Adaptive Learning Class Assistant ALCA

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Adaptive Learning Class Assistant (ALCA)

• CS551 Proposal
• The Zombies Group
• Dhananjay Indurkar
• Jingyuan Zhang
• Joshua Eastep
• Gaye Hattem
• Nan Zhang
• Wei Shao
• Tian Li

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What is It?

• An adaptive web-based
• application that can be
• used with any course

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What Will It Do?

• Modular user-configurable system
• Generate adaptive quizzes tests
• Provides score tracking
• Reports to provide feedback to instructors
• Customized tutorials based on quiz scores

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Feature Overview User Profiles

• All users will have a personal login and profile
• Customizable features to provide flexibility to
  users
• Two types of profiles
• Teacher profile allows configuration of testing,
  grading and reporting features
• Student profile allows limited configuration of
  appearance reporting features

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Feature Overview Quizzing/Testing

• Adaptive Quizzing/Testing
• Test questions ranked by difficulty
• Questions increase or decrease in difficulty
• Questions can have a variety of formats
• Additional abilities can be added later
• Traditional Quizzing/Testing
• Specific set of questions selected by the teacher

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Feature Overview Tutorials

• Adaptive Tutorials
• Configured and categorized by teacher
• Generated from test results
• Customized help for students problem areas
• Traditional Tutorial
• Static help for a particular topic

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Feature Overview Grade Book

• Possible features
• Track quiz scores
• Track other grades such as off-line assignments
• Configuration of
• Different grading mechanisms
• Type of grades that are viewable by students

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Feature Overview Reporting

• Teacher
• Report of potential problem areas for students
• Grade Reporting for online quizzes/tests
• Student
• View their quiz/test grades
• View class ranking

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Advantages of the Adaptive On-line Learning
Facilitator

• Adaptive quizzes tests provide better feedback
  about a students abilities
• Greater reporting mechanisms allow instructors to
  tailor their lessons more accurately to their
  students needs
• Time Saver! Customized tutorials help students
  focus their study time more effectively

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Final Note

• Will test our application on real clients
• Brian Hare (CS101)
• Mark Hieber (CS201)