[QTI] Newbie Question

[Sue Milne]

Hi Bob,

Could I suggest that you go for QTIv2.1 rather than QTIv2.0?

Several teams are currently working on 2.1 implementations and the
differences in the assessmentItem parts of the spec are few.

The examples cover all the basic question types - see
http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/qtiv2/examples/V2examples.html which demonstrates
most of them and some other interesting examples including our MathAssess
collection.

Cheers
Sue

2009/10/15 Yuan Cheng Jiun <cjyuan at cse.cuhk.edu.hk>

> QTI XSD is very flexible, perhaps too flexible for the task you want
> to accomplish.
>
> A QTI assessmentItem (question) can contain question data and more.
> If needed, one can also embed in a question the logic to interact
> with the user (i.e. how to provide feedbacks) and the logic to
> calculate score.
>
> Trying to import the QTI XSD into a relational database is like
> trying to import HTML XSD into a relational database.
>
> For the task you want to accomplish (transfering data from one DB to
> another), I think it is easier for you to just customize a XSD or
> use a subset of QTI XSD.
>
> Regards,
> CJ
>
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Harris, B. wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I've recently joined the list having recently started looking at some QTI
> based data. A couple of questions if anyone can advise:
> >
> > 1) We tried to use the QTI v2 XSD at
> http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p0.xsd to create tables in a SQL
> database using the MS SQLXMLBULKLOAD function. We came across quite a few
> errors that the SQLXMLBULKLOAD reported - for an example " Schema:
> relationship expected on 'col'". Is this something that people have come
> across or should it work (or not work) okay? Is there anything we need to do
> to the schema to get the SQLXMLBULKLOAD to work? Has anyone managed to
> create tables of the schema - any pointers as to how?
> >
> > 2) I notice on the http://www.imsglobal.org/question/ page where we
> downloaded the XSD file from in the 'Version 2.0 -IMS XML Examples and
> Schemas' section that there are a few xml examples. Does this cover all the
> 'question' types in the xsd or are there more? Am I right in understanding
> that the xsd file describes these xml files...and a lot more? Basically,
> we're trying to deserialise some QTI v2 xml data from a learning environment
> system (LE) so we can populate another database with it. Our stumbling block
> is understanding how the xml is structured (which is when we were pointed to
> the IMS site). We thought about creating tables based upon the XSD (or in a
> roundabout fashion the xml) so we can deserialise the LE xml. Are we barking
> up the wrong tree with this. Could anyone provide an easier pointer if there
> is one? We're very much a newbie at all this so would appreciate some
> advice.
> >
> > Many thanks for any advice offered
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
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