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Publishing Tests from Respondus QTI in Vista
Introduction
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Respondus is a tool for the creation and administration of questions and tests that might either be printed on paper or be published directly in a Learning Management System (LMS) such as WebCT CE, Vista, Moddle or others. Respondus especially supports the IMS QTI (Question and Test interoperability)-standard, which allows to exchange questions and test with other QTI-compatible applications.
This HOWTO describes the creation of questions and tests based on the IMS QTI 1.1+ standard that is supported by Respondus 2., and their publication in Vista. The same description will apply also to other platforms supporting the standard.
The main advantage of creating your tests and questions with Respondus and not directly in Vista are:
- platform independence, in respect to applications that are IMS QTI-compatible
- separation of the administration of questions and tests and their presentation to the students.
- storing the questions and tests in an open file format accessible also with a simple text editor such as the Bloc-Note or Wordpad.
Prerequisites
- Respondus 2 with a one user license allowing using the IMS QTI standard.
(The limited edition (LE) will allow the creation of questions and tests, but not their publication in the IMS QTI standard.) - An IMS QTI standard application such as Vista.
Instruction
Creating questions and test- Start Respondus
- Choose "IMS QTI 1.1+" when asked to set the Current Personality.
- Create a new file or open an existing Respondus file
- Edit the questions belonging to the test.
Creating IMS QTI File
To package the questions into a test create a ZIP-File that can be exported from Respondus and imported into other applications.
- Select the rider "Preview & Publish" and chose Save QTI XML-File.
- Clique "Browse", choose the folder and a name for your file.
- Don't use any non-ASCI-characters such as accents or diereses.
- Clique "Create File"
- A message confirms when the test is exported.
- Open the Zip-file
- It must contain two xml-files
- imsmanifest.xml (IMS-standard file with packaging information)
- MyFileName.xml (file containing the questions).
Importing the Test into Vista
In Vista, imported tests are added automatically to the Assessment-tool. The imported questions are automatically added to the Question Database.
- Import the Zip-File with "Content Import".
- Chose the uploaded file and click "Add Selected"
- While importing a progress bar is displayed
- When finished an import protocol is available.
- Click "back".
- Select "Assessment and chose the desired test from the list.
- The test is added and can be edited further.
Links
- Respondus User Guides