NationalAssessmentResource

Introductions

Charles Duncan, CEO, Intrallect

Rob Arntsen, CEO, MyKnowledgeMap

Bob Dryburgh, Chairman, Leading Software

Peter Douglas, Operations Director, Intrallect

Dave Waller, Operations Director, MyKnowledgeMap

Proposal Overview (including Organisation and Roles)

User Journey (Assessment Creation)

Workflows

Security

Who we are

E-commerce

IT services

Environmental Software

Voice Biometrics

Digital repositories

Established partnership

Overview

• Exciting, innovative, engaging education– It’s what we do, and we have done it before

• Nationally important– World-leading system for Scotland

• What does Intrallect-MKM offer?– Existing, integrated solution– Unparalleled knowledge– All resources focused on delivery

Principles and Approach

• Collaborative– Long-term partnerships with clients

• User-journeys– User journeys drive the functional requirements

– Roles + Workflows = User Experiences

• Iterative– Continuous improvement around user journeys

• Test-first– Test is part of design

• Quality Assurance– Tests and user journeys are constant framework for evaluation

Communication channels

NAR Team

Solution ArchitectDave Waller

Project DirectorCharles Duncan

NARProject Manager

NARQuality Team

QA ManagerMiriam Lowe

NARStakeholders

MKM DevelopmentBecky Mallet

Intrallect DevelopmentChris Thomson

Authentication ServiceWorkflow ServiceResource Repository

Content Creation ToolAssessment ConstructionAssessment Delivery

Project AdvisorRob Arntsen

Project ManagerPeter Douglas

SQAExecutive Sponsor

LTSExecutive Sponsor

Project Board

Architecture

Other users

Sample User Journey

Roles + Workflows = User ExperiencesAssessment Construction

– A teacher logs in to construct a paper based assessment to use with a class. She uses an algorithm to generate an assessment from the topic and level with three groups of questions of differing difficulties.

User logs into the NAR through their GLOW account

User reaches their NAR portal homepage

User clicks to create a new assessment

Compendle launches and the user chooses how to create their assessment

A blank assessment is created in Compendle

The user then clicks the “auto-construct” button for the course

The user chooses to re-use an existing assessment template rather than specify their own rules

An assessment is automatically constructed based on the chosen template

The publish wizard guides the user through selecting a delivery method

The user chooses document and PDF and chooses to publish a marking scheme as a secure PDF

The assessment is automatically built and supplied ready for the user to download

Workflow

• Traditional view

Workflow editor: 1

Workflow editor: 2

Security – track record

• Working with nuclear industry– Penetration testing

• Working with NHS– Complex integration

– Single sign-on

– Users from multiply authenticated sources

Security

During access to the service User authentication - all pages and web services require user to be

logged in. Every request to server authenticated. Session timeout - users automatically logged out Option of restricting access to allowed IP addresses Extra security around releasing assessments/marking schemes

For the storage and transmission of data Encrypting/hashing data in database. E.g. Passwords, Assessments,

marking schemes PDFs – use PDF authentication for documents (Adobe Lifecycle ES) HTTPS – secure data transactions

More security

Via any roles based permission service Access to assessments and marking schemes based on role,

workflow and individual permissions

System functionality restricted by role at procedural level

Admin tasks restricted to organisation group

Against malicious attacks Defensive coding against cross-site scripting, SQL injection, etc.

All user inputs validated throughout systems

Testing - user data input, user access and penetration testing

Server security - physical server security, network security

What we will deliver

• Easy of use – designed for the user experience, powerful search and discovery

• Power and flexibility – tried and tested, international standards, already used in national services

• Solid pedagogical/technical basis - full metadata support with excellent taxonomy support

• Seamless web services - integration with Glow and familiar applications

• Multi-linguality - assessments and metadata (English, Gaelic, and others)

• Algorithmic assessment creation - based on metadata, statistics and teacher-selected criteria

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… a service Scotland can be proud of

Delivery

NAR Lite January 2010– Authentication Service

– Workflow Service

– Content Creation Tool

– Resource Repository

NAR June 2010– Integration (Glow, etc.)

– Assessment Construction

– Assessment Delivery