1. Student response to Ma123 as reported in the student paper

6. Primary Student Interface: Instructor’s Web Page 4 syllabus 4 links to html text 4 links to chat system and FAQ systems 4 links to “WQS” system for course materials (e.g. homework, review materials, video lectures, etc)

7. Student Interface: Instructor’s Web Page (part 1) System tutorial Course syllabus Visual class rolls Exam schedule

8. Class Roll:

9. Instructor’s Web Page (part 2) Link to wqs system server Student emails from homework system with responses Links to lecture notes for video lectures

10. Responses to Student Questions: Page references particular assignment Student query Instructor response

11. Instructor Web Page (part 3) Link to online text Link to wqs system Links to lecture slides for video lectures by chapter

12. WQS System: current login screen Students select video lectures menu or their class homework menu Group logins and work are encouraged

13. Typical Section Menu Chapter 1 homework Review for test II

14. Homework Page: Current Format Problem and answers System response Email window Student answer System answer

15. Most students print the problem sets out and record their solutions or solutions from class directly on the printouts

16. Video Lectures Menu Lecture Slides (html) Video of lecture segment (10-30 min)

18. How students watch the videos

19. Test Review with video solutions Problem statement with diagram Link to video solution Maple worksheet With links exported to html

20. Data Logs 4 Every student action is logged with time stamp 4 All activity credited to each member on group login 4 Total number of answers submitted (right or wrong) correlates very well with performance on tests

21. Log Data

22. WQS Video 4 Materials prepared by faculty 4 lectures by faculty and graduate students 4 tapes converted to ASF and edited by grad students and staff 4 separate video and homework (original system) 4 text/homework/video merged in next edition

23. Graduate Student Editing Video Files

24. WQS and Video Lecture Materials Preparation 4 Materials developed by faculty using a variety of standard tools (e.g. Maple, LaTeX, Perl). 4 Individual item described by a file called “data” in directory specific to item. It describes how construct the item. 4 locations placed in control file called wqs- dirs which is known to server and describes the section menu page

25. Faculty Preparing Materials coffee food CD burner and blanks

26. WQS CDs 4 Natural corollary of HTML format –easily made at faculty desk, cheap –Students copy in lab on their own blank (15 min, $1) 4 Originated through necessity 4 Strongly favored by upper-level students who tend to live off-campus 4 Not used much by lower level students who tend to live on campus

27. Maple Source: Homework Problem Question Tag:( Q_ ) “SKIP” Tags Answer Tags: ( A_ ) Correct Answer Tag Code for Figure (section)

28. SAMPLE WQS TAGS 4 Q_ Question starts and runs to next tag 4 T_ Text starts and runs to next tag 4 A_ Answer choice for current question 4 A_ANS Correct answer for current question 4 SKIP Omit from here to next tag

29. To create and “post” a simple wqs homework set: 4 Source document is exported to html from Maple menu 4 exported html document is processed by a Perl script to: – create a “data” file which describes the final document to the server –place an entry in a control file which describes the menu

30. The “data” file which describes the final document These correspond to tags in source document These correspond to segments of html in exported document which were delimited by the tags

31. Sharing Materials: Paul’s control file Paul made homework set number 7 Ken made homework set number 8

32. Sharing: 4 Instructor A can use instructor B’s entire menu simply by copying B’s control file (with permission) 4 Instructor A can use any item in instructor B’s menu simply by copying the corresponding entry from B’s control file (with permission) 4 In either case student email from A’s students will be routed to A and activity logged for A

33. B’s Files control materials homeworklecture wqs ma123 Wqs system Student login To B’s class 1 2 3 4 5 Student login To A’s class B’s Files wqs ma123 control 1 2 3 5 LOAD SHARING

34. Sharing: Laura’s Ma123 Control File and class menu

35. Sharing: Laura and Jody Do Ma123 Lectures

36. Sharing: Control File for Joe Mahoney’s Paducah, KY Section of Ma322 Carl Eberhart created the homework for the Ma322 sections

37. Joe Mahoney and Avinash Sathaye did Videos for MA322

38. Unified Format: LaTeX math formatting Video link

39. Web homework is part of text in unified format