What’s New in LON-CAPA?

Gerd KortemeyerJanuary 2006

What’s New in LON-CAPA?• New functionality

Content assembly Course overview Communication Portfolio Grading Mathematics, Chemistry, and

Computer Science• New@MSU

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

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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

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Content Assembly

Sorted by access count

Content Assembly

• Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF National Science Digital Library

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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

• Versionmanage-ment

Grading

• New grading and review queues for manually graded assignments

• Course staff in different roles working through submitted work

Mathematics

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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

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LON-CAPA@MSU

• LON-CAPA and predecessor systems CAPA and LectureOnline used at MSU since 1992

Users

Courses

Disciplines

Automated Course Generation

• http://loncapa.msu.edu/

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

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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

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Outlook

• In-Class use of LON-CAPA

• Collaboration with Mazur group at Harvard

• “Next Generation Clickers”

• Already ported ConcepTest questions

Contact

• Project website:http://www.lon-capa.org/

• LON-CAPA@MSU: http://loncapa.msu.edu/

• Gerd Kortemeyer:korte@lon-capa.org