Comments on: Feedback Wanted – R/S Core Knowledge Sim Update

By: Pedro Mindlin

Pedro Mindlin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:14:45 +0000

I agree with the self grading method. You can put a little checkbox on each question and the user would mark it correct or not.

The only problem with that is we don’t grade our actual lab questions, so maybe you could add some “proctor interpretation uncertainty” to the final grade

I also had the experience of taking a very tricky and specific memorization question in the real lab, so I don’t agree with taking them out. Of course we can’t memorize everything, but it’s not a bad idea to have some stuff fresh in memory before the lab.

Regards, Pedro.

By: dworth

dworth — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:21:39 +0000

Hi,

A link to corresponding information would be ideal. I would also like to see blueprint breakout per quiz. Basically how your Vol. Labs are broken out, so should the quizzes.

One other cool thought, at least to me would be sending out a couple of questions a day from a database like your email sig to customers who want to register for them.

Thanks,

By: Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:04:27 +0000

Having the option of reviewing the material by topic would be most helpful. Retain the random option, though, to keep us on our toes.
The ideal would be to present questions in the order you introduced in a recent post based on the memorising intervals. I guess that would mean abandoning the Adobe engine and maintaining state across our sessions. There are packages out there that can do this. One of them loaded up with your excellent content would be the ‘killer app’ in this area, I reckon. I would be happy to discuss this further if you wish.

By: INE Instructor

INE Instructor — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:49 +0000

Hi Tony!

By self grade – it would be you type in the response – click next – and then you see the correct answer and a more information link.

Eliminating the random engine would speed it up to be immediate.

By: Russell Chalmers

Russell Chalmers — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:31:37 +0000

I like the idea of organizing questions by topic. I am not sure on the self graded questions, if that is more to the type of question format that we will get in the exam then that option sounds great. Maybe put an option in for both Computer Grading and Self Grading. That way if you wan to test yourself you have the option of both.

Might also be an idea to stipulate which format is most likely to be seen in the exam.(Not sure if one type or both are in the exam)

Thanks for the great material so far.

By: federic0

federic0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:41:15 +0000

all of the above are good improvements, i would suggest to use a system which is not so cpu intensive, that one from adobe keeps my cpu above 95% all the time…

By: tony

tony — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:10:19 +0000

“Organize questions by topic area of the blueprint”, this will be great.

btw, what do you mean by self graded ? can u more specific ?

one more thing
loading the engine take times
can u speed up that ?

thx

By: bam

bam — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:18:00 +0000

For each question have a reference link to where the the answer is explained. Since some of the questions are design questions, the online Cisco doc might not be enough — in those cases, you should provide a brief explanation of the issue along with diagrams if applicable.

Organizing by blueprint topic is a must.

By: kilo

kilo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:10:49 +0000

Hi, I think all the above points would be fantastic improvements on the current version, but imho the first is the most critical and should be implemented as a matter of priority. Any ideas on how far away this update would be?
Thanks for keeping us posted

By: Omar Garcia

Omar Garcia — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:08:19 +0000

I think by topic would be a great idea.