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XamSuite (1.1)

(Feb. 10 2005)

 Description | Features | Workflow | Requirements | Download | Installation | License

• Description:
XamSuite is a set of three applications that will let you save sets of multimedia questions for:
  • presenting them to a user as a computer generated exam
  • preparing written exams.

 

XamSuite is a set of native Cocoa applications, so it takes advantage of the latest and very powerful Mac OS X technologies, making it a very robust but at the same time easy to use solution.

Teachers, educators, here you have a very helpful tool, with a feature set that includes many of your own requests, that will help you be more productive
  

Limited time introductory offer:

XamSuite:
Price U$29.00
Offer: U$25.00


XamSuite Teacher Edition:
Price: U$35.00
Offer: U$30.00

• Features:

i) Xam Questions Editor:
This application will let you create and manage documents of multimedia questions, to later print them (for written exams for example) or use them for computer generated exams.

These questions can be organized into hierarchical collections. These collections can be organized into separate independent categories. All these are saved in a package, for easier transport / management: you'll only see one file for all this information:

Example:

Categories:

They define separate and independent sets of collections/questions. Their main purpose is to facilitate the handling of these, by packaging them in a single file.

 

Collections:

When you create a new document, there will be one collection by default: "All Questions" which will always contain any question created. You can have hierarchical collections but each collection is independent of it's sub-collections: a question added to a sub-collection will NOT be added to any of its parent collections.

 

Questions:

A question consists of:

 

Features summary:

- bundled categories

- hierarchical collections

- RTFD questions: text can be formated and can contain images (by pasting / drag and drop)

- questions type: Multiple Choice / Multiple Choice Many / True-False / Fill the blank

- Multiple Choice / Multiple Choice Many answers can be text or graphics

- question data: hint, duration, difficulty

- questions copy / paste support

- questions order can be changed (drag and drop)

- export question collections to RTFD

- print collections

- print / export preferences:

  • random order for questions
  • header
  • answers in 1 or 2 columns (to save paper)
  • answer keys

 

ii) Xam Editor:

This application will let you define a sequence of question collections and a set of preferences of how these questions will be presented to the user. You will select a Questions Document first, and then drag the desired collections into the exam contents table. It will show you the total duration according to the saved values for each question.

Example:

 

Features summary:

- user can set play order

- user can set play characteristics (see Xam for available settings)

iii) Xam:

This application will present a set of questions to the user, get the user's answers and score the exam at the end.
Features summary:

- use all the questions in an Xam Questions document or use the predefined ones in an Xam document

- Show Questions in Random Order

- Show Answers in Random Order

- Limit Time

- Use Kiosk Mode

- Exam navigation

- Enable Question Hints

- Show Feedback

- Show Exam Result

- Send Exam Result via Email

- Results Log

- Send Results Log via Email

- Limit Access to Preferences

• Workflow:

Here is a global view of the interaction of the different components of XamSuite:

• Workflow Examples:

For these examples we assume a teacher/student(s) scenario:

a) one computer, Xam Questions Editor:

teacher creates questions documents. These documents are then used to print out exams, by printing directly or exporting as RTFD to a word processor, where the final editing and printing is done.

b) one computer, Xam Questions Editor + Xam:

teacher creates questions documents. Student(s) open these with Xam.


c) one computer, Xam Questions Editor + Xam Editor + Xam:

teacher creates questions and exam documents. Student(s) open these exam documents with Xam.


d) many computers, Xam Questions Editor + Xam:

teacher(s) create questions documents. He then sets the Xam preferences and copies these to each student computer. Student(s) open the questions documents with Xam.

e) many computers, Xam Questions Editor + Xam Editor + Xam:

teacher(s) create questions documents. He then could:

• Requirements:

Requires Mac OS X v10.3 or higher

• Download:

• Installation:

Just drag the applications to your "Applications" folder (or any other folder where you have write access).

• License:

XamSuite is shareware. You will be able to run XamSuite (but some features will be limited/turned off), giving you a chance to evaluate it and decide if you want to register your copy.

To be able to use the all the features in XamSuite, you will have to register your copy by entering a registration code.

Registrations are processed by Kagi Software. To register, please go to:

https://order.kagi.com/?PHG

Once the registration process is completed, you will receive within a few hours (usually minutes), a registration code that will allow you to use all the features in XamSuite.

Just select the "Register Xam..." menu option under the Xam application menu and type in your name and registration code.

Registration cost is: