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SAMigo, also known as Tests and Quizzes, is an online assessment tool for teaching and learning that runs within the Sakai open-source LMS/CLE.
Key Features
- Unlimited Assessment Types: Online tests/quizzes, homework questions, problem sets, self-study questions, compositions, projects, language drills, and surveys are all types of assessments that can be created and managed by SAMigo. Assessment Types can be preset to mitigate complexity for instructors.
- Organizing and Publishing of Assessments: Assessments can be organized into parts with questions in each part. Parts and questions can be reordered. Instructors can specify release date, due date, and/or retract date of an assessment. It supports both automatic and manual grading as well as many other settings including late handling, limit to the number of submissions, anonymous grading, feedback, and high security settings.
- Questions: SAMigo supports rich-text editing of a variety of question types including Multiple Choice, Survey, Short Answer/Essay, True/False, Fill in the Blank, File Upload, and Audio Recording.
- Managing assessment-taking: SAMigo delivers assessments to students based on a rich set of settings configured during authoring, such as randomized questions and answers, timed assessment with auto submit, high security assessments with restricted IP and secondary password, feedback settings, as well as the option to automatically send grades to Sakai's Gradebook tool.
- Question Pools: SAMigo has a repository of questions that can be used to store and organize questions. These questions can be copied to an assessment individually or a selection of can be drawn randomly from a particular question pool.
- Importing/Exporting: Assessments can be exported/imported via IMS QTI xml format. QTI version 1.2 is currently supported.
For a complete list of features, go to SAMigo features list
Recent News
2008-3-25
Samigo 2.5 has been released. See 2.5 Release Notes
2007-5-31
Samigo 2.4 load test report. See Samigo 2.4 Performance Testing
2007-5-22
Samigo 2.4 has been released. See 2.4 Release Notes
Also, click to see Bug fixes in 2.4.x
2007-03-22
SAMigo 2.4, which is in QA now along with the rest of Sakai. Improvements, new features, and future plans are noted below.
Colleagues from five other schools joined Stanford to contribute code to the Samigo 2.4 release, including new features, performance enhancements, and, of course, bug fixes. In addition to the Stanford team, contributors to Samigo 2.4 include: Lisa Wilson and James Renfro, UC Davis, Dave Ross, Albany Medical College, Joshua Ryan, Arizona State, and Diego del Blanco Orobitg and Raul Mengod, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. A gold star goes to Stephen Marquard, University of Cape Town for his analysis, testing and advice. Notes below highlight the changes and contributions.
We really appreciate all the people who have helped with QA in past releases. Now that we are in QA for version 2.4, with many new features and improvements, again we ask the community to help. Please respond to Megan May's call for participation.
16-Mar-2006
new features in 2.4:
- Added email functionality to allow instructors to email invididual sudents from 'Scores' screens, SAK-7094
- Allow instructors to give individual students permission to re-take the assessment SAK-7093
- A disable/enable toggle of all FCK Editors in Authoring screen. SAK-5904. Based on Dave Ross's contributed patch.
- Random questions and multiple attempts: added flavor of randomization selection for random parts. SAK-7696
- Allow Samigo contents to be imported from other Sakai Sites using the Site Info tool's 'Import From Site' link.
SAK-7378
- Allow instructors to change feedback settings for after assessments are published. SAK-3943
- Change the 'copy' function in question pool to be a deep copy, rather than a link. SAK-3526
- Implemented IMS content packaging to allow import/export of assessments with attachments SAK-5419
- Allow importing of Samigo assessments to Question Pool. SAK-6993. Contributor: Lisa Wilson from UC Davis.
- Importing simple text formatted assessments to Samigo using Word-2-QTI converter. SAK-8642. Contributor: James Renfro from UC Davis, based on code from Claremont McKenna College.
- i18n Internationalization/localization support implemented. SAK-8643. Contributor: Diego del Blanco Orobitg from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
- performance enhancements / bug fixes
Performance improvement:
Samigo's stability and performance continue to be the top goal and continue to improve, and this release includes many improvements. In particular, a few noteworthy additions are:
- Indexes provided by Raul and Diego
- SAK-7454: Objects were being saved redundantly and causing deadlocks. Stephen reported this during his loadtest and helped validate our fixes.
- Optimization on the Scores page to eliminate unnecessary database writes
Bug fixes aren't listed here but can be found in Jira.
Unicon will join the Stanford team to work with Linda Place, the maven of performance and load testing at the University of Michigan, and her team, who have graciously offered to do a thorough load test of Samigo 2.4. We'll update you as the analysis progresses.
Future plans:
After the release of 2.4, the load testing is our next big milestone. The outcome of this process will inform the 2.5 release.
Ideas for features and extensions continue to pour in, and we would look forward to planning the roadmap with the community. We'll begin by working with the upcoming Sakai requirements process. The Sakai requirements team will solicit community requirements for the entire product, including Samigo, this spring. Once this process is complete, we will work with the requirements team to analyze the results relating to assessment. We plan to host an assessment summit for contributors to work together on the roadmap for upcoming effort, likely during the summer.
I'll be in touch again to update you about the plans for Samigo 2.5 and the upcoming assessment summit.
Lois Brooks
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