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Project: Assignment
Management System
to just have a printed list of all learners and their
grades to be published in the announcement board
or delivered as an email. 'My grades' tool gives
instructors the option to do that with an export
tool that saves a list of grades as a spreadsheet.
Instructors can get statistics for each group or
course regarding their grades assigned to learners
enrolled in the specific class or course. Statistical
data is separated to grades per course and grades
per group. This way, an instructor can have a
general picture of how a class is doing and the
suitability of a certain course.
Another method used for assessing a learner's per-
formance is the project assignment service. This is
a very common method used in many educational
institutions. Learners are involved in a search and
learn procedure guided by their instructor. At the
end of the day they present a document with their
findings. Diplek supports this assessment method
with the use of the project management service.
This service can be used for the creation, delivery
and evaluation of an assignment.
Instructors can create or import projects
through a user friendly wizard, where they are
asked to insert the guidelines, instructions to
learners, relevant files and deadline. After that,
they can assign the selected projects to groups
or individuals. Learners are notified for the new
assignment by either the teaching or the virtual as-
sistant service. When the project finishes, learners
deliver it to the instructor by using the platform
delivery tool. Instructors evaluate the project
and mark it as checked. All checked projects are
available to both the learner and the instructor
with added comments and corrections.
ADJUSTING WORKSPACE
TO LEARNERS' NEEDS
Diplek has a dynamically formed workspace.
This means that the workspace can be adjusted
to fit learners and courses needs. The learners'
workspace includes menus, toolbars and the main
screen. The main screen is covered by the active
presentation which is course dependant. This
means that user's active workspace is formed
according to the instructor's specifications and
course planning. Menus and toolbars can be
adjusted by the instructor so that they match the
course context.
Instructors can adjust what their learners can
access during their session. These adjustments
include restricting the services offered by user
tools, educational tools, communication tools
and quick access toolbars icons. Access to these
services, when restricted by the instructor, is not
permitted in any way including mouse, keyboard
or shortcut keys.
By restricting access to certain services,
we make sure that the structure of a course is
maintained. For example it would not make any
sense in a theoretical course to use a calculator
or when testing learners to have the instant com-
munication service activated. By customizing a
learner's workspace we make sure that simplicity
is maintained. All these settings can be made by
Grading System
Even though, grading learner's work is not an
evaluation method, it is a part of the whole evalu-
ation subsystem of Diplek. Instructors should be
able to manage, update and view their learners'
grades. This is a process supported by Diplek with
the use of a grading service. Instructors can choose
to share all grades or specific grades with learners
in the Grade topic. Learner evaluation is facilitated
by easy access to the thread work, journal work,
exams and online activity of each learner.
'My Grades' tool provides the instructor with
a list of all learners attending a course where he
or she can assign a grade to each one of them.
Learners have access to their grades and can see
them as a list. Sometimes it is more convenient
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