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A Customisable Question
and Answer Database
Kate Lindsay
Problem Domain
• More and more academics are
wanting to give their students
informal tests for practice
purposes.
• Students are increasingly
requesting resources to help them
prepare for their exams.
Project
• Nuffield Department of Clinical
Laboratory Sciences required a
system for delivering practice tests
to students that
- Allows lecturers to upload their own clinical
case studies with questions and answers without
having to code.
- Enables students to search for case studies
and test their knowledge.
More than this . . .
• Build up trails of case studies to
create a clinical case scenario.
• Enable lecturers to use and edit
each other’s case studies whilst
not changing the original.
• Upload a variety of multimedia to
support textual info.
Technology
• ASP and SQL
• Backend relational Access
database
• HTML web pages incorporating
more complex HTML parameters
for multimedia objects.
• Delivered via a Windows 2000
server.
Upload View
After an initial
login lecturers
will move
through a
series of pages
to upload a
case study.
Lecturer’s
case studies
will be
available for
others to
duplicate and
edit if they
wish to
include it in
their own
case scenario
trail.
Include
graphical, audio
and video data.
These files are
stored as a url
in the database
rather than
binary data.
Simple
metadata will
be stored
about any
multimedia
files.
Copyright
very
important.
After selecting
how many
questions will
be attached to
the case study,
questions,
answers and
accompanying
images will be
uploaded.
Lecturer’s will
be able to edit
the order in
which their
case studies
appear.
User view
Students
can perform
searches via
different
criteria .
Students will be
presented with a
case like this.
They can type in
their responses
if they so wish
and check them
against
individual
question
answers or . . .
. . . Submit them
Summary
• ASP is a relatively simple means to
create a dynamic question and
answer system.
• The Case Scenarios Database
could provide a shell for other
subjects wishing to introduce a
similar approach in their teaching.