1. What’s New in LON-CAPA? Gerd Kortemeyer January 2006

2. What’s New in LON-CAPA? New functionality  Content assembly  Course overview  Communication  Portfolio  Grading  Mathematics, Chemistry, and Computer Science New@MSU  Users, courses, and disciplines  Automated course generation  Automated enrollment  Single-sign-on New organizational structures  Commercial business  Consortium Outlook  Next Generation Clickers

3. Content Assembly Cross-institutional network 41 colleges and universities 31 middle and high schools

4. Content Assembly Total holdings (Fall 2005): 148,483 resources  Content pages: 38,308  Problems: 52,592  Images: 49,340  Content assemblies: 6,643  Animations: 700  Movies: 500  Simulations: 400

5. Content Assembly Sorted by access count

6. Content Assembly Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF National Science Digital Library

7. Content Assembly Recognizes file dependencies when uploading files from your local computer

8. Content Assembly

9. Course Overview

10. Communication Tighter coupling between messages and course Messages tied to resource and course

11. Communication We always had

12. Communication Now included direct jumps to take action in response to messages

13. Portfolio Every user has portfolio space

14. Portfolio Files from portfolio can be turned in for projects Version manage- ment

15. Grading New grading and review queues for manually graded assignments Course staff in different roles working through submitted work

16. Mathematics \[4y^2+\sqrt{\frac{2x^2+3x+4}{1-x^2}}\]

17. Chemistry

18. Computer Science Bridge Tasks for CSE 101 Management and scheduling of tasks Time-and-place slots Project assignments with artifacts graded on multiple dimensions Coupled with portfolio space

19. LON-CAPA@MSU LON-CAPA and predecessor systems CAPA and LectureOnline used at MSU since 1992

20. Users

21. Courses

22. Disciplines

23. Automated Course Generation http://loncapa.msu.edu/

24. Automated Enrollment

25. Single-Sign-On LON-CAPA will work with Sentinel Single- Sign-On at MSU LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at Ohio University

26. Commercial Business eduCog, LLC Founded in 2005 Provides LON- CAPA hosting and problem coding

27. Consortium LON-CAPA Academic Consortium MSU and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign founding members Consortium document just passed legal review at both institutions Documents will hopefully be signed this year

28. Outlook In-Class use of LON-CAPA Collaboration with Mazur group at Harvard “Next Generation Clickers” Already ported ConcepTest questions

29. Contact Project website: http://www.lon-capa.org/ http://www.lon-capa.org/ LON-CAPA@MSU: http://loncapa.msu.edu/ http://loncapa.msu.edu/ Gerd Kortemeyer: korte@lon-capa.org korte@lon-capa.org