camino browser download Exams. We assess our students on a regular basis, but we rarely stop to evaluate the assessment! Does your test assess student knowledge at the level you intended (e.g., descriptive, evaluate, apply, analyze)? Does it address the most important learning objectives of a unit or the course? Will the exam preparation and test itself encourage students to consolidate their knowledge and even extend their understanding of the material? Evaluating tests—usually those tests with true-false, multiple choice, and short answer questions—includes investigating the test—e.g., measuring reliability and validity—and the individual questions—e.g., measuring difficulty and discrimination. The following descriptions offer more detail about each method of measurement: Reliability – How consistently does the test assess student achievement of the learning outcomes? Validity – How well does the test represent the knowledge or skills students need to achieve the learning outcomes? Difficulty – How hard is each question to answer? Calculated as the percentage of students who answered the question correctly. Discrimination – How well does each test question differentiate between students who perform well on the test—e.g., highest quartile—and those who perform poorly—e.g., lowest quartile? Evaluating your tests does not mean you are trying to make the tests easier. It means you are making sure each test is fair, covers material students should have experienced through your class, and consistently assesses achievement of specific learning outcomes. Learning management systems like Canvas (SCU's Camino) simplify the process quite a bit, by allowing you to review statistics related to the quiz results and even download a quiz item analysis . If analysis shows a question is very difficult, check the wording of both the question and response options. If the question itself is misleading, then you may choose to throw out that question. If a response option other than the correct one is partially true or correct in a different context, then you may choose to rescore that question and count the other response as correct or partially correct. In some cases, you may be drawing from pools or banks of test questions provided by a textbook publisher. Be sure to vet the questions before using them in a test, or evaluate those tests when you first use them. Online Exams. Facilitating an online exam can present some unique logistical challenges. Below are a few tips to consider when creating an online exam. Camino Quizzes. Use these steps to differentiate your quiz if you need to alter due dates or times for one or many students. This is for students who will be taking the same quiz but at a different day or time. Use these steps to moderate your quiz if you need to provide additional time or attempts for an individual student. This is for students who receive additional time, for students who inadvertently submit their quiz, or for students who need additional time or attempts due to technical difficulties occurring during the quiz. Make sure the quiz does not close before the additional time for a student is up. The "Available Until" date and time should be the time the last student has to complete the quiz. Avoid fill-in-the-blank questions. Students are provided unlimited options for entry, but their answer will have to match the answer character-for-character in order to be marked as correct. Make sure to use settings so that students cannot see the correct answers after the quiz . A good strategy is to create a date range to display the correct answers after every student has taken the quiz, set a start date in the Show field, and set an ending date in the Hide field. Set a due date and time for the quiz. Students will see the time for the time zone of your class , and they can change that setting for their account. Essay Questions. Within Camino quizzes, you can include essay questions. Keep in mind, though, that if students spend a long time writing in the text box and then experience network connectivity issues, they could lose their work. There are two safeguards for this. You can recommend students write their responses in a separate document and then paste it over to the quiz, or you could create a File Upload question where students upload a PDF, Doc, or docx response. If you want to let students choose from a list of essay prompts, the best way to do this is to set up the essay as an assignment in Camino. This way, you can post the prompts and your grading criteria, and students can respond in a Google Doc or Word file. If you set up multiple essay prompts in a Camino quiz and ask students to only respond to a portion of them, they will automatically lose points for not filling out all the prompts. LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor. See this guide for detailed information about using LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor. Share the software link and Respondus guide with students well before the actual test so that they have time to prepare. Give students a low-stakes practice exam before the high-stakes assessment for them to work out any tech issues. Provide alternative assignments for students who are unable to use the software. Take a practice exam (available in the “Keep Calm and Carry On” Camino course ) to experience the software for yourself. Additional Resources. Page authors: Dr. Kevin Kelly, Lecturer at San Francisco State University Brian Larkin, SCU Instructional Technology Manager. Last updated: August 5, 2020. 500 El Camino Real Walsh Administration Building Santa Clara, California 95053-0460 Office: 408 554 4533 Fax: 408 551 6074. Camino 2.1.2. 