What’s New in LON-CAPA? Gerd Kortemeyer January 2006

What’s New in LON-CAPA? New functionality  Content assembly  Course overview  Communication  Portfolio  Grading  Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science  Users, courses, and disciplines  Automated course generation  Automated enrollment  Single-sign-on New organizational structures  Commercial business  Consortium Outlook  Next Generation Clickers

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

Content Assembly

Course Overview

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 Version manage- ment

Grading New grading and review queues for manually graded assignments Course staff in different roles working through submitted work

Mathematics \[4y^2+\sqrt{\frac{2x^2+3x+4}{1-x^2}}\]

Chemistry

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 and predecessor systems CAPA and LectureOnline used at MSU since 1992

Users

Courses

Disciplines

Automated Course Generation

Automated Enrollment

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

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