Hi
From chemweb@ic.ac.uk Thu Dec 21 13:15:40 1995 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 13:24:29 GMT Originator: chemweb@ic.ac.uk From: "Stuart J. Fairall" <sfairall@dmu.ac.uk> To: Multiple recipients of list <chemweb@ic.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Delivering Chemistry Tutorials using the Web X-Listserver-Version: 6.0 -- UNIX ListServer by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Chemistry Webmasters Discussion list
For the past year, our Educational Technology Service have been developing a system to deliver multiple-choice tutorial questions using the web. It's based on an HTML-compatible language called TML (Tutorial Markup Language), and allows several different question types, with automatic logging of the student's score, etc.
Very impressed with the scope TML allows. Its structured format would allow easy generation of source, all be it with a fair amount of typing. Thanks ;-) We are working on specification of a '<DEFAULTS>' tag for answers and scoring.
But would its primary role be to assess or to instruct. ie. should wrong answers yield an informative response. If the Each possible answer may have its own response message - see the <RESPONSES> tag. A typical use of this from our Obs & Gyn department is to point to the web resource containing the correct answer, and give a line of description informing the student why the answer choosen was incorrect.
instructional element is missing then its appeal to users would be low and probably only for required testing. If an instructional role is expected then I think users will be put of by the thought of logged scoring. Logged scoring will be an option in future. The system may already be used in an anonymous fashion by automatically generating a new random UID for each session.
Password access would also greatly reduce the number of users and really might well restrict it to the realms of LAN based CAL packages.
We have a password administration program for the CERN web server which will allow a very flexible setup. As already mentioned, you can use it in a non-password anonymous mode.
I've just written an example tutorial in TML using Chemistry-based questions and it's now on-line on our ETS server at:
http://www.ets.bris.ac.uk/ets/resource/tutorial/tutorial.htm
A nice demonstration. Even though the original demo illustrated the styles available having, the material in context shows the potential more. I didnt realise toluene would nitrate in the meta position. ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)
If you have any more questions/suggestions/comments, please feel free to mail me ( I am the author of the system... ;-) ) BTW, if anyone authors a tutorial, please let me know so I can start to build a links page to all the ones out there ;-) Joel ---- Joel.Crisp@bris.ac.uk | ets-webmaster@bris.ac.uk Joel Crisp, Software Engineer, Educational Technology Service, University of Bristol, UK ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)