CourseWork, Base Version (1998): An Interactive Problem Set Manager
In early winter 1988 the Stanford Learning Lab initiated development on CourseWork, a web-based problem set tool for use in the Human Biology Program at Stanford University. In fall 1998, this version was made available to students and was in use until superseded by Version 1. In 2000, the program was expanded to support other question types and quizzes at Stanford's Academic Computing group by Scott Stocker.
Functionality of the system included:
- Multiple roles: students and instructors
- Linkage to a manually prepared course website for students to view course content and announcements
- Authoring of Problem Set multiple choice questions by instructors over the web
- Multiple choice questions coupled with open-ended rationale in which students explain their mc answers
- Online delivery of problem set to students; submission of work; automatic grading of multiple choice questions
- Review of responses with different views for students and instructors
- Sorting of rationales based on multiple choice responses to help faculty sample student ideas for identifying common misconceptions and bad questions
- E-mail feedback tool, coupled to instructors' submission review system, for fast, personalized feedback from instructors to students
CourseWork-Base Version was designed by George Toye, Scott Stocker, and Charles Kerns, based on discussions with Human Biology faculty, including Prof. Russ Fernauld, and teaching assistants. Its first implementation required browser versions: Netscape 3.01 or higher or Internet Explorer 4.0.
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