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What’s New in LON-CAPA?. Gerd Kortemeyer January 2006. What’s New in LON-CAPA?. New organizational structures Commercial business Consortium Outlook Next Generation Clickers. New functionality Content assembly Course overview Communication Portfolio Grading
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What’s New in LON-CAPA? Gerd Kortemeyer January 2006
What’s New in LON-CAPA? • New organizational structures • Commercial business • Consortium • Outlook • Next Generation Clickers • New functionality • Content assembly • Course overview • Communication • Portfolio • Grading • Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science • New@MSU • Users, courses, and disciplines • Automated course generation • Automated enrollment • Single-sign-on
Content Assembly • Cross-institutional network • 41 colleges and universities • 31 middle and high schools
Content Assembly • Total holdings (Fall 2005): 148,483 resources • Content pages: 38,308 • Problems: 52,592 • Images: 49,340 • Content assemblies: 6,643 • Animations: 700 • Movies: 500 • Simulations: 400
Content Assembly Sorted by access count
Content Assembly • Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF National Science Digital Library
Content Assembly • Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files from your local computer
Communication • Tighter coupling between messages and course • Messages tied to resource and course
Communication • We always had
Communication • Now included direct jumps to take action in response to messages
Portfolio • Every user has portfolio space
Portfolio • Files from portfolio can be turned in for projects • Versionmanage-ment
Grading • New grading and review queues for manually graded assignments • Course staff in different roles working through submitted work
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Computer Science • Bridge Tasks for CSE 101 • Management and scheduling of tasks • Time-and-place slots • Project assignments with artifacts graded on multiple dimensions • Coupled with portfolio space
LON-CAPA@MSU • LON-CAPA and predecessor systems CAPA and LectureOnline used at MSU since 1992
Automated Course Generation • http://loncapa.msu.edu/
Single-Sign-On • LON-CAPA will work with Sentinel Single-Sign-On at MSU • LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at Ohio University
Commercial Business • eduCog, LLC • Founded in 2005 • Provides LON-CAPA hosting and problem coding
Consortium • LON-CAPA Academic Consortium • MSU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign founding members • Consortium document just passed legal review at both institutions • Documents will hopefully be signed this year
Outlook • In-Class use of LON-CAPA • Collaboration with Mazur group at Harvard • “Next Generation Clickers” • Already ported ConcepTest questions
Contact • Project website:http://www.lon-capa.org/ • LON-CAPA@MSU: http://loncapa.msu.edu/ • Gerd Kortemeyer:korte@lon-capa.org