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LON-CAPA: A Powerful Course Management and Assessment System

LON-CAPA is a robust and feature-rich course management and assessment system that offers more capabilities than most systems. However, many faculty members are unaware of its extensive features. Discover the power of LON-CAPA and streamline your course management tasks with its user-friendly interface.

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LON-CAPA: A Powerful Course Management and Assessment System

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  1. LON-CAPA 3.0 … why we have a 2.10

  2. Background • History: CAPA started as a pure assessment system • Course Management added later • Currently still reflected in the interface • Present: Consolidation of commercial course management systems

  3. Idea

  4. Background • More features than most system … but faculty don’t know about them • Enormous number of parameters, settings, configurations … sometimes hard to keep track – “Discoverability” • Very powerful system: “We make the scissors, you do the running.” • Move to the foreground what is important at the time when it’s needed

  5. Idea

  6. Idea

  7. Home • Home screen shows what is going on across courses, communities, … • Replaces Roles screen

  8. What’s New • Within courses, communities, author spaces – also for students

  9. Contextualization

  10. Contextualization • “Flight management system” • Display pertinent information when needed ! High degree of difficulty Generally: Open Change Not open for section 003 Change Generally: Due May 17, 2010 Change 4 Messages regarding this problem Read Extend due date Increase maximum number of tries

  11. Navigation ! ! !

  12. … and De-Contextualization • “I want to do grading …” • System: “Okay, what do you want to grade?”

  13. Feature Enhancements • Enhancing some of the existing features

  14. New Helpers • More helpers to accomplish tasks • “I want to turn this folder into an exam” • hiding • dates • exam mode • etc

  15. New Grading Interface • Disentangle

  16. New Gradebook • Currently: • Simple: Chart • Way advanced: Spreadsheet • Missing in-between: “normal gradebook” • Challenges: • Hard to find the 95% use cases • Grading seems to be a very … individualistic activity

  17. New Gradebook

  18. New Search • Increase speed of current resource search • Simplify display of result Chug, chug, chug, … Huh?

  19. New Search – Long-term Goals • Recommender system based on dynamic metadata • Shopping cart metaphor for importing resources

  20. Casualties • Remote Control • Current bookmarks – become shopping cart • … ? • But: remain backward compatible! • We still support content written in 1993

  21. Little Reminder • LON-CAPA is open-source • We have a strong collaboration with the group at Ostfalia: • Thesis projects • Publications • Fulltime staff • Project courses • Contributions to installation packages, debugging, etc, from other partners • Possible new collaborations, for example with MIT • There’s always room for more!

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