The Virtual Classroom Manager (NPAC Grading System) Ozgur Balsoy Florida State University Department of Computer Science and CSIT (School of Computational Science and Information Technology) 400 Dirac Science Library Tallahassee Florida 32306-4120 11/13/2018
Grading System Distributed-open asynchronous information access environment Multi-tier architecture Modularity and easy integration with other related systems Commodity interface Secure over the network 11/13/2018
Grading System Architecture 11/13/2018
Features Course Information Manager Student Records Assignments & Online Grading Statistics: Averages, Ranks Assessment Tools Categorized survey and quiz preparation User Records Services & Legacy Systems Connections Editable HTML User Interfaces Templates 11/13/2018
Features Security Easy System Administration Communication channel security, SSL User authentication User access lists User privilege levels Presentation security Time-out clocks, randomly generated ids, no caching on users’ side Easy System Administration 11/13/2018
Features Combined with course content used for tracking students’ online study habits and timings 11/13/2018
Administration Menu Student Menu 11/13/2018
Course Manager 11/13/2018
Assessment Tools Question Bank Quiz Generator 11/13/2018
Grading & Survey Results 11/13/2018
Future Work Higher level of integrity with course content such as content management More assessment options Interoperability with other learning management systems, adopting IMS XML specs Content provider for Education portal 11/13/2018
Features compared P Course management BlackBoard Grading Sys Course management P Course communication & collaboration at some level Course content management Assessment tools System management Enterprise database support Security 11/13/2018
References Sen, M., Balsoy, O, Fox, G.C. and McCracken, N.J., “Course Management: A Complete Asynchronous Environment Architecture in Education,” Webnet 99 Abstracts book - p.86, WebNet 99, World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Honolulu, Hawaii Sen M., “Distributed Open Asynchronous Information Environment”, Syracuse PhD Thesis, November 2000. As used at Florida State University https://merlot.csit.fsu.edu:2000 11/13/2018