Transcript Grading System - Indiana University

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
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Florida 32306-4120
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Grading System
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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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Grading System Architecture
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Features
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Course Information Manager
Student Records
Assignments & Online Grading
Statistics: Averages, Ranks
Assessment Tools
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Categorized survey and quiz preparation
User Records
Services & Legacy Systems Connections
Editable HTML User Interfaces
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Templates
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Features
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Security
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Communication channel security, SSL
User authentication
User access lists
User privilege levels
Presentation security
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Time-out clocks, randomly generated ids, no
caching on users’ side
Easy System Administration
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Features
Combined with course content used for
tracking students’ online study habits
and timings
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Administration Menu
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Student Menu
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Course Manager
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Assessment Tools
• Question Bank
• Quiz Generator
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Grading &
Survey Results
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Future Work
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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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Features compared
BlackBoard
Course management
Course communication & collaboration
Course content management
Assessment tools
System management
Enterprise database support
Security
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Grading Sys
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References
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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
https://merlot.csit.fsu.edu:2000
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