Extending the Role of Audit Trails: A Modular Approach

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Judd, T. & Kennedy, G. (2001). Extending the Role of Audit Trails: A Modular Approach. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 10(4), 377-395. Norfolk, VA: AACE.
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Journal Information

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
ISSN 1055-8896
Volume 10, Issue 4, 2001
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)  Norfolk, VA

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Authors

Terry Judd, Gregor Kennedy, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

Audit trails are records of user activities within educational technology environments (ETEs)1. A generic, yet flexible audit trail system that fulfils a wide range of auditing roles and which, through a modular approach, ensures scalability and simplifies data management has been developed. While designed specifically for use with Macromedia's Director® authoring software, the system's framework ensures future compatibility with many widely used script-based authoring environments. The audit trail system consists of a series of functions that create and service a master record (the audit trail), comprising any number of object records corresponding to specific user activities. Five types of objects are supported by the system-timer, counter, string, numeric and boolean. A separate history function can be used to create a detailed sequential record of the timing and sequence of user activities. The system includes a number of developer support tools designed to simplify its implementation within target ETEs. Three examples of implementations of the audit trail system into medical courseware are described. These examples were designed to illustrate the range and type of auditing roles that the system can fulfil and to assess its performance against a series of predefined design criteria.

Keywords

• Educational Technology

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