'Camino' is a Web browser that combines two flavors: Mac OS X and Mozilla. This browser uses the same engine that is implemented in the FireFox browser. This browser is a true Mozilla product. The result of the Acid2 test confirms that too. This browser is a fast implementation of the Mozilla engine, Gecko. I am referring to the possibility to start this browser very quickly and to the Webpage's fast rendering speed. This is one of the fastest browsers for Mac OS X. Most of the fast browsers that I tested on this Mac had issues. Some of them were poor implementations of the Apple engine and some weren't ergonomic at all. This browser has an efficient and highly customizable interface. I was disappointed, when I found out that Camino doesn't have a session saving functionality. However, since Google is my friend, I found that there is a CaminoSession program, which enables that kind of functionality in Camino. This browser doesn't have some features that Firefox does. Camino doesn't have the extension support, it doesn't support search plug-in, and it doesn't have an auto-completion feature for the text boxes on the Web pages that you visit. However, you can find features like pop-up blocking. The notification is not very intuitive, so you have to be careful when you need to enable a requested pop-up. The 'Preferences' panel is quite simple. It just gives you the minimal set of options that you need to customize the behavior of this browser. If you used Firefox before, configuring this panel won't be an issue at all. Pluses: It's fast. It uses low resources. It's ergonomic and it's highly customizable. Drawbacks / flaws: It doesn't have a session saving functionality, by default. It doesn't have a good auto-completion feature. Opening links that target into a new window open a new window of the browser, instead of just opening a new tab inside the browsing window that you currently use. In conclusion: If you want a really fast browser and you can live without some features that you can find in Firefox, Opera, or OmniWeb, then Camino is a good option. It also provides a good user interface unlike other Mozilla products. Well, SeaMonkey, a Mozilla product, is a browser that isn't that customizable. version reviewed: 1.0.3. Camino Publisher's Description. Camino (formerly known as Chimera) is a web browser for Mac OS X that has a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. It is intended to be a simple, small and fast browser for Mac OS X. Considered one of the fastest Web browsers on Mac OS X, Camino also integrates tightly with the platform, adopting the refined style, user- focused. Why I Still Use the Camino Browser Almost Every Day. Camino is a port of Netscape specifically to Mac OS X. It began in late 2001 when Mike Pinkerton and Vidur Apparao launched a proof-of- concept project to embed Netscape’s Gecko rendering engine in a Cocoa application. Cocoa is Apple’s native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for Mac OS X and is rooted in NeXTstep, which Apple acquired along with Steve Jobs at the end of 1996. Dave Hyatt, one of the co-creators of Firefox (the next generation of Netscape), joined the team in early 2002 and built Chimera, a small, lightweight browser wrapper, around their work. A chimera is a mythological beast with parts taken from various animals, and the new browser was a hybrid of C++ and Objective-C, combining Netscape’s Gecko engine and other traditional Netscape bones and muscles under a Cocoa and Carbon skin. (Carbon was a programming environment that supported both the Classic Mac OS and OS X; Cocoa is OS X only.) Low End Mac probably looks just like this in your modern, up-to-date browser. But this is 5-year-old Camino, which was already outdated by the time of its last update. It was fast. It started with the Netscape code that had been honed since 1994 and set it free to run like lightning on PowerPC hardware and Mac OS X. Other browsers used Cocoa as their rendering engine, but Gecko put Internet Explorer and OmniWeb (the first OS X browser) to shame. Hyatt must have impressed the people at Apple because in mid-2002 Apple hired him to help develop Apple’s own browser, which eventually arrived as Safari. Undaunted by the loss, the small Chimera team continued to develop their browser in hopes of previewing it at the January 2003 Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Unfortunately, AOL, which owned Netscape at that time, pulled the rug from under them two days before the Expo. A New Name. The team abandoned the Chimera name for legal reasons and adopted Camino, Spanish for road , as the new name for their browser. Camino 0.7 was available on March 3, 2003 and a testament to open source – the path Netscape chose for its future when it launched the Mozilla project that gave us Firefox. Camino remained a “preview” project until February 14, 2006, when Camino 1.0 became a reality. This was the first Mozilla project released as a universal binary, software that can run natively on PowerPC and Intel Macs. This was mere weeks after the first Intel Macs had been launched. Welcomed with Open Arms. The Mac Web welcomed Camino with open arms. Those of us who published on the Web and researched on the Web were always looking for the next great thing in browsers, and for the Mac community, Camino gave us the features of Firefox without its then-ugly user interface. Instead, we got something almost as pretty as Safari. Compatible with Web Standards. There were intermediate versions, Camino 1.5 and 1.6, leading up to the release of Camino 2.0 in November 2009. This was the first version of Camino with movable tabs and the first to pass Acid2, an industry standard test of browser compatibility with web standards. Apple’s Safari browser was the first to pass Acid2, which it did in Oct. 2005. Opera, Konqueror (the open source browser Apple used when developing Safari), Firefox, and most other browsers followed in short order. The Johnny-come-lately was the former bane of standards compliance, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Microsoft had always had its own way of doing things, standards be damned, and refused to make IE7 standards compliant because that would break all the Web pages designed for Microsoft’s “we are the standard” non-compliant browsers. Finally, in October 2009, IE8 arrived and passed Acid2 – five years behind Apple’s Safari. Legacy Software. So why do I continue to use Camino on my Macs? For one simple reason: It is the best tool for opening all of the thousands of pages of legacy Low End Mac content so I can cut and paste it into WordPress. From there I can check and replace or delete broken links and run Grammarly to smooth out rough grammar, punctuation, and usage. I try to squeeze in a few pages a day. We currently have 3,100 pages published in WordPress and about 5,000 still in HTML, so this is going to be a long process. Then again, there is some content – most of the weekly news roundups, for instance – that can be left behind. That could reduce the count by 1,000 or so. As for working on the Web, Camino displays the Low End Mac homepage and content just fine. Pretty impressive for a browser that was discontinued almost five years ago and was already dated at the