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The following is a compilation from the CCFIT CMS Report. We will need to track progress on the groups' concerns at the time as well as their recommendations re: current tools and potential additional features.
link aliasCCFIT CMS Report Highlights
Specific Requirements
The new course management tool system must, at a minimum supply what is currently available on MyUCDavis
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Primary Function: distribute course materials (documents, announcements, urls, etc.) to students and others.
CCFIT CMS Report Highlights#anchor Usage Winter Quarter 2005:
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Evaluation:
Strengths: Very full featured, very flexible, very appreciated by students
Weaknesses: Joining class sections should not be an all-or-nothing choice; should be able to view sections as joined and unjoined. Digital drop-box should allow for downloading all student assignments at once, and should allow for uploading comments back to students. It is not easy to track attendance with this tool.
#anchor Requirements for new system:
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*Evaluation:8
Strengths: Allows student-to-student communication, automatically generates transcript of sessions, listserv is very effective way to communicate to all enrolled students
Weaknesses: limited interface, inability to create sub-groups within a class, low effective use of bulletin boards and chat rooms
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Requirements for new system:
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- 242 Instructors have created items (cumulative use, through Winter 2005)
- 5,935 Multiple Choice questions
- 1,007 Paragraph questions
- 8,259 students have taken 62,370 online quizzes.
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Evaluation:
Strengths: Item database allows creation of both online quizzes and paper exams. Detailed item statistics and analysis. Faculty can 'share' quizzes and items.
Weakness: limited to 35 users at one time. Item feedback automatically shows the student the feedback for all the answers; an instructor should be able to just release the feedback for the selected answer. Unable to edit or delete quizzes or items once a student has taken them. As the items are individual specific, not course specific, this results in a large build-up of useless items that cannot be purged. No ability to 'reset' a student's quiz attempt. Feedback indicates that gains in adopting this tool are greatly offset by the difficulties of using it.
All tools suffered because of bandwidth limitations - the slow speed that these sites are served at is a serious impediment to the process of learning how to use these tools.
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