woul like to start from a template => Finetuning of FCKeditor

Creating a document  can take 30 minutes. Then the session is lost and all data too. My solution: refresh an invisible frame as long as somebody uses any token of the wysiwyg editor. Nothing more upsetting than loosing one's data.Check with Olivier Cauberghe (UGent who has code for this).
solution: when session is lost message appears simply store all the post information in temp database together with the ip, the course code, ... When the user logs back in you could display a message: you have some information that has been lost. Do you want to recover it? (like word does it)

fold/unfold list of directories on the left (platform setting) with possibility to hide this. Just look at the windows file browser note: There is code available for this in the DOKEOS_LCMS branch. Bmollet 12:11, 15 March 2006 (CET)

The design of the new quiz tool was based on feedback from users on the users day and on the forum, analysis by Ali Pakdal, feature analysis of what is possible in Claroline and in Moodle. The feature list is quite extensive and it will probably require a major rewrite of the code.

Nomenclatura: Use clear and uniform terminology: Tests in french, Oefeningen in Dutch. Not the same idea.
The quiz is hierarchical but this is not so obvious: one quiz(exercise or test) consists of several questions. A question has a question title, possible answers, a hint (missing) and feedback.
Find an agreement on this nomenclatura.

make the tool more structured. In the ideal situation there are a limited set of screens:

• overview of all the quizes that are available. The layout here has to be consistent with all the other tools. This means moving all the action icons (edit, delete, export to IMS/QTI, visibility, ...) to one column, nog grey lines under each quiz but using alternating colors like sortable table (maybe use sortable table)
  
  
  

  

  Overview of all quizes
  
  
• overview of a quiz (the quiz, all the questions and all the possible answers to the questions (see screenshot)
  (Move up/down icons appear only if the quiz does not shuffle the questions)

through clicking on Student View, not on Tests > Test title (incoherent with the rest of Dokeos). ON the other hand, when in LP : once seeing it in Stud view, you should be back to Teacher view when

Some screens will have a lot of options. Related options should be grouped together and structured logically. It would be good if the platform admin could (des)activate some features of the test tool so that it can be made easier if needed.

possible screens:

• overview of the available quizes.
  
  

  

  Overview of all quizes
  
  
  • actions links: add new quiz, import hotpotatoe quiz, link to question pool (on the right).
  • item icons: edit, visibility, delete, export
  • Status icon showing if the user already executed the test or not. If (s) he did execute it the score could be displayed there. If the user is allowed to retake the test / see the test again / ... then it the link to do the test might or might not be available
• overview of a quiz.
  
  

  

  Overview of a quiz
  
  
  • action link: add new question, add question from the pool.
  • item icons (quiz, blue): edit, visibility, delete, export
  • item icons (question, grey): edit, delete, visibility, move up/down
  • item icons (possible answers, white): edit, delete
• screen to add / edit a new quiz .
  
  

  

  Add or edit a quiz
  
  

  This page becomes very complex and cluttered. There are a few possible solutions to solve this:

  1. it is completely configurable by the platform admin (default situation = the functionality that we have in the quiz tool of dokeos 1.6).
  2. Another solution is that the creation is wizard driven: step 1: select the users/ groups, step 2: start and end date, step 3: title, comment and attachement, step 4, ....
  3. We could also choice the default/advanced pattern
  
  
  

  

  default options
  

  

  All options
  
  
• screen to add / edit a question
  
  

  

  Add or edit a question
  
  
• screen to add / edit the possible answers. The layout of this will be different for every question type.
• screens for the question pool (to allow randomisation & re-use). A decission on the question pool has to be taken. Is the a box of templates or real questions (editing a question in the question pool => do the questions in the quiz change also?)

New Quiz (separate this in a default section and and advanced section)

• quiz title
• quiz comments
• feedback

  do not show the correct answers to the students / show the correct

  answers after every question / show the correct answers at the end of the quiz
  
  • Feedback after complete quiz: Q1 -> Q2 -> Q3 ->
  feedback of Q1, Q2, Q3 (question, possible answers, your answer (green if correct, red if incorrect), feedback
  
  • Feedback after each question: Q1 -> Feedback Q1 -> Q2
  -> Feedback Q2 -> Q3 -> ...
• result (scores): show results to the student / do not show the results to the student (example: when there is a question with an open answer then the results won't relevant since the open answer won't be quoted yet), after a given date.
• checkbox: shuffle the questions
• add attachments
• timer: students have x minutes to complete the quiz. It should be possible that a user can only have X minutes to complete the quiz. This is a setting for the quiz. We could also foresee this for every individual question but I doubt if this is useful (and this certainly adds extra complexity because the sum of all the time of the individual questions must be equal to the time of the quiz).
• timing: the quiz is available from date X to date Y, quiz start and end date. This can easily be added if the quiz is added to the item_property table which already has these tables.
• quiz target users/groups: everybody, selected users/groups This can easily be added if the quiz is added to the item_property table which already has these tables.
• questions per page: 1,2,3, ... all
• advance to the next question only if the previous was correct. This is only relevant in the multipage quiz. This can be usefull in a learning path but this requires that multiple attempts (of the question, not the quiz) are possible. (disable with javascript)
• is the user allowed to go back to a previous question or not? (only relevant in multipage quizes). If the student returns then his/her answers have to be displayed
• attempts allowed: unlimited, limited by X default 1. This setting tells if the quiz can be done only once (real exam or survey) or several times (self tests). This was one of the features that was asked several times in Curios. Initially it was only possible to take a quiz only once but we had to change this since a lot of users asked this
• penality for retrying
• shuffle: random order of the questions inside the quiz
• random questions out of question pool (this can become very powerfull especially if the question pool is worked out better). example: 5 random questions of pool A (easy questions), 3 random of pool B (more difficult ones), 1 question of pool C (very difficult questions). When this approach is selected we also have to store which questions the user has got.