time. If you’re looking for a fast browser, download Camino and give it a try! Camino: A Better Mac Browser than Safari or Firefox. Will we ever be able to live with just one web browser on our Macs? It seems unlikely for a number of reasons. First and foremost, no one browser works with all sites. What chokes in Safari might render properly in Firefox. And Opera or iCab might handle what fails in the other browsers. Although web standards are more closely adhered to than in the past, we all know the “try it in another browser” routine. With the arrival of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Safari 2, I thought I could finally settle in with one browser. With version 2, Safari reclaimed the speed advantage that it had lost to Firefox in OS X 10.3.x, and I was hooked on Safari’s new RSS integration. Firefox. But the occasional site incompatibility and web development work would bring up the need to use an alternate browser. Most of the time, Firefox would fill that need. Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine is widely compatible, and this open source, standards-based browser is remarkably consistent across all major platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux). It’s the second most popular browser on the Web and gaining in market share all the time. The only problem is that Firefox is not very Mac-like, even with the “enhanced Mac OS X support” in version 1.5. In the interest of platform portability, Firefox includes a lot of its own libraries designed compile easily on multiple operating systems. This means that Firefox doesn’t have the OS X look and feel that Mac-only apps have. Aesthetically, it feels more like a Windows or Linux app ported over to the Mac. Since it doesn’t tap into OS X’s native interface element widgets, it has to load its own. This makes Firefox more resource intensive than other Mac browsers. Camino. But the Gecko environment is available in a native Mac OS X app, in the form of the wonderful and often-neglected Camino browser. [Camino was updated to version 2.1.2 in March 2012 and is now dormant – yet it is compatible through OS X 10.9 Mavericks.] I was a big fan of this project (originally known as Chimera) in the pre-Safari days. The original goal was one that the Firefox team took and ran with – to take the browser component out of the large Netscape/Mozilla suites and create a lean, fast, next generation Gecko-based browser. Before January 2003, Camino was far and away the fastest browser on the Mac. Even after Safari shipped, Camino had more features. Tabbed browsing, for instance, didn’t appear in Safari for a couple of months after its 1.0 release. With Safari and Firefox providing stiff competition, Camino lay dormant for a long while. But as time went by and a small faction of users began to complain about Firefox’s lack of optimization for the Mac platform, the project came back to life. Not too long ago, I decided to download the latest nightly build of Camino to see how it’s doing these days. Better Than Firefox. Suffice to say, I was very impressed. This is the Mac browser that Firefox could easily be. In my experience on a 1 GHz PowerBook G4, Camino blows the doors off Firefox 1.5 in rendering speed and overall interface snappiness. Being built as a native Cocoa app, Camino takes full advantage of being a full-fledged Mac app. Interface elements and widgets look beautiful and familiar. It also demands less of your CPU and RAM than its more popular cousin. Better Than Safari. Beyond that, the sheer performance of the Gecko engine really shines. Although a few months ago I didn’t think anything could top Safari 2’s speed on my Mac, to my eyes Camino now has a nice edge in the speed department. Your mileage may vary, but it can’t be argued that Camino does what it does very well and very fast. The development team isn’t content to simply make a Mac-ified Firefox. Some of the best features of Safari have been incorporated, including the ability to reset the app and empty the cache from the Camino menu. There’s also a nice implementation of Safari’s bookmark manager/history browser. Unique Features. Camino keeps a “Top 10 most visited sites” list in “Show History” that I have found to be really neat. We all have a pretty good idea of what sites we visit most often, but nothing beats actual statistics. Some features that Camino shares with Firefox that Safari doesn’t have include a more flexible popup blocker. You can specify which sites can allow popups while blocking them at all other sites. Safari simply lets you turn popup blocking on or off. Missing Features. One Firefox feature sorely missed in Camino is extensions. The multitude of extensions for Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers provides an amazing amount of browser customization. However, some of the best of these extensions have been wrapped into CamiTools,* which adds a new pane to Camino’s preferences window. Among its many features, CamiTools takes care of two things I miss most from Firefox’s extensions – ad blocking and adding additional sites to the website search box (in addition to the standard Google search). Now if someone could port the Web Developer Toolbar to Camino, I’d be in heaven. If you’d like a change of pace – and perhaps a faster web browsing experience – go and get yourself a recent build of Camino. I’m enjoying it so much I’ve made it my default browser for now and gone back to Net News Wire Lite for my RSS needs. * Camitools is incompatible with versions of Camino going back to at least 2008, so we have removed the link to it. Camino. Phenomenal browser that uses Mozilla's Gecko engine. Latest version. Camino is a comprehensive web browser capable of giving Safari itself a run for its money. Its rendering engine is Gecko, the same one used by Mozilla. Camino improves on some features already available in other browsers, like the tab system: in this case, users can tell the browser that they want a single program window. The spellcheck is another important upgrade, as it checks the text while you type, highlighting potential mistakes. Just like in other browsers, Camino also saves browsing sessions so if it quits unexpectedly you can recover all the tabs you had open. The popup blocker is another interesting feature. It can even stop the download of Flash animations. Lastly, it has never been so easy to access your History and Bookmarks since Camino has integrated them into the same window.