Creating interactive past papers
I have a few Y13 students who are resiting their Unit 2 (G041) paper in January (OCR Applied GCE ICT). They have been panicking a bit and wanted to do some past papers. The issue is that Section A is based on a case study and changes everytime, so lack of time means that’s out of the window. Therefore they can only practice the section B which is generic info about ICT and business. I have set up a small Edmodo group for them and have been sharing hints and tips for passing the exam as well as how to write the three main pre-release task. I also decided to create interactive past papers. These papers would enable them to answer different section B questions from past papers and click a submit via email button and I’d get their answers.
Having recently got from school a licenced copy of Adobe CS3 Master suite I had noticed a function called create form. Using Adobe lifecycle design I have managed to create a very simple and rustic interactive past paper. The video below will hopefully show how its done (although it seems to take an age to load! – was my first attempt at jing and think I made it too big – got carried away with my widescreen – updated now – used Camstudio and uploaded to youtube):
When the results are emailed back they come in an xml format. There have been a couple of issues with this…
- my school email won’t let me open it
- the opened xml file wasn’t the easiest to read
If you have a solution to either it’d be much appreciated… I’ll probably work it out if I RTFM but haven’t got around to that yet. Here is an example of a past paper that I have created. Jun07questionpaper