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Satyagopal Mandal

Department of Mathematics

University of Kansas

Office: 502 Snow Hall Phone: 785-864-5180

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Update: The system was developed around year 2000. The system is based on cgi and sql.
System was used continuously since 2000, until KU IT stopped supporting the system in 2017.
In Fall 2000, the system was used to teach huge class (Math 105) of around 700 students. The homework was graded electronically.
As early as 2002, the system was used to give online courses through Independent Study Unit (now Continuing Ed). The course ran continuously till when Independent Study Unit structure changed around 2012.

Features and Benefits

Main Features:

The instructor can create and edit homework online,

input, view and edit class roster online,

input, view and edit test scores online and view final report,

do teaching evaluation online and view report,

reuse old homework and other instructor's homework, if permitted.

The students in the roster can access the homework, complete and submit them online.
The students answer is graded electronically and saved in the database.
The instructors and the students will have a userid and password for each course (i.e. line number) in a semester.
The students and instructors can change their password online.
Neither the instructor nor the students can change the database without the password.
The instructor can see the grades online.
The students can see his/her grades online.
The student gets immediate feedback about the correctness of the answers.
The students can resubmit the homework as many times as they want before the midnight of the due date set by the instructor.
The instructor can give a maximum of 10 questions in a homework.
The instructor has a choice of three different types of answers :
Answer by Checking the correct check-box,
Answer by selecting the correct answer from a listbox,
Answer by typing in the numerical answer.
The instructor will have to type in the questions, 5 choices of possible answers (in checkbox and listbox answer questions) and check the correct answer or type in the correct numerical answer, online, as always.
The instructor has the maximum flexibility, in the sense, that he/she can edit it as many times as he/she wants (like extending the due date).
Students will not see the homework untill the instructor makes it available to them.