New Question

• question title
• question comment
• add attachments to the question + to the possible answers + to the feedback + to the hint through the resourcelinker so that a course material can be used. An example: a physics question could display a real life situation. The hint could then contain a pdf (that is in the document tool) with all the formulas of the course.
  An alternative to this is that the wysiwyg editor has a feature that allows browsing the course material of the course. For documents this is not really a problem (and links could also be added) but the problem is that other course material cannot be used (for instance a forum discussion).
• type:
  • multiple choice
  • multiple response
  • matching
  • fill in the blanks
  • open answer with a limited number of characters (counter counting the number of characters that are left).(max X characters with counter)(new)
  • hotspot (new)
• Hint (+resourcelinker): This can be very helpful in self tests. The score that can be obtained for the question after a hint has been used should be lower then when the hint is not used. I would implement this with a negative score for a hint (a penalisation score)
  The hint is on the level of the question, not on the level of the possible answers.
• hint penalisation (minus x points),
• shuffle possible answers: random order of the possible answers of this question,
• add to question pool: yes or no
• first answer is the final answer OR multiple attempts possible (similar to attempts allowed of the quiz)

Question Pool

• categories in the question pool (labels)
• If a question in the question pool is edited, are ALL the quizes using this question using the updated question? This is a (relatively easy) content management problem.
  • If not, then we have to use a copy of the question and have a separate pool table. If we add a question from the pool to a quiz then we copy the question from the question pool to the quiz and we can then edit the question in the quiz independantly of the question in the pool. In this approach the question pool is more like a templates system.
  • Edit question in question pool does also edit the question in the quiz => the question links to the question in the question pool. In this case the reference to the question in the question pool has to be stored so that it is possible to get the most recent version. Updating the question in the question pool OR in any quiz affects all other quizes that use this question.
  • Both approaches can be combined but this adds serious complexity and this won't be transparant for the user.
• question pool: use checkboxes to add more than one question from the pool at once.

export quiz to IMS-QTI. Is is relevant to allow to export every single question of a quiz or the question pool? Claroline does it on the level of the complete quiz

main folder, add data folder for user uploads (images), add

functionality to these group responsables: allow them to edit every

The help should be much more extensive than is the case now and should

agenda item has been added) and an error message (please fill in field X) (see also quiz)

are you sure you want to delete: WHAT NAME_OF_WHAT
example: are you sure you want to delete the folder: this_is_a_documents_folder

Dokeos 1.8 install". They will for instance get text and form fields closer, avoid that the Next button is out of the page etc. The install information is much better now but we need webdesign people to

In dokeos 1.6 it is already possible to do course sorting using user defined course categories. This needs some more options:

• sorting of the categories: as it is now the user defined course categories cannot be sorted (moved up and down)(code ready UGent)
• show the already existing course categories (in the create course category section)(code ready UGent)
• AWACS: show all user created course categories on the my courses page (even those that are empty)
• no two categories with the same name
• delete a user defined course category (code ready UGent)
• show the categories that do not contain any course also otherwise there is no easy method to remove them (code ready UGent)

the user with new fields: http://www.dokeos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3728

everything should also be visible through the 'User' tool (and also

code. This process is almost complete, but there are still a few places

user,... the same keys are used as the corresponding field names in the database. For example, now sometimes $course['path'], $course['directory'], $course['dir'] are used. It should always be

$_course['dbNameGlu']."table_name" with

Database::get_course_table(TABLE_NAME_CONSTANT) everywhere and remove

that are stored in the db do no longer occur in the claro_main.conf.php file. This can cause unneeded confusion since editing the claro_main.conf.php will not have any effect (it is now done through

use of the phpmailer class throughout Dokeos

platform admin. (can this be extended to have the option to have all

add student publications

items. It is just copy/paste of an already-XML-formatted string into

course_user. This is a sort of a view option with a time restriction. What should be decided is if these temporary user are visible in the users tool or not. The user table could also have such a start and end

(this was unfortunately removed while redesigning add user to course

comments on a student (only visible for the teacher, not for the student). At UGent this is used when more than one teacher have to give grades for the same course. They share comments on the student like this. (these teacher comments, do they overlap with the existing

homepage an icon is displayed to inform the user that new items were added to the course. But inside those tool, this notification isn't available. Documents, links,... can be marked as new. A more advanced version would also allow users to mark items as new. (Cfr an

reporting interface including an accurate measure of time spent by

progress BG is red when less than 75% visited and Green when more than 75%. But all experts conflict on this, it is not readable and has no

write the manuals (from a student, teacher, platform admin, developer

that you can start with a completely empty course without the example

Notice however how this can be confusing as well. Someone taking a look at the filename might interpret it as "lecons delete". --turboke

replace socratic irony by a nice illustrated and clever multiple choice, replace the default document in documents by a nice and well