Assis will provide tools for a teacher to browse, search, preview and select assessment objects from question banks which can then be incorporated into packages of content which may also include sequencing instructions. The assessment objects in the content package will contain pointers to an external rendering service, to be developed by Assis, removing the requirement for teachers to have any knowledge of the technical details of how the object is presented to the learner or how the learner’s responses are captured. For learners, a player will be produced that will present material from content packages and integrate with the Assis external services for presenting assessment objects and the processing of sequencing rules.
Assis aims to provide teachers with the opportunity to design innovative learning activities and sequences of activities incorporating formative assessment and for learners to access these materials in the manner that suits them best. The suite of open source services and tools that enable these activities will be standards and specifications conformant. The project also aims to provide discrete tools and services that need not be used exclusively by the outcomes of Assis.
Robert Sherratt Email: r.sherratt@hull.ac.uk
Institution: University of Hull Brynmor Jones Library, Hull, HU6 7RX