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Re: [WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

2009-10-16T09:57:58Z

RE: [WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

Can you please send the full stack trace to the list.

Alan

Alan Berg

Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
Group Education and Research Services
Central Computer Services
University of Amsterdam

http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg

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I tried that and gives the same error...

From: Steve Swinsburg [steve.swinsburg@...]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:01 PM
To: tumelo tsotetsi
Cc: sakai-mig@...
Subject: Re: [WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

Hi,

I think Test and Quizzes requires the import to be in IMS QTI 1.2
format. Can you export from Moodle in that format and try again?

cheers,

Steve

On 16/10/2009, at 8:01 PM, tumelo tsotetsi wrote:

Hi,

I'm migrating questions from moodle to sakai using the import function,
but it don't want to work as I exported them from moodle in IMS QTI 2.0
format. But when I import them to sakai I get an error saying :

So please help .....

There was an error importing this assessment. Ensure that the file is
correctly formatted IMS QTI. Error
details:org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.services.qti.QTIServiceExceptio
n: java.lang.NullPointerException

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Re: [WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

2009-10-16T08:14:06Z

I tried that and gives the same error…

From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg@...]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 12:01 PM
To: tumelo tsotetsi
Cc: sakai-mig@...
Subject: Re: [WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

Hi,

I think Test and Quizzes requires the import to be in IMS QTI 1.2 format. Can you export from Moodle in that format and try again?

cheers,

Steve

On 16/10/2009, at 8:01 PM, tumelo tsotetsi wrote:

Hi,

I’m migrating questions from moodle to sakai using the import function, but it don’t want to work as I exported them from moodle in IMS QTI 2.0 format. But when I import them to sakai I get an error saying :

So please help …..

There was an error importing this assessment. Ensure that the file is correctly formatted IMS QTI. Error details:org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.services.qti.QTIServiceException: java.lang.NullPointerException

Re: [WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

2009-10-16T03:00:58Z

Hi,

I think Test and Quizzes requires the import to be in IMS QTI 1.2 format. Can you export from Moodle in that format and try again?

cheers,

Steve

On 16/10/2009, at 8:01 PM, tumelo tsotetsi wrote:

Hi,

I’m migrating questions from moodle to sakai using the import function, but it don’t want to work as I exported them from moodle in IMS QTI 2.0 format. But when I import them to sakai I get an error saying :
So please help …..

There was an error importing this assessment. Ensure that the file is correctly formatted IMS QTI. Error details:org.sakaiproject.tool.assessment.services.qti.QTIServiceException: java.lang.NullPointerException

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[WG: Migration] Test and Quizzes [Scanned]M2

2009-10-16T02:01:30Z

Hi,

So please help …..

Re: Calculated question types

2008-10-02T15:33:44Z

I think that would be fairly easy assuming the code to generate the
questions exists. If someone wants to provide that part I can help
turn it into a restful web service.
-AZ

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Sean Keesler <sean@...> wrote:

> Is there a possibility to implement a web service that returns a
> calculated formula questions when provided with a request and
> appropriate parameters? That way any tool could consume the service when
> needed.
>
>
>
> Sean
>
> -------------------
> Sean Keesler
> 130 Academy Street
> Manlius, NY 13104
> sean@...
> 315-682-0830
>
>
>
>
> Barb Kerns wrote:
>> Robin,
>> I am very glad to hear that work is being done in this area. Thank you!
>>
>> For those who aren't familiar with calculated formula question types, our
>> faculty member recommends this website --
>> http://calculations.wikidot.com/
>>
>> Significant information is available there.
>>
>> Attached is a copy of some exam questions from the faculty member.
>>
>> Barb
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/2/08 12:16 PM, "Robin Hill" <hill@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We will report on this very issue at the Virginia Tech conference.
>>> WebCT calculated questions take some parameters and generate a set of
>>> variations (with answers), from which one is drawn when the exam is
>>> administered, so, yes, that facility can be simulated by a script
>>> execution that provides input to a question pool.
>>>
>>> Our Physics faculty have the same requirement, and they form our test
>>> community. We are still working out the details, and will provide our
>>> materials and results on Confluence, of course. My lab assistant, Rory
>>> Jarrard, is scheduled to present during the last session on November
>>> 12th.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sean Keesler wrote:
>>>
>>>> AFAIK, you can create a "pool" of questions from which you can randomly
>>>> draw questions to populate a "part" in Samigo.
>>>> Unfortuntely, it doesn't create new questions (and solve them) on the
>>>> fly...but picks from a list.
>>>>
>>>> I guess you could have an external "random question creator" script/app
>>>> outside of Sakai that could create a QTI file that you could then import
>>>> into a question pool.
>>>>
>>>> Sean
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Barb Kerns wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a faculty member who is adamant that Sakai will not be suitable
>>>>> as a
>>>>> replacement to Blackboard until Sakai has the capability to generate
>>>>> calculated questions (in which the system randomly generates the
>>>>> variables
>>>>> to make each question unique). What options do we have with Sakai to
>>>>> generate randomly calculated test questions?
>>>>>
>>>>> I appreciate any suggestions you have or contacts you know of
>>>>> someone/institution who is working on this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>> Barb Kerns
>>>>> Bradley University
>>>>> Peoria, IL, USA
>>>>> (309) 677-2332
>>>>>
>>>>> (First year pilot of Sakai version 2.5.1 on Solaris with Tomcat
>>>>>
>>>> database)
>>>>
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Re: Calculated question types

