The primary problem when trying to integrate an AICC course with an AICC server is the interpretation of the AICC specifications. Specifically the issues come up with the following:
Scoring
How do you keep a student from retaking a test, thereby overwriting their score?
- Some vendors only handle a simple number 0-100 (no decimal support). The issue is, without decimal support, how do you grade a test that has multiple matching questions?
- Where is data placed for transfer?
- Can use both objectives and interactions to store results of one test.
- Each vendor may interpret differently
- Assignable Units
- An assignable unit is the smallest piece of a course that can be served
- Each time the student changes assignable units, the server must be involved, this may lead to slow courses being served to students.
- Note: ReadyGo interprets an AU as either a chapter or a whole course
- Compliance:
- Many courses have been certified as compliant; however on further investigation, these courses do not have any tests or tracking.