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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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| 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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| 5920 | bpr | 8 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 9 | The wims system organizes user registration into classes. A class can be |
| 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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| 9071 | bpr | 18 | </li><li> |
| 19 | The creator (supervisor) of the class protects the class with a password |
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| 32 | reyssat | 20 | which he keeps secret. So the supervisor is the only person who can register |
| 21 | people to the class. |
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| 9071 | bpr | 22 | </li><li> |
| 23 | The supervisor of the class protects the class with a password, and |
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| 32 | reyssat | 24 | communicate the password to his students. People knowing the password can |
| 25 | register to the class by themselves. |
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| 9071 | bpr | 26 | </li></ul><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 27 | After the creation of the class, the supervisor can pick up works and assign |
| 28 | them to participants. A work item can be any module in the wims server: |
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| 29 | course, exercise, tool, game. To do so, the supervisor has only to call the |
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| 9071 | bpr | 30 | corresponding module. The latter will contain a link (which only appears for |
| 32 | reyssat | 31 | supervisor logins) allowing him to insert the module into a work sheet of |
| 32 | the class. |
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| 5920 | bpr | 33 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 34 | Assigned works of the class are grouped into work sheets. A work sheet is |
| 35 | created by the supervisor, and may contain a certain number of work items. |
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| 36 | Once the preparation of a work sheet is finished, the supervisor activates it. |
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| 37 | This work sheet will then appear in the participants' home page of the class, |
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| 38 | allowing them to work on the assigned works. |
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| 5920 | bpr | 39 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 40 | When a participant finishes an assigned exercise with success (partial or |
| 9071 | bpr | 41 | total), he will get some points. These points are gathered and analysed |
| 32 | reyssat | 42 | by the wims software, and the result of the analysis is accessible (in real |
| 43 | time) both to the participant and to the supervisor. |
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| 5920 | bpr | 44 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 45 | When assigning works, the supervisor can decide on the number of points each |
| 46 | participant should obtain on the exercise (hence the number of times he should |
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| 47 | repeat it), and the weight of the points in the statistics. |
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| 5920 | bpr | 48 | </p><p> |
| 9071 | bpr | 49 | The analysis of the results is for the time being very rudimentary in the |
| 32 | reyssat | 50 | current version of wims, and will be enhanced in the future. |
| 5920 | bpr | 51 | </p><p> |
| 32 | reyssat | 52 | The system also allows the supervisor to distribute messages to |
| 53 | participants, and each participant to write to the supervisor. Planned for |
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| 9071 | bpr | 54 | the future, forums for live discussions within a class will also be |
| 32 | reyssat | 55 | available. |
| 5920 | bpr | 56 | </p> |