2008-10-02T14:20:28Z

Is there a possibility to implement a web service that returns a
calculated formula questions when provided with a request and
appropriate parameters? That way any tool could consume the service when
needed.

Sean

-------------------
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130 Academy Street
Manlius, NY 13104
sean@...
315-682-0830

Barb Kerns wrote:

> Robin,
> I am very glad to hear that work is being done in this area. Thank you!
>
> For those who aren't familiar with calculated formula question types, our
> faculty member recommends this website --
> http://calculations.wikidot.com/
>
> Significant information is available there.
>
> Attached is a copy of some exam questions from the faculty member.
>
> Barb
>
>
>
> On 10/2/08 12:16 PM, "Robin Hill" <hill@...> wrote:
>
>
>> We will report on this very issue at the Virginia Tech conference.
>> WebCT calculated questions take some parameters and generate a set of
>> variations (with answers), from which one is drawn when the exam is
>> administered, so, yes, that facility can be simulated by a script
>> execution that provides input to a question pool.
>>
>> Our Physics faculty have the same requirement, and they form our test
>> community. We are still working out the details, and will provide our
>> materials and results on Confluence, of course. My lab assistant, Rory
>> Jarrard, is scheduled to present during the last session on November 12th.
>>
>>
>> Sean Keesler wrote:
>>
>>> AFAIK, you can create a "pool" of questions from which you can randomly
>>> draw questions to populate a "part" in Samigo.
>>> Unfortuntely, it doesn't create new questions (and solve them) on the
>>> fly...but picks from a list.
>>>
>>> I guess you could have an external "random question creator" script/app
>>> outside of Sakai that could create a QTI file that you could then import
>>> into a question pool.
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Barb Kerns wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a faculty member who is adamant that Sakai will not be suitable
>>>> as a
>>>> replacement to Blackboard until Sakai has the capability to generate
>>>> calculated questions (in which the system randomly generates the
>>>> variables
>>>> to make each question unique). What options do we have with Sakai to
>>>> generate randomly calculated test questions?
>>>>
>>>> I appreciate any suggestions you have or contacts you know of
>>>> someone/institution who is working on this.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Barb Kerns
>>>> Bradley University
>>>> Peoria, IL, USA
>>>> (309) 677-2332
>>>>
>>>> (First year pilot of Sakai version 2.5.1 on Solaris with Tomcat
>>>>
>>> database)
>>>
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Re: Calculated question types

2008-10-02T10:16:52Z

We will report on this very issue at the Virginia Tech conference.
WebCT calculated questions take some parameters and generate a set of
variations (with answers), from which one is drawn when the exam is
administered, so, yes, that facility can be simulated by a script
execution that provides input to a question pool.

Our Physics faculty have the same requirement, and they form our test
community. We are still working out the details, and will provide our
materials and results on Confluence, of course. My lab assistant, Rory
Jarrard, is scheduled to present during the last session on November 12th.

