Authoring and Workflow

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Authoring and Workflow

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Status of Authoring

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Time to Split!

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Questionmark Live

• Made for Individuals

• Somewhat code frozen

NextGen Authoring

• Roles and Permissions

based

• Replacement for WBA

• New Features

What is the Difference between

Questionmark Live and NextGen Authoring

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Partner

checks

translations

of tool and

requests

change

CC or TS

requests

XLIFF file

from

Product

Owner

Product

Owner gets

XLIFF and

delivers to

CS or TS

CS gives

XLIFF to

Partner

makes

changes

and returns

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Assessment Features

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Metatags



Remaining Question Types

1. File Upload (1)

2. Ranking (2)

3. Survey Matrix (3)

4. Knowledge Matrix (3)

5. Flash/Captivate (4)



Authoring Features



Item and Assessment Tryout



Import and Export QTI

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Searching

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Printing



Translation Management – Outside of scope to replace WBA

What is Missing?

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Creating 17 question types

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Access Control to Subtopic level

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Item Revision History



Creating assessments

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Publishing to Delivery

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Publish to LMS

What is NOT Missing?

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Questionmark Live / Next-Gen Authoring

Browser Support

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Questionmark Live code base for

NextGen Authoring

NextGen Authoring replaces WBA

(Authoring Manager) and BBA

Questionmark Live continues as a

SME authoring tool

Publish from NextGen Authoring to

delivery

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Current Authoring

Results Warehouse Results form Delivery

Assessment Content NG Assessment Content

Authoring using Questionmark Live

QPack

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NextGen OnDemand

WBA

Results Warehouse Results form Delivery

Assessment Content NG Assessment Content NextGen Authoring Authoring Publish Questionmark Live Authoring using Questionmark Live QPack

X

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Expectation

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Start migrating existing customers to NextGen OnDemand by end of

year

NextGen OnDemand

Migrating Existing Customers

NG Assessment Content

Data can be migrated one tenant at a time

Customers can be migrated when their

requirements match platform’s capabilities

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Advantages of Publishing in

NextGen Authoring

Browser based making it easy to deploy

Version control throughout the process

Improved Roles and Permissions

Ability to publish to:

• Content Development Repository

• Production Repository

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Rubric added to Question



_{Ability to select from already created list}

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Limit the number of characters for participants

Improved Essay Question Type

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Better tagging to group questions

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_{Friendly Questions}



_{Enemy Questions}

Case Study – Future

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The system’s need to know a “State” for processing

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_{Question Status}

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The user’s need to know a “State” for their own

process/workflow/query/use tracking



_{Workflow Stage}

Item Status

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Better Topic View

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Defined by Item Bank Administrator

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Controlled via Permissions

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_{Set by Topics at Start}

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Could possibly be set by tagging later



_{i.e. Item Creator maybe cannot make a question Final}



_{Future – Time Based Access}

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Item Bank Administrator can bypass steps

Item Workflow Status

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Permissions

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Stage changes notifies next job

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Subscribe to topics



_{Daily updates on stage changes}

Workflow Notification

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Peer Review

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

Allow Item Bank Administrator to delete

Notes - Future

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Approval

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Questions start as In Progress

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_{When pulling “All from Topic” not included}

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Change to Normal or Final Permissions based

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Updating after Psychometric Review

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Publishing Workflow NextGen Authoring

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Authoring

Item

Bank

Production

Area

Roles

Content

Development Area

Delivery

CPS

SME

ID

Translator

Proof Reader

Data Imports

Publisher

Participants in

Assessment Pilots

Participants