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X-Quest offers creation, maintenance, and visualization of questionnaires with modules for control, design, and evaluation accessible via web browsers. Supports various question types and export formats. Multilanguage and multimedia integration available.
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X-Quest: A Questionnaire-Authoring Tool for Distance Evaluation J.C. Burguillo, D.A. Rodríguez, F. Buendía, J.V. Benlloch Grupo de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos Dpto. de Ingeniería Telemática Universidade de Vigo SPAIN Dpto. de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores Universidad Politécnica de Valencia SPAIN
What does X-Quest offer? • X-Quest authoring tool allows: Creation, Maintenance, and Visualization of multipurpose questionnaires. • X-Quest has 3 main modules accessible by any commercial Web browser: • The Questionnaire Control Center, • The Design Module, and • The Evaluation Module.
Questionnaire Control Center • Create, modify or delete questionnaires. • Preview the final questionnaire appearance. • Save questionnaires at the server side or export data in several formats: XML, etc. • Multilanguage Support.
The Design Module QUESTIONNAIRE PANEL • This module may be used to create new questionnaries from scratch. • Contains four different panels that may be accessed from the upper selection bar.
The Evaluation Module • Students may access X-Quest using any commercial Web browser. • A timer is started when the browser displays the questionnaire HTML page. • When the time expires, the filled answers are sent to the server and the student is notified. • The server process and evaluates the answers and returns a new HTML page with the results and a feedback message.
What kind of questions can we Design? • There are three basic types of questions supported: • Selection, • Multiple Choice, and • Textual Answer, with several possibilities: • Long Text (sent by e-mail to the tutor), • Short Text, • Numeric. • Questions may include multimedia elements located at different positions in the Web page and configured by the instructor.
May we use X-Quest, download, or install it ? • X-Quest has been implemented in Java and may be used with any commercial browser. • In THEIERE site in Vigo we give detailed instructions to use, download or install the tool with a few mouse clicks.
Summary • X-Quest authoring tool allows the creation,maintenance and evaluation of multipurpose questionnaires. • The data of questionnaires created with X-Quest may be exported in different formats, for instance, as XML documents. • The resources generated are compatible with the IMS specification and may interoperate with IMS enabled learning systems.
The Authors VIGO VALENCIA J.C. Burguillo, D.A. Rodríguez, F.Buendía, J.V. Benlloch Univ. de Vigo, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia SPAIN jrial@uvigo.esfbuendia@disca.upv.es Get X-Quest at: http://papa.det.uvigo.es