Sean Keesler wrote:

> AFAIK, you can create a "pool" of questions from which you can randomly
> draw questions to populate a "part" in Samigo.
> Unfortuntely, it doesn't create new questions (and solve them) on the
> fly...but picks from a list.
>
> I guess you could have an external "random question creator" script/app
> outside of Sakai that could create a QTI file that you could then import
> into a question pool.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
>
> Barb Kerns wrote:
> > I have a faculty member who is adamant that Sakai will not be suitable
> > as a
> > replacement to Blackboard until Sakai has the capability to generate
> > calculated questions (in which the system randomly generates the
> > variables
> > to make each question unique). What options do we have with Sakai to
> > generate randomly calculated test questions?
> >
> > I appreciate any suggestions you have or contacts you know of
> > someone/institution who is working on this.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Barb Kerns
> > Bradley University
> > Peoria, IL, USA
> > (309) 677-2332
> >
> > (First year pilot of Sakai version 2.5.1 on Solaris with Tomcat
> database)
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Is it possible to migrate from sakai to moodle?

2008-01-15T08:08:48Z

Is it possible to migrate courses from sakai to moodle? If so, how?

Re: Migration from WebCT 4.1: Calculated Questions (fwd)

2007-12-30T19:11:30Z

On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Robin Hill wrote:

> 1. First, the problem with the bulk of the questions in the WebCT
> Question Database:
>
> Respondus produces the QTI format that Sakai imports, but, as the
> collab documents attest, a direct import of the resulting file fails
> to express the questions correctly because Respondus tags the XML
> questions with "ident=QUE_nnn" rather than the type that the Sakai
> "Import" function expects, resulting in unknown type defaulting to
> short-answer.

Robin,

At Rutgers, I know Chuck did some work to build a custom JSP (well,
it's implemented as a JSP, but it's really ~ 1500 lines of Java code)
specifically to handle import of Respondus-flavored QTI.

If you're interested, I can probably post the code into contrib -- I
don't think there are any RU dependencies (though it may require
Samigo 2.4.x/2.5)

> 2. Now, the problem with calculated questions:
>
> Respondus produces Flash files with Javascript calls for calculated
> questions (like it does for question pools when Respondus is given a
> WebCT Quiz as input). But there must be a simpler way to address
> this: A little investigation into the WebCT tagged text download
> file shows that a WebCT calculated question is really like a short-
> answer question pool-- all the value variants are predetermined and
> hard-coded.

I *believe* the flash-generated questions for generated types come
through correctly through some ContentHosting and Samigo manipulation
(which I believe might satisfy your goals) though I'll admit to not
being familiar with more than the high-level details -- this was a
quick-n-dirty we're having IT staff use to transfer publisher content
by importing through Respondus.

I apologize for the vague-ness -- I'm pretty heads down until 1/10
(and probably a week or 2 past then).

Jason

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Migration from WebCT 4.1: Calculated Questions (fwd)

2007-12-26T12:10:58Z

Sakai Migration Experts:

I've been following the WG: Migration list conversation for a while, and
investigating the various tools documented on its Confluence page. A solution
to our particular problem seems imminent, but not quite there yet. Coaching
would be appreciated.

We just started a Sakai pilot (hosted by rSmart). On our WebCT 4.1 platform,
we a have Physics course with hundreds of calculated questions.

1. First, the problem with the bulk of the questions in the WebCT Question
Database:

Respondus produces the QTI format that Sakai imports, but, as the collab
documents attest, a direct import of the resulting file fails to express the
questions correctly because Respondus tags the XML questions with
"ident=QUE_nnn" rather than the type that the Sakai "Import" function expects,
resulting in unknown type defaulting to short-answer.

The solution might be to categorize (by type) in the WebCT Question
Database, run Respondus on a single category of questions, generate the QTI
version, and then apply a universal edit to change the relevant field in the
XML, to "ident=MCSC," for instance.

Right? Make sense? Will that then upload correctly into Sakai? We'll try it
and find out.

2. Now, the problem with calculated questions:

Respondus produces Flash files with Javascript calls for calculated questions
(like it does for question pools when Respondus is given a WebCT Quiz as
input). But there must be a simpler way to address this: A little
investigation into the WebCT tagged text download file shows that a WebCT
calculated question is really like a short-answer question pool-- all the value
variants are predetermined and hard-coded.

Can't that tagged text file be processed by some script to output an XML file
containing the equivalent question pool in nice QTI form (as an exam, if there
is no QTI pool format)?? Then the QTI file could be imported into Sakai as a
question pool, with its behavior-- random presentation of a variant-- identical
to the behavior of the WebCT calculated question. (Note: There is no download
of question pools from WebCT, since a question pool is a property of an
individual Quiz, not a property of the Question Database; so there's no WebCT
tagged text format for question pools.)

