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A virtual class is a space where students can work under the guidance of a

supervisor (teacher). All the activities of a virtual class, either for supervisor

or for participants, are carried out on the users' web browser, via

connections to the WIMS site.

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When a virtual class is

!href module=$module&chapter=$chapter&open=$open,$(chapter)_creat#creat created

 by the teacher who then becomes the supervisor of it,

students can register into the class as participants. The supervisor assigns

works for the students, organized in worksheets.

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When putting work items (exercises) into worksheets, the supervisor also

determines the number of points each student should gather on the item.

Each time a student (totally or partially) successes in solving an exercises,

he/she is attributed a certain number of points (from 0 to 10)

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!href module=$module&chapter=1&open=$open,1_exo#exo detail

</small> for this success. This number of points is registered by the server,

and the supervisor can consult the achievements of each student, either

globally or individually, as a whole or exercise by exercise.

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When connected into the class as the supervisor, teacher can also

!href module=$module&chapter=4&open=$open,4_oef#oef create

 his/her own specific interactive exercises and then insert into worksheets.

These exercises automatically take advantage of the standard features of

WIMS: random pickup of exercises and/or parameters, registered scores, etc.

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Each virtual class also contains a message board allowing supervisor and

students to exchange views in different ways. Messages may contain

mathematical formulas in a very convenient way, and readers will see the

formulas automatically formatted.

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Planned for the future:

test sheets with sophisticated random exercise generation and work time

limitation will also be available. Software to analyze student performance

based on registered data on his/her work is under study.

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