Tech Updates
Tutorial Revisions
Happy
new year and welcome back to BAIP! I
hope the end of 2008 and the start of 2009 have treated you well. As you jump back into BAIP you will soon
discover that changes have been made to both the structure of BAIP tutorials, and
how students and teachers view grades for these newly structured tutorials.
1. Tutorial
Structure Revisions
A, New Question Retries
Retries have been added to all BAIP tutorial questions. Now, when a student answers a tutorial
question incorrectly, instead of being sent to the final remediation screen for
that question, students are asked to retry the question one additional time.
Fig 1a. First Try At Question
Initially, tutorial questions
will work just as they have in the past. Once an option is chosen, the “Submit Answer” button will
appear and the “Next” button will become active. At this point the student can click either
to proceed.
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Fig 1b. Incorrect Answer On First Try
If a student’s response is
correct, final question remediation is given and the user continues on with
the tutorial. If, on the other hand,
the student’s first response is incorrect, a student will now use
either the “Try Again” button or the “Back” button to
try the same question a second time.
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Fig 1c. Second Try At Question
The student now attempts the
question a second time. Their initial
response is grayed out and the word “Retry” appears on both the
top of the question and in the mustard colored navigation bar so the student understands
that are retrying the same question and not attempting a new question.
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Fig 1d. Final Question Remediation
On the submission of the second
try, regardless of whether the student response is correct or incorrect, the
student is taken to the final remediation screen for the current
question. A green “Done”
and “Correct” will appear at the top of the page for correct
responses and a red “Done” and “Incorrect” will
appear for incorrect responses. This
question is now closed. Students
cannot change their answers to this question for the rest of the tutorial
session.
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B, New Motivation Questions
Students will now also encounter 2 sets of motivation questions when
they take a tutorial: one set at the midway point and at other at the end of
the tutorial. At the top of every
tutorial page there is a mustard colored navigation bar with numbered boxes telling
the student where they are in the tutorial. 2 additional boxes with smiley faces will now appear in this row of numbered
Fig 2b shows a motivation page when a student first arrives on the page. Only after a student answers both motivation
questions will a “Submit Answer” button appear allowing the student
to continue (as indicated by the black arrow in Fig. 2b).
Fig 2a. Motivation Question (Without Selections) |
Fig 2b. Motivation Question (With Selections) |
Once a set of motivation questions has been submitted,
selections cannot be changed. During a
tutorial session a student can go back to a motivation page to see what they’ve
selected, but they won’t be able to make changes. Additionally, students are only asked
motivation questions on the first attempt of a tutorial. Motivation questions will not appear in any repeat
2. Tutorial Scoring
Revisions
With the addition of question retries, students now have 2 scores
for each tutorial: their scores with and without retries. Students will be shown a score for each upon completion of a tutorial.
Fig 3.Tutorial Scoring |
So which score shows up in a teacher’s gradebook? That’s
for the teacher to decide. New settings
have been added to the teacher gradebook which will
easily allow teachers to view gradebooks with or
There are some other notable changes that have been made to the teacher gradebook but we’ll save that discussion for next
month!
Thanks for using BAIP this year and thanks for helping us make BAIP
better. As always, please feel free to contact me with your questions and
comments.
Dan Spurgin
BAIP Technical Assistance
spurgin@ku.edu
785-864-1039
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