http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Fri, 21 May 2010 11:11:26 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000780.html This is a talk I gave recently to a group of educator/trainers within the U of M Health System. Although it contains many UMHS-specific references, the concepts outlined in it can be applied to other training environments as well. There's nothing particularly original here, just some suggestions for how to select among different technologies commonly available. This was the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000554.html I've been working on several custom Questionmark Perception quizzes lately. As sometimes happens, it is not possible to use the Authoring Manager's Question Editor to create the questions, so I created an example question in the Editor that was as close as possible to the one I wanted, then exported it to QML and modified it to get the custom... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000553.html We had a request to mix fill-in-the-blank type choices with select-a-blank choices within a single question. Questionmark Perception really isn't set up to do this, so of course I had to see if I could get around it's limitations. You can add HTML and javascript to a question though, so I thought of this nefarious back-door trick to fool Perception... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000472.html A new security setting in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 has been causing problems with requests between iframe and parent. There is a security setting in the Internet options called "Navigate sub-frames across different domains", which in IE6 was set to "Enabled" under Medium security, but is set to "Disabled" in IE7 by default. An example of the type of communication... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000433.html The JCAHO Trivia Game was originally constructed in Questionmark Perception version 3, but it should work similarly in later versions. Article Sections: Path through the game Structure of the game Download Source Files Constructing the game... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000432.html Last January, I installed a test instance of Questionmark's Perception server, version 4.2, in preparation for upgrading our version 3.4 Perception server. At the time, we were using Oracle version 9i. Once installed, our testing went well, and we did not notice any significant problems. In July, we finally got around to doing the actual upgrade, and decided to upgrade... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000395.html img { border:1px solid #000; } pre { overflow:auto;width:600px;} Features of the new embedded quiz module:... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000318.html When Questionmark Perception is launched from an LMS using SCORM, Perception's built-in user management system can't be used. Perception receives user data from the LMS, and although it stores that data with the results of the quizzes, it can't use the data for purposes of scheduling and limiting access to quizzes. Unfortunately, our LMS, SumTotal 6.5, does not have a... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000286.html Our SumTotal (Docent) 6.5 learning management system uses SCORM to launch learning activities and quizzes. We had a case where several Perception Quizzes would not launch using Safari, but any other browser did launch them. On carefully examining the launch URL's we found that for some reason they had been HTML encoded in the database. In other words, the &... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000285.html If you use HTML in your assessment questions, be careful when setting up your Enterprise Reporter reports. If you check "show question wording", HTML within the body of the question will not be escaped. This means the browser tries to render it, and this can corrupt the table layout of the report. The workaround is to display only the question... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000284.html ol li { border-bottom:1px solid #666; margin-bottom:12px; } The out-of the-box Likert Scale question created by Perception is really just a slightly modified multiple choice question. The choices are arranged vertically, as shown in the example screen shot below. I prefer Likert Scale choices to be displayed horizontally as shown in the image below.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000234.html If you get errors when you try to export a Questionmark Perception quiz to Qpack, check to see if the template contains any images with %SYSTEM% in their paths. I had put some global button images into the system graphics folder because it seemed to be the appropriate place, but it turns out that doing so can cause problems with... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000209.html Making Questionmark Perception quizzes SCORM-compliant, AND compatible with Docent 6.5 LMS was a big piece of our recent Docent implementation project, since we had many legacy quizzes. Here are the steps involved: Install QMWise (available from Questionmark.com) on the Perception server. Install Content packager (available from Questionmark.com) on your workstation ( tip, do NOT have SSL enabled on the server... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000199.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000169.html We've had just about every sort of database connection issue with our two Questionmark Perception servers, so in the interest of saving someone else the kind of struggles we've gone through, here are some things to look for. tnsnames.ora issues: There is a file that lives in a subdirectory of the Oracle folder - this directory may be called Oracle_Home,...