| -----Original Message-----
| From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
| Of Gary Musham
| Sent: 08 February 2006 16:54
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: Re: [VLES] Tracking of student activity in VLEs and e-learning
| tools
|
| Hi All,
|
| I think what would be more useful would be a system that monitors and
| reports on a students performance regarding interactive assessments
|
| For example:
|
| How many questions the student got right
| Which questions the student got wrong
| What was the average score for the class for each question
I see this more as a function of an assessment tool, indeed tools such as
TOIA already do this.
We are looking more at movements through the system; our use cases include a
tutor wanting to be reassured that the effort in putting material into the
VLE has been worth it because N people visited the resource. Or as 'ammo' to
use against a student who is performing badly, 'You're not doing well
because you are not looking at the electronic resources''
However, thanks for your response, it has been useful because it begins to
help us define the scope of our project!
Thanks
adam
|
|
| This information would also be very useful to monitor question design, if
| a question is misunderstood or cannot be interpreted or a low score across
| the class/group were to result, then this may indicate that the
| task/question is inappropriate.
|
| At the end of the day I believe information/ feedback on a students
| performance related to an assessment is more important than how many times
| a student visits a site.
| The student visited the site 5 times?................what does that tell
| you about their learning?
|
| Gary. Musham
|
| ________________________________
|
| From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Adam Marshall
| Sent: Wed 08/02/2006 13:03
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: [VLES] Tracking of student activity in VLEs and e-learning tools
|
|
|
| We here at Oxfords Uni are just starting a JISC project (TRECX) which will
| deal with tracking activity within e-learning tools (such as VLE's,
| Forums,
| Chat rooms, PDP systems, wikis, assessment systems, repositories) and are
| very interested to know what sort of information tutors (or sysadmins)
| would
| like to see about their students and / or resources (Data Prot issues
| aside!).
|
| The sort of things we are talking about are
|
| - user X visited resource Y at 10:53 on 10/02/2006
| - user X posted message on Forum Y at ........
| - user X entered chat room Y at .....
| - user X posted a message in chat room Y at ......
| - user X read message posted by user Z in forum Y at ......
| - resource A was updated at ......
| - resource A became available at ........
| - resource A was deleted at .......
| - user X created a new PDR (id = 25) at ........
| - user X added to wiki page Y at .......
| - user X took assessment Y at .........
|
| And so on.
|
| We would *really* appreciate any comments / requirements etc for such a
| system. Nothing fancy, a couple of sentences to describe the scenario
| would
| be fine. We will 'publish' any postings in our wiki so please let us know
| if
| you don't want your text used or if you would rather the text did not have
| your name next to it!
|
| The resultant software will be fully open source and available to all - if
| anybody else wants to get involved then let us know.
|
| We will be setting up a project website and wiki over the next week and
| I'll
| try to remember to post the URLs to this list lest anybody wants a snoop.
|
| adam
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