1. A Course Management System for Math Teachers
IMathAS
A Course Management System for Math Teachers

2. Why a CMS?

3. Infrastructure

4. IMathAS vs. Others

5. From IMathAS.com IMathAS was built on three primary philosophies:
Math: The system was designed for Math assessment; no effort was made for the system to be multi-purpose.
Sharing: The system was setup to encourage sharing of questions within a system and outside. Questions are grouped into question libraries, and are not tied directly to a specific assessment. Unless marked Private, questions can be used by anyone on the system, or used as a template for writing new questions. Assessments and course setups can be copied between users with permission. Export and Import allows the sharing of question sets between systems. Also, macro libraries allow for the expansion of IMathAS's question language. Users with expertise in a field can develop macro extensions, and share them with other users.
Ease of Install: The system uses standard PHP and MySQL. It requires no special compilation options or installation of external programs.

6. math.vlhub.com
What’s This?

7. What can IMathAS do?

8. Enrolling in a course
Course ID: 6
Enrollment Key: Pro-D
Success!

9. Play Time
WAIT!!!!

10. Making a group

11. Group Assignment Teacher or Students choose members
Only one student should add others
Everyone in group gets:
The same form of the question
The same score
I like to give only one attempt…
Because it’s annoying 
This assignment is blocking the next one
Minimum score to unlock = 2/8
Minimum score to receive credit = 80%
Notice that other groups have a different question to work on
Copying != Collaborating

13. Hints/Help Can give progressive hints
Even hints based on response given
Help button available (example in individual assignment)
Can link to file or video
This question gives hints up to 6th attempt

14. Forum Posting
Add Math
Math symbols
Graphs

15. Managing Participation

16. Grading
Forum has a value, scores are cumulative

17. Multipart Questions

18. Question types
Number
Calculated
Multiple-Choice
Multiple-Answer
Matching
Function
String
Essay
Drawing
N-Tuple
Calculated N-Tuple
Complex
Calculated Complex
Numerical Matrix
Calculated Matrix
Interval
Calculated Interval
File Upload
Multipart
Conditional
Many are highlighted for you to try in the group and individual assignment

19. Embedding applets/html5
Conditional Response

20. IMathAS now has built in support for Geogebra
Possible to embed Geogebra applet into a question dynamically
Possible to get the students work from Geogebra for evaluation

21. Play Time
Once you score at least 2 points the individual assignment will appear
Typically I require 80% or higher
We’ll look at some other features in the individual assignment when you unlock yours

22. Individual Assignment

23. Individual Assignment

24. Multiple Attempts Now

25. Conditional

26. Drawing

27. Drawing

28. Full Solutions Help can be a file or a video
Solutions can be as elaborate as you’d like to make them
Questions can be have more than one answer (separate with a comma)

29. Getting at process
Calculator
won’t do this

30. Algebraic forms
Equivalent but
not simplified
(incorrect)
Solution

31. Gradebook Let’s have a look at how everyone’s doing
As a class
Overall
View a single category/unit
Isolate an single assignment
Get an item analysis for an assignment
By Student
Individual progress in a topic/overall
Individual responses/results on a single assignment
Color Coding
Maybe I’ll send off an or report two
Sorting

33. Ready?

34. Adding a course

35. Settings
For now just fill this in and submit (you can pick a different theme if you like – appearance of your site):

36. Success
Teachers can share a course!

37. now that your course is live
Settings… again
You can change any of the settings here
now that your course is live

38. Enrollment
NO!!!
Convenient!

39. Sharing

40. Messaging

41. Links

42. Setting up your Gradebook

44. Help with settings
Most of us grade this way

45. Don’t forget to click update when you’re done

46. Building Your Site
I like to organize things into blocks (like a folder) to keep the site from being cluttered.

49. Adding an Assessment

50. In Depth Help/Options

57. Select your options/margins

58. Adjust the layout…print!

59. Or…

61. Now copy/paste into Word

62. Linked Text Page of Text Web Link File
A page you create in the editor below
Web Link
A hyperlink to another page
See Resources block in example course
File
Upload your own files to the course

65. Time to test
Change order of an item

66. Other items Inline Text Forum Wiki Calendar Added/Moved the same way
Look for the to explain the options

67. Ahh Web2.0…

68. What I like best about IMathAS
Sharing
Everything done in IMathAS can be imported, exported, or copied
Stop reinventing the wheel!

69. Questions can be templated
Thanks David!
Questions can be templated

71. How to copy Collaborate

72. Copying Course Items

76. What Next When your course is finished
Export a copy of the gradebook to your
Unenrol your students
Get a fresh copy of the course again
Wikis and graded forum posts stay
You can also shift the dates forward on everything:

77. Official Documentation/Tutorials
IMathAS Tutorials
Automatically enrolled when you sign up as an instructor
This is a place where
we can help each other learn to use IMathAS
improve IMathAS
collaborate on courses

78. Contact Info
Web:
mrjoyce.wordpress.com
math.vlhub.com
YouTube: JHMathDept