Right so far? Has this been done, or attempted? If not, and it seems
plausible, we might try writing it ourselves... but we have lots to do.
Can anyone help with a short-cut-- a link to a concise version of the QTI
short-answer/fill-in-the-blank format, for guidance?

We will also have to face the image import problem, which I have not researched
yet. And we are about to try the UNE facility mentioned by Stephen Swinsburg
(thank you, Rutgers and UNE!) on whole courses, in conjunction with the
delivered WebCT Content Migration Utility, and we will then be able to see how
it handles the quiz questions.

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melete and blackboard 6

2007-11-05T12:29:10Z

Does anyone know of any work being done to get blackboard 6 ims
packages to import into melete? I know rutgers and others have done
work on this front for webct. I'm looking for something similar, a
script or xsl that fix up the blackboard imsmanifest so it can be
consumed by melete.

John

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Re: UNE Migration Utility

2007-10-24T10:20:14Z

Stephen Swinsburg wrote:

> Ok so now to your main question, debug/verbose mode:
>
> If you run the Converter java class with the proper parameters as you
> are doing now, then part of its output should be the actual command that
> it runs when it calls webct2melete. Capture this command and then run
> this command directly. webct2melete does most of the work and it
> actually has all the verbose output.
> We tried to capture the output into a log, and there is a bit of
> commented out code in there that we attempted, but we couldn't get it
> right and had to move on.
>

Hi Stephen,

Finally got back to running webct2melete manually. Looks to be paths
that have .. in them. For instance:

Can't copyfile
/Volumes/webctdev.hcf.jhu.edu/user/as410601_81_sp07/UnitTwelve/UnitTwelveFiles/../../UnitEight/56k/Lect10audio.html"
to resources/images/Lect10audio.html": java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/Volumes/webctdev.hcf.jhu.edu/user/as410601_81_sp07/UnitTwelve/UnitTwelveFiles/../../UnitEight/56k/Lect10audio.html"
(No such file or directory)

The file exists but I think the copyfile routine doesn't understand ..

- Ian

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Another way to tackle WebCT CE4 Content Modules

2007-10-17T14:02:27Z

Hi All,

I've been experimenting with converting the CE4 Content Module Table of
Contents for use in the Sakai wiki tool

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/VwI_

This addresses some of the issues I've encountered with webct2melete
conversion (e.g., embedded content, the flattening of the file structure).

- Ian

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Re: UNE Migration Utility

2007-10-16T18:28:51Z

Hi Stephen,

Set this in your sakai.properties

# Max upload for Melete IMS CP import. If disabled, melete assumes
50Mb. This is different to the content.upload.max setting.
content.upload.ceiling=200

That should do the trick.

cheers,
Steve

__________________________________
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Web Developer
Teaching & Learning Centre
University of New England, Australia
Ph. (02) 6773 2922

On 17/10/2007, at 4:34 AM, Stephen Douglas Rehberg wrote:

> I've sent to the email archive twice in the last two days but it
> doesn't appear there and I don't get a copy. Anyway, here is my
> real question until I figure out the archive issue.
>
> We have been using the UNE migration tool and run into a new
> problem (not the tool's).
>
> When I try to import a file into Melete (modules) greater than
> 50Meg I get the error message
>
> "File to large. Contact your system administrator."
>
> The problem is we have a general file upload (for Resources) set to
> 400Meg. We also cannot figure out howMelete is determining what
> file size is too big.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this issue? Is it in the
> configuration of Melete (again we couldn't find anything and it
> seems to default on a normal upload -- not an import -- to the 400
> meg limit).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen Rehberg
> Georgia Tech
>
> Stephen Swinsburg wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. I have fixed up the Confluence page
>> (http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/SAAo) with some
>> more instructions about what to do after conversion. I added a
>> note to look inside quizzes.zip to get the xml files and
>> associated resources.
>>
>> Also, re the userfiles, we just put them there as an archive for
>> the instructor. For them to use them they would need to download
>> and get the content out. I guess we could have webdav'd the
>> unzipped archive to the site for them, like we did for the quiz
>> resources, but thats a bit too nice :) (plus we had 800+ sites but
>> only about 100 with quizzes).
>>
>> Ok so now to your main question, debug/verbose mode:
>>
>> If you run the Converter java class with the proper parameters as
>> you are doing now, then part of its output should be the actual
>> command that it runs when it calls webct2melete. Capture this
>> command and then run this command directly. webct2melete does most
>> of the work and it actually has all the verbose output.
>> We tried to capture the output into a log, and there is a bit of
>> commented out code in there that we attempted, but we couldn't get
>> it right and had to move on.
>>
>> When we get a spare moment I can get one of my developers to look
>> at the logging function so hopefully we can get a bit more info out.
>>
>> How have you gone with the rest of it?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> __________________________________
>> Steve Swinsburg
>> Web Developer
>> Teaching & Learning Centre
>> University of New England, Australia
>> Ph. (02) 6773 2922
>>
>> On 10/10/2007, at 7:50 AM, Ian Goh wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Stephen,
>>>
>>> Been kicking the tires of the UNE Migration Utility. I have one
>>> large site in which a critical Content Module simply vanishes.
>>> It's in the exported package from WebCT (so not thrown out by
>>> content export).
>>>
>>> Is there any debug/verbose mode to see why it's rejecting a
>>> certain bit of the manifest?
>>>
>>> Also, in terms of "what to do after the conversion process is
>>> complete"...
>>>
>>> It was not clear [to a novice] that you couldn't upload the
>>> completed quizzes zip, but had to actually unzip it, then upload
>>> the individual xml files, then upload the 'private' folder to
>>> resources. Don't you have to make the 'private' folder private?
>>> I think that was something Rutgers did to their Sakai
>>> implementation. And then finally fix the paths (on the wish list).
>>>
>>>
>>> And for Userfiles, unless you know something I don't Resources
>>> doesn't have an unzip feature.
>>>
>>> - Ian
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Re: Graphics, OpenGL, DirectDraw, etc...

