Topic outline

  • General

  • How to follow webinars in this course


    • How to follow webinars in this course (webinar) SCORM package

      This course is made up of  (not so) many units. Each of these units contains a webinar. Each webinar must be completed to get the final certificate. To complete a webinar we have to do actions required by the webinar, mainly  clicking and typing. You have a couple of attempt for each action. If both goes wrong you fail that action. You can fail up to 20% of all actions in each webinar. It is quite difficult not to pass a webinar at the first try but, if this happens, you must redo the webinar from the very beginning.  Furthermore, actually clicking and typing  is neither interesting nor profitable. You are supposed to try the actions you see in the webinar in a parallel, real, environment on your computer. So, if you cannot understand how to follow a webinar, after following this webinar, you will be able to follow a webinar.

  • Use JMAP test banks in Moodle

    • Use JMAP test banks in Moodle (webinar) SCORM package

      JMAP offers a collection of 8480  tests from Math high school exams in years between 1890 and 2021. They are available in electronic format and with little effort they can be used in Moodle for self evaluation. If you do not know this collection your first reaction would be "why I did not know this before". So instead of re-inventing the wheel in this webinar we will show how to bring a test bank into Moodle and ask students to work with it. Furthermore the test shows in English but is transparent to Google Translate and therefore can be proposed to virtually any student in the world.  Tests are often multiple choice  and often they have  RANDOMIZED values.  Randomized tests must be avoided for class practice because each student will have a different quiz to solve. Alternative to this database are the Valin database using Geogebra, the test written in STACK and the WeBWorK database. The main problems are: tests in Geogebra do not translate, STACK require a server with gcc and WeBWorK runs on its own server and can only be connected to Moodle.

      To import JMAP tests into Moodle you have to start from Examview format and using ExamView convert it into Blackboard 7.0 format. Before doing this in ExamView you might turn some quiz to Multiple Choice with Question>Toggle Bimodal>All Short Answer to Multiple Choice.

      Changing the question type may resolve errors in importing.  For instance Numeric Values question is not imported while the same question turned to Short Answer is imported. Still they cannot be assessed automatically

  • StreamYard and multiple monitors

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                  • Conclusions


                    • Conclusions (webinar with links to sample solutions) SCORM package

                      By  the end of this course you must have a USB key with PortableApps installed on it.  Then there must a web space lended by Altervista at some blahblah.altervista.org. Installed onto  this web space there must be a Moodle server at blahblah.altervista.org/moodle and  a Nextcloud server at blahblah.altervista.org/nextcloud.

                      Using such a structure you must be able to pick a pen at some IWB, draw your lecture notes, and have them delivered to students logging into Moodle. This transfer must be hassle free for the teacher.

                      Obviously there is more than that both in Moodle and Nextcloud. However we were focused in supporting the usual teaching style reaching  high availability added by clouds and e-learning tools.