1. The Virtual Classroom Manager (NPAC Grading System)
Ozgur Balsoy
Florida State University
Department of Computer Science and
CSIT (School of Computational Science and Information Technology)
400 Dirac Science Library
Tallahassee
Florida
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2. Grading System
Distributed-open asynchronous information access environment
Multi-tier architecture
Modularity and easy integration with other related systems
Commodity interface
Secure over the network
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3. Grading System Architecture
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4. Features Course Information Manager Student Records
Assignments & Online Grading
Statistics: Averages, Ranks
Assessment Tools
Categorized survey and quiz preparation
User Records
Services & Legacy Systems Connections
Editable HTML User Interfaces
Templates
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5. Features Security Easy System Administration
Communication channel security, SSL
User authentication
User access lists
User privilege levels
Presentation security
Time-out clocks, randomly generated ids, no caching on users’ side
Easy System Administration
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6. Features
Combined with course content used for tracking students’ online study habits and timings
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7. Administration Menu Student Menu
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8. Course Manager
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9. Assessment Tools
Question Bank
Quiz Generator
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10. Grading &
Survey Results
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11. Future Work
Higher level of integrity with course content such as content management
More assessment options
Interoperability with other learning management systems, adopting IMS XML specs
Content provider for Education portal
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12. Features compared P Course management
BlackBoard Grading Sys
Course management P
Course communication & collaboration
at some level
Course content management
Assessment tools
System management
Enterprise database support
Security
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13. References
Sen, M., Balsoy, O, Fox, G.C. and McCracken, N.J., “Course Management: A Complete Asynchronous Environment Architecture in Education,” Webnet 99 Abstracts book - p.86, WebNet 99, World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Honolulu, Hawaii
Sen M., “Distributed Open Asynchronous Information Environment”, Syracuse PhD Thesis, November 2000.
As used at Florida State University
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