Tools for the QTI standard

What is QTI?

QTI is a technical standard for storing questions, tests, and results, allowing interoperability between different assessment systems.

Official specifications

The source-of-truth documents published by 1EdTech for the QTI 3 standard.

• QTI OverviewA quick overview of where QTI fits in the ecosystem, with links to all other relevant specification docs.
• QTI 3 Beginner's GuideA simple beginner's guide. Essential reading — start here before diving into the rest of the spec.
• Best Practices and Implementation GuideThe core document for building any technical integration. Shows the full breadth of what's possible.
• Assessment Information ModelThe technical data model. Mainly relevant if you're implementing a QTI player or exporter yourself.

Useful tools

Hosted utilities for inspecting, editing, and converting QTI packages.

• Citolab QTI PlaygroundA great tool by the team at Citolab — makes it easy to test your QTI packages and convert them from QTI 2 to 3.
• ONYX EditorOnline assessment editor. Only supports QTI 2.1, but useful for understanding how XML markup maps to UI concepts.

QTI Players

Open-source players for rendering and interacting with QTI content.

• Cito Player
  QTI 3Web ComponentsCertified
• Ampio
  QTI 3Vue.jsCertified
• QTI.js
  QTI 2.2Plain JS

Libraries

• @examplary/qtiTypeScript library for parsing, creating, and manipulating QTI items and assessments programmatically.npm install @examplary/qti