Skilljar - Assessment Content Creation
Skilljar’s documentation handily includes some gifs of the authoring experience of question editing within quizzes:
Formatting options are extremely limited, and there is almost no flexibility to their question editor. Some HTML tags appear to be supported within questions, but they only publicise the use of <sub>
and <sup>
for subscript and superscript.
LTI
Skilljar supports LTI 1.1 only, and handles LTI integrations through a dedicated LTI dashboard:
Once this is set up, the author can include the LTI tool within a lesson by entering an LTI launch URL:
A few basic settings allow the author to control how the LTI tool is able to affect course activity and grading:
The most interesting thing about Skilljar’s LTI implementation is while it is very inflexible (there doesn’t appear to be any support for custom parameters, for example), they’ve gone a little step beyond LTI in making it simple to use. Every LTI request from Skilljar includes a set of custom parameters pulled from Skilljar’s APIs:
custom_published_course_id | {published course ID} |
custom_course_id | {Course ID} |
custom_lesson_id | {lesson ID} |
custom_enrollment_id | {enrollment ID} |
lis_result_resourcedid | {Student Lesson progress ID} |
resource_link_id | {published_course.obfuscated_id}-{lesson.obfuscated_id} |
resource_link_title | {course.title} - {lesson.title} |
This effectively means that while Skilljar is less flexible with its implementation, it does provide a consistent experience for both tool providers and course authors.