2007-07-05T15:01:58Z

> Hiya, all.

Hello Dodger,

> I've had no problem building and compiling a simple standalone
> application in Perl for Windows using WxWidgets and the ActiveState
> PDK.
>
> Thing is, there's more than 'simple' that I want to do and can't figure
> out how.
>
> 1) I want to know how to be able to include an image embedded in the
> code somehow rather than as a seperate, external file (this way
> there's no pathing issue possible when compiling the thing).

I use something like this:
I convert the image to XPM with ImageMagick (eg.)

convert image.bmp image.xpm

This is a "textbased" format so you can open it in an editor and then use
it in code like so:

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
sub img_checked {
my $img = q~
/* XPM */
static char *check[] = {
/* columns rows colors chars-per-pixel */
"16 16 5 1",
" c black",
". c #848284",
"X c #C6C3C6",
"o c gray100",
"O c white",
/* pixels */
"oooooooooooooooo",
"oooooooooooooooo",
"oo............oo",
"oo. Xoo",
"oo. OOOOOOOOOXoo",
"oo. OOOOOOO OXoo",
"oo. OOOOOO OXoo",
"oo. O OOO OXoo",
"oo. O O OOXoo",
"oo. O OOOXoo",
"oo. OO OOOOXoo",
"oo. OOO OOOOOXoo",
"oo. OOOOOOOOOXoo",
"oo.XXXXXXXXXXXoo",
"oooooooooooooooo",
"oooooooooooooooo"};
~;
my $data = [ map { m/^"(.*)"/ ? ( $1 ) : () } split /\n/, $img ];
my $xpm = Wx::Bitmap->newFromXPM( $data );
return $xpm;
}

# You can call it like this ....:
my $img_checked = Wx::StaticBitmap->new(
$self->{panel},
-1,
img_checked(),
);

# or in an Imagelist:
my $img_list = Wx::ImageList->new( 16, 16, 1 );
$img_list->Add( img_checked() );

# or an icon:
my $icon = Wx::Icon->new();
$icon->CopyFromBitmap( $img_checked() );
$self->SetIcon($icon);

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------

> 2) I want to be able to draw directly on something.

Define "something". It's not quite clear what you mean...

> Can I embed ImageMagick somehow maybe? Is there a more
> efficient way, since IM is pretty hefty?

There is a module on CPAN called Wx::Perl::Imagick which replaces
"Wx::Image with all functionality of Image::Magick" but like you said, IM
is pretty hefty. Apart from that, ImageMagick and PDK haven't work well
together in the past and the last time I tried was still problematic.

I have had very good results with Imager (also on CPAN or PPM) but it all
depends on what you want to do. Imager packs well with PDK

> 3) I'd REALLY like to be able to do some real-time OpenGL 3D stuff.
> Totally lost on how.

No help here. Did you see Wx::GLCanvas on the wxPerl site?

Kind regards,

Huub Peters