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| 2 | A wims site allows two types of connections: connections as anonymous visitor, |
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| 3 | or connections as registered user. |
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| 4 | <p> |
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| 5 | The connection as registered user makes it possible to exploit one of the |
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| 6 | basic features of a WIMS system: student-teacher interaction and analysis of |
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| 7 | progress. |
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| 8 | <p> |
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| 9 | The wims system organizes user registration into classes. A class can be |
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| 10 | created in the server by a teacher ( |
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| 11 | !href module=adm/class/regclass click here |
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| 12 | to create a class), who becomes afterwards the supervisor of the WIMS class. |
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| 13 | Students can then register to the class as participants. Registration of |
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| 14 | participants can be done in several ways: <ul> |
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| 15 | <li>The creator (supervisor) of the class declares the class `world open', |
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| 16 | allowing anybody to registrate as participant. This mode is not advisable |
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| 17 | because the supervisor looses control to its class. |
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| 18 | <li>The creator (supervisor) of the class protects the class with a password |
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| 19 | which he keeps secret. So the supervisor is the only person who can register |
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| 20 | people to the class. |
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| 21 | <li>The supervisor of the class protects the class with a password, and |
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| 22 | communicate the password to his students. People knowing the password can |
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| 23 | register to the class by themselves. |
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| 24 | </ul> <p> |
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| 25 | After the creation of the class, the supervisor can pick up works and assign |
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| 26 | them to participants. A work item can be any module in the wims server: |
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| 27 | course, exercise, tool, game. To do so, the supervisor has only to call the |
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| 28 | corresponding module. The latter will contain a link (which only appears for |
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| 29 | supervisor logins) allowing him to insert the module into a work sheet of |
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| 30 | the class. |
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| 31 | <p> |
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| 32 | Assigned works of the class are grouped into work sheets. A work sheet is |
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| 33 | created by the supervisor, and may contain a certain number of work items. |
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| 34 | Once the preparation of a work sheet is finished, the supervisor activates it. |
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| 35 | This work sheet will then appear in the participants' home page of the class, |
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| 36 | allowing them to work on the assigned works. |
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| 37 | <p> |
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| 38 | When a participant finishes an assigned exercise with success (partial or |
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| 39 | total), he will get some points. These points are gathered and analysed |
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| 40 | by the wims software, and the result of the analysis is accessible (in real |
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| 41 | time) both to the participant and to the supervisor. |
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| 42 | <p> |
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| 43 | When assigning works, the supervisor can decide on the number of points each |
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| 44 | participant should obtain on the exercise (hence the number of times he should |
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| 45 | repeat it), and the weight of the points in the statistics. |
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| 46 | <p> |
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| 47 | The analysis of the results is for the time being very rudimentary in the |
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| 48 | current version of wims, and will be enhanced in the future. |
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| 49 | <p> |
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| 50 | The system also allows the supervisor to distribute messages to |
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| 51 | participants, and each participant to write to the supervisor. Planned for |
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| 52 | the future, forums for live discussions within a class will also be |
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| 53 | available. |
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