Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Next Internationalization update: 30/10/2009

Continuing now...

> *** Suggestions:
>
> - Increase the size of the noticeboard editing window a bit (maybe 5 lines ?). I know that there is full screen
> button, but not always handy.

Added for 2.4: tp://bugs.lamsfoundation.org/browse/LDEV-2464


> *** Questions about marks (lots of cultural issues involved too)
>
> - Is a mark always a score or can it be like a grade ? (I decided to use "scores" for MCQ's and Q/A) and grades for
> the others, but I am not too happy with this. Anyhow, you should know that in some countries double or triple scales
> like in the US are rarely used (see next item).
>
> - Marks (e.g. for the forum) are anglo-centric. E.g. in Germany or Switzerland you could get a grade like 5.5 or
> 1.5. There is IMHO no need to require integers. Also, how are go dealing with Americans. Those guys are used to a
> double system i.e a 50 to 100 scale that translates into letter grades. But typically students want to see letter
> grades (I believe).

We are doing some very interesting work on evaluations with our colleagues from Universidad de Cadiz in Spain as part of the implementation of Evalcomix project. Here's a paper on Evalcomix http://is.gd/4VUpZ and as soon as we can we'll show you a demo on how this works. But in short, this would allow teachers to create rubrics, scales and any type of assessment/evaluation instrument and use in to any LAMS activity.

As far as your suggestions on English and French translations: yes to all! Hopefully we can work together to improve the way we do translations as suggested on my email.

Thanks,

Ernie

Posted by Ernie Ghiglione