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As this message is going out to many different mailing lists, we apologise if you recieve this message more than once. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JISC/JTAP Project 2/10 Project Directors: Project Development Officer: Dr Alan Cann Dr Helen Pownall Dr Richard Mobbs Learning Technology Group University of Leicester This is to announce the CAsTLe (Computer Assisted Teaching and Learning) project on-line test authoring tool. The CAsTLe project is funded by the JISC/JTAP programme and started on the 1st October last year. It's aims are to provide a 'High Level Authoring Shell for On-Line Interactive Tutorials and Assessment', by developing a comprehensive courseware authoring tool, which will enable tutors to produce and maintain on-line Web pages. This will enhance the learning resources available to the student for a fairly minimal time investment on behalf of the tutor or course developer. On-line resources will also help to address the issue of the changing demography of the student population (distance learners, mature and part-time students) and can also increase the contact time between tutor and student. Effective question design means that assessment questionnaires can test different cognitive processes (e.g., comprehension, application and evaluation) as well as the ability to recall facts. The project home page can be found at: http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/ltg/castle/ where you will find more information about the CASTLE project, examples of on-line tests which have been created using the CASTLE MCQ authoring tool, and the CASTLE toolkit itself, which is freely available for use. These pages are best viewed with Netscape v3.0 or higher. The present toolkit consists of: The mark engine. The 'create' tool. Users enter tests via a web form. The 'modify' tool. Users can modify previously created tests to add feedback, HTML tags (i.e. to add inline images, and links, etc.), add and delete options from a question, add and delete entire questions from a test page, and change the title text, and background and text colours. One major advantage of this toolkit is that it requires no prior knowledge of HTML or any other form of mark-up tags, as the text is entered via a Web form, and the test pages are returned immediately to the browser. Also with the use of images and pdf files, users can include scientific symbols and diagrams which are not included in the current HTML specification. Please visit our home page and have a look at the facilities that are available, and feel free to contact me if you require any more information about this project, or wish to make an appraisal of the project to assist in its development. ******************************************************************************* Dr. Helen Pownall ][ JISC Project ][ Learning Technology Group ][ Tel 0116 2525085 or 0116 2525195 9th Floor Charles Wilson ][ Fax 0116 2522198 University of Leicester ][ Leicester, LE1 7RH ][ ******************************************************************************* %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%