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
i used this to do a survey. replies are still emailed back but instead of opening the xml, i save it to a pre-defined folder (you do this when you first create the form). Then adobe collates the results for you.
you can even export the results to Excel if you want to do more fancy stuff like filtering, graphing, etc (ie use spreadsheet features).
that said, thanks for the idea of using this for tests. unfortunately, it’s not that easy for maths.
Excellent..knew there was a way of collating the data…will have a look at that next. Many thanks for advice. cheers.