All entries for Monday 21 November 2005

Supercruciverbalisticcluesarequiteattrocious

My late colleague, David Fowler, told me these two super-cryptic gems many years ago:

h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o (5 letters)

heggs (11 letters)

: 21 Nov 2005 11:21 |  Tags: Bagatelle Cryptic Crossword |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Computer Assessment in Need

Computer-aided assessment (CAA) will only flourish if it's easy to use. My preliminary travels around the Science Faculty have already revealed a gaping hole: some web-delivered CAA software that

• is easy to author (knock up a test with 10 MCQs online in half an hour)


• is easy to deliver (scheduling and reporting in the hands of the lecturer)


• has basic functionality (standard question types, reasonable security, and provision of feedback to students)


• is science friendly (allows LaTeX markup, graphics, maybe even some parsing of equivalent answers)


• integrates well with the existing framework (Sitebuilder, Formsbuilder, etc).

How about Quizbuilder? Over to you E-lab.

: 21 Nov 2005 10:29 |  Tags: CAA Computer Aided Assessment Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem