[thedump] Teachers' meeting notes
Felicia Berryman
felicia@lon-capa.org
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:17:13 -0500
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Hello Teachers,<br>
<br>
At the teachers meeting last Friday, I gave a quick presentation on the
new features of 2.3. <br>
<ul>
<li><b>Communication blocks can also affect discussion, porfolio,
chat and blogs now</b><br>
If you are giving an online test, you can block all the LON-CAPA
communication features easily. Just go to Main Menu -> COM and
select the option to add a communication block. Make sure to read the
text at the top of the page. Communication blocks student
communication in other classes as well. The student can see which
teacher added the block and tell on you if you overuse this power! :)<br>
</li>
<li><b>Groups</b><br>
Go into a course and at the top of the Inline Menu is a groups link.
This to assign your students into teams or group. After you create a
group, you can set parameters just for a specific group.<br>
</li>
<li><b>Portfolio updates inlcuding search, publishing, and custom
metadata<br>
</b>
<ul>
<li>All students can upload files to their personal portfolio
(Main Menu -> PORT). There are new features to the portfolio in
2.3. <br>
</li>
<li>Students can publish their files publicly and share them with
other students. Instructors can specify the metadata such as keywords
the students have to use to publish their files. <br>
</li>
<li>Students can search other portfolios by going to Main Menu
-> SRCH. <br>
</li>
<li>Use the DOC's dropbox if you want your students to submit a
portfolio file to you for a grade. When you grade them, you can had
the file back to the student with your edits and comments. The student
will then have a record of all versions of the file in the portfolio -
the original graded file, the hand-backed file, and any new versions
they create.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Users can reset password on internal authenticated account if
they have an email address set<br>
</b>On the log-in screen, students can reset a forgotten password
IF they specified an email address in their preferences.<br>
</li>
<li><b>Can have multiple correct answers for a numericalresponse or
formularesponse<br>
</b>See my published, open-source example at
/res/msu/felicia/NewFeatures/multiple_answer.problem. This example
lists other examples.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<b>Other Notes:</b><br>
There was much discussion on expanding thedump into complete courses
that teachers can clone. We also decided that the this year's teacher
training will be the last week in June. Finally, there was talk about
using LON-CAPA for elementary math education. See the
multiple-correct-answer example above. The examples this resource
lists are in Ed Kashy's elementary math library.<br>
<br>
Felicia<br>
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Felicia Berryman
LON-CAPA Support Coordinator
Michigan State University
Phone: (517)432-9866
Technical Support Available at:
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