[QTI] Horizontal choices in a choiceInteraction

[Alexander McCabe]

Also, I have used, and seen others use this approach for horizontal
rendering on QTI 1.2 engines. So it's got some history too :)

Alexander McCabe,
Question Writer Development and Support
http://www.questionwriterblog.com


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Niall Barr <n.barr at admin.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

> I think this should be achievable using the stylesheet element and class
> attribute of choiceInteraction and simpleChoice. However, as the
> sylesheets depends on how the player renders these elements and the
> class attribute is defined as being tool-specific, this is a
> tool-specific solution.
>
> Niall
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk
> [mailto:ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk] On Behalf Of Bart Nagel
> Sent: 07 December 2009 13:26
> To: IMS Question &amp; Test Interoperability
> Subject: Re: [QTI] Horizontal choices in a choiceInteraction
>
> At 2009-12-07 13:01:36 +0100, Jens Schwendel wrote:
> > at the moment in QTI 2.1 spec only orderInteraction and
> > sliderInteraction have the according attribute 'orientation'.
> > Could you please describe your use case or example where it make's
> > sense to have a horizontally oriented choiceInteraction? Maybe we can
> > set this on the QTI issue list for upcoming changes.
> > Personally I'd tend to unify interaction attributes as far as
> > meaningful and leave decision to authors if it make's sense for their
> scenario.
>
> Sure. The use case here is in what the customer of our project terms
> "extended matching items". That's a stimulus and a list of possible
> responses enumerated with letters, so
>
>        There follow a set of questions about leg injuries. In each case
>
>        check the bones which may be affected.
>
>        A       tibia
>        B       patella
>        C       fibula
>        D       femur
>
> And then a set of multiple response interactions, each with the same set
> of options but denoted only by letter. Since the checkboxes only need a
> single letter next to them, they'd like them shown horizontally. For
> example
>
>        1. Whatever the question prompt is -- can't think of one off the
>
>           top of my head
>        [ ] A   [ ] B   [ ] C   [ ]     D
>
>        2. Etc etc
>        [ ] A   [ ] B   [ ] C   [ ]     D
>
> Of course, the options could be fully listed each time, but this is how
> the customer wants it and as such it makes sense to save vertical space
> so the list of options are more likely to remain in view.
>
> Thanks
> --bart
>
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