Educational portal and its integration with AHyCo LMS

1. Educational portal and its integration with AHyCo LMS Nataša Hoić–Božić natasa.hoic@ri.t-com.hr University of Rijeka (Croatia)

2. Agenda • AHyCo Learning Management System (LMS) • AHyCo portal • Main characteristics and future plans 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

3. LMS & portal • AHyCo = Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware • AHyCo LMS - adaptive hypermedia learning management system • Educational portal integrated with LMS: AHyCo.ffri.hr • Development since 2000 within several projects: • “A system for automated student testing and surveying” (2000-2001) • "Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware" (2002-2003) • "Teaching methods of information science online“ (2004-2005) • “Computing support to education” (2002-) 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

4. AHyCo LMS - tools • Content authoring • Delivering learning content • Student assessment • Collaboration support and communication • Class management and other tools 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

5. 1. Content authoring Authoring environment - Microsoft Access forms as an interface for authors 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

6. 2. Delivering learning content – AHyCo learning environment • Authorization • Selecting course or subject for learning • Course  Module  Lesson • Generating the web page containing the lesson according to: • student model • adaptation rules • Adaptive navigational support 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

7. Learning environment Suggestions for further learning Lesson User tools The page with the content of a lesson 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

8. 3. Student Assessment • Students’ self-evaluation • Grading the students • Adaptive navigational support • Types: • online tests and self-evaluation quizzes with multiple-choice questions • online tests with problem questions: • essay-type assignments (seminar papers) – grading by person (teacher) • programming assignments – automatic grading 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

9. Multiple-choice question 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

10. Essay-type and programming assignments 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

11. Automated grading of programming assignments • Support for several programming languages (C, C++, C#) • Possible extension to other languages (with external compilers) • Arbitrary test input sets • Random test data generation • Detection of problematic code sections 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

12. Programming assignment’s results 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

13. 4. Collaboration support and communication in AHyCo • Asynchronous communication using forum • Adaptive group formation • File sharing module • Group to group grading and evaluation 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

14. Multi threaded discussion forum public or private discussions between the members of one group Learning "anyplace and anytime“ Asynchronous CMC in AHyCo 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

15. Adaptive group formation • Dividing students into groups depending on their learning success • Other group forming parameters: • Participation in forum • Grades from previous courses • Group's size • Student's personal data • Teacher's preferences 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

16. Adaptive group formation 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

17. File sharing module File sharing between group members 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

18. Group grading and evaluation • Interface with the given set of criteria: 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

19. 5. Class management and other tools • Student administration and progress tracking • Advanced summary exam statistics • Optical mark recognition • Student surveying 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

20. Future plans - LMS • Further development of the subsystem for group work and CMC: • Internal messaging system • Synchronous whiteboard and chat • Smart card integration with digital signatures • Scanning and annotation of written exams • m-learning support: “Mobile AHyCo” 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

21. AHyCo educational portal • Maingoal to inform and educate in the field of: • applying ICT in education • enhancement of classical and online teaching through new methods and approaches • Integratedwith AHyCo LMS • Registeredusers - easy access to relevant courses and discussions 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

22. AHyCo users • Students & Teachers • Studying or teaching (moderating) their courses • Discussing topics relevant to their courses • Guests - everyone interested in e-learning issues • Access to majority of content • Attending trial course • Discussing – public forum discussion 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

23. AHyCo portal Web interface 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

24. AHyCo educational portalcontent • Articles are categorized into fields of interest: • E-learning • Learning and Teaching • Adaptive Hypermedia • Computer science teaching methodology • On AHyCo LMS • Other 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria

25. Future plans - portal • Adding content for registered users only • Developing dedicated areas with articles and discussions for teachers only • Forming a community of on-line lecturers, for sharing experiences and suggestions 6th Workshop "SE Education and Reverse Engineering", Bulgaria