1. Learning by DeLC education portal One year experience Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria Ohrid, 25.08.2011

2. Custom DeLC Features O Custom functionality after the 1 st year O Evolved Exam System O Event driven reminder system O Student book O Lecturer book O Resource Library O Own SCORM Engine (development in progress) Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova2

3. DeLC Subsytems Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova3 DeLC Exams Engine Reminders Engine Agent- oriented Assessment SCORM Engine Presented the last year Separate talk by Vladimir Under development Covered by prof. Stoyanov in separate talk

4. Current Stats O Current stats for the exams digital library: O Student accounts: 127 Questions319 Tests/Exams13 Subjects10 Generated Tests/Exams360 Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova4

5. Creating a test Template 1 Q1Q1 Q2Q2 Q3Q3 Q4Q4 Q5Q5 Qn Different types of questions T2T2 T3T3 Tn T1T1 Test DeLC Server Lecturer Library with questions and templates 1. Create questions 2. Create templates 3. Create test The template dynamically selects a set of questions, based on criteria set by the lecturer The test consists of a set of questions and set of templates Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova5

6. Result Variant X Result Student n+2Student n+1 Carrying out an exam Student 1Student 2Student 3Student 4Student n Lecturer DeLC Server Test Variant 1 Variant 4 The time counting is personal per student Variant 3Variant n If there are open questions the student will be able to see his/her rating after the evaluation of these questions. System for automatic assessment of open questions Test 2 It is possible to carry out different exams in the same time. Result Variant 2 Variant n+1 Optimizing the time for the whole exam – the free working places can be used immediately by another students. Another possibility – the lecturer make assessment of the open questions. Currently a system for automatic assessment is developing (agent oriented). When the student complete its exam and if there are no open questions he/she receive immediately his/her result. For each student a different test is generated, based on the templates included in the test. Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova6

7. Resource Library O Contains set of resources: O documents O images O Archives O … O Hierarchical organization O Strong and detailed access control: O by user, group, role O per branch or individual resource O Possibility for the students to upload resources Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova7

8. Resource Library Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova8

9. User Profiles and Personalization O The problems: O Big amount of user profiles to maintain O Some kind of fraud protection O The solution: O Use an secure LDAP server and the ability of the portal framework for automatic profile creation Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova9

10. User Profiles and Personalization An information system supported by the university staff A web based system for user account management Daily synchronization for the existing student accounts LDAP synchronization - at most 5 seconds after change in Focus DB DeLC uses Focus LDAP to get user credentials along with its role and groups (at each login) Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova10

11. Final thoughts O About the students: O They likes: O the ability to see their exam assessment online ASAP O the impossibility anybody else to see their assessment O the easy way for sharing materials trough the resource library O They are trying to cheat during the exams. O About the lecturers: O They likes: O the dynamic nature of the tests O the flexible way for fine tuning the exams assessment O the resource library O … Ohrid, 25.8.2011 г. Learning by DeLC education portal, Emil Doychev, Vesselina Valkanova11