DisnEditor: A browser extension for QTI-compliant assessment item authoring

Abstract

Many users want to author assessment items directly from web pages. Existing authoring tools usually use the clipboard to perform the 'select-copy-paste' operation on web pages. Because web pages have complicated structures and can include invisible resources, the clipboard-based approach has several limitations: 1) it cannot keep the resource in its original form; 2) it cannot select invisible resources; and 3) it may have to select unnecessary resources. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes dinsEditor as a browser-based approach for assessment item authoring tools. It is offered as a browser extension that allows the authoring environment to make full use of the resources of web pages and to utilize the exact resources user want. It enables web resources to be maintained in their original form during the assessment item authoring process. The assessment items created through dinsEditor observe the QTI standard by using the QTI Translator.