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Bob and Us.
A Graphic Story
and
An Introduction to
SOAR@ekove
Systemized Online Assessments and
Resources
(http://soar.ekove.com)
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Hey there!
Ever wished that your marking could be done in a jiffy?
Ever wished you could collate the marks without lifting a finger?
Ever wished you could create a test while during the Deal or No Deal
commercial break?
Ever wished you could speak to parents about their child�s performance with
precise data on how their child is faring?
How about generating a pre-test and post-test for mathematics during
recess?
Ever thought about having a competition during your English lesson to see
who gets the most marks in Grammar without even having to plan for it?
Would you like to post assignments to your students while on vacation in June
without having to worry about marking tons and tons of assignments when
you return?
Maybe you would like to have an online chat with your students to discuss a
topic of interest?
How about an e-mail system which you can use for situational writing
practice?
Wouldn�t it be nice to contact all your students by e-mail without having to
create one for them?
Don�t you think it would be fabulous if you could collate your students� whole
year�s result by topics, components and question types at the click of a
mouse?
How about getting the entire class to be quiet by pressing the mute button on
your keyboard?
Imagine if you could get your principal deported to Angola by clicking on
the delete button?
Well, we did!
And we managed to find a way to get what we wished for and more...
(but we are still working on the last two)
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We thought we would present you this system by using a narrative
style (like a story) so that you can understand our message better.
For this story we will be using Bob as our hero.
This is Bob.
Rather, this was Bob 8 years ago. We couldn�t get a more recent
picture of Bob so we will have to make do with this one for now.
Cute, isn�t he?
Just like how it took Bob some time to grow up to be the big boy
that he is today, it took us some time to get here.
We designed a system called SOAR which we know will amaze
you because it still amazes us.
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So, what does SOAR do?
SOAR allows teachers to create assignments online and to post
them to their students. You don�t even have to worry about the
questions; we are building the database of questions even as you
are reading this. You can create assignments which look almost
like the school worksheets that you may be using, except that we
have taken the marking of the worksheets off your hands and
lengthened the short life of your red pen in the process.
This description is just the tip of the iceberg. There is more to come.
In fact we don�t even know where to start.
Tell you what; let�s start with the user � Bob.
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THE FIRST CHAPTER
Like Bob, every student gets a user name and password which
they use to access the system online. Once Bob is logged on, he
sees this page first.
This would be the student�s homepage. This is where Bob can
access all the features found in the system. We will describe the
features one at a time.
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The Learning Module
Here Bob can do three activities.
1. Practice on randomly generated Grammar Multiple Choice
Questions.
Bob can do as many as he wants and for as long as he wants.
And you don�t have to mark it. The system marks the questions
and tells Bob whether he got them wrong or right. It also points out
the correct answer to Bob.
Come on Bob! You can do it!
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It even gives Bob a running score that updates his score after he
submits each answer to let him know how well he is doing.
Well done Bob!
And the system keeps all of Bob�s scores from the day he started.
(we will show you that a little later..)
2. Practice on randomly generated Vocabulary Multiple
Choice Questions.
Well the same goes for this section...
Bob gets to practice on randomly generated Vocabulary MCQ
questions.
And Bob gets the same running score for his efforts.
It looks like Bob is not doing too well here.
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Well, we were prepared for that actually. Bob is probably not
doing too well because he finds it cumbersome to check the
dictionary (don�t they all).
So we decided to help Bob along a bit. We gave him an online
Dictionary feature to help him out. And it looks like this...
We had some arguments deciding on the background colour of
the button but eventually the programmer with the biggest biceps
got her way...(again)
Anyway...
By clicking on this icon Bob can come here to check on a
particular word such as anklet or any other word for that matter
And he gets the search results instantly and it looks like this...
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It couldn�t have been easier for Bob. The dictionary feature can
be found in all the Practice Modules in English. We liked the
dictionary so much that we decided to get Bob a Thesaurus.
Bob enters the word here.
And he gets a fabulous response from the system.
Awesome...isn�t it?
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SOAR continuously collects the performance data of the users
and archives them for viewing anytime by parents, teachers or
Bob himself. Hence, every time Bob does a practice the results get
stored. All one has to do is go to the reports section which looks
like this.
Ooops...that�s the wrong one
This is the correct one.
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By clicking on Learning Module � English Bob is brought to his
archived results.
The archived results show Bob his scores from day one. It even
gives him a cumulative score for all the practices that he has
done.
And his teacher didn�t have to do a thing...yet!
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As you can see from the table, the reporting is pretty elaborate
and you even get to see when and how often Bob has been
honing his grammar and vocabulary skills...
Looks like Bob has been pretty busy. Way to go Bob!
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3. Download Mathematics worksheets (it�s already there) to
print and practise anytime, anywhere.
Let�s get down to Mathematics.
Bob is not doing too well in this subject and we thought we will
help him out.
With this system Bob can access Mathematics worksheets online
so that his tutor or parent can help him out at home. Bob can
choose the topic that he is currently doing in class...
Let�s say he chooses the topic on Whole Numbers...
He is then provided with a selection of worksheets that he can
choose from.
Bob clicks on a worksheet and the worksheet appears on his
screen as a pdf document.
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Bob can do a few things. He can do the questions off the screen
in his exercise book or he can print it. Once he has completed the
worksheet he can check the answers by clicking on the related
answer sheet link on the website under the Answers column.
Worksheet code
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When he does that the answer sheet appears on the screen in pdf
format.
All he has to do now is to locate the correct list of answers by
matching it to the last three digits of the worksheet code which
can be found at the bottom of the worksheet and looks like this -
WS#: 3-M-1-01-SP-019
Bob can also record his marks and the date that he did the
worksheet on by clicking on Update Marks.
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The system then collates his mark and saves it for future reference.
The report looks like this.
If Bob does a particular worksheet more than once, he can
update the system more than once and the system will reflect this
in its reports. Bob can view the reports topic wise or as a whole.
Bob�s parents, teachers and tutors will then know how much Bob
has done and which worksheets he has done to improve in his
Mathematics. They can also help Bob choose other worksheets
that are available in the system for Bob to practise on.
We have come to the end of the Learning Module and Bob�s
teacher still has not lifted a finger to play a role in moulding Bob.
Well, that�s the way we planned it.
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THE SECOND CHAPTER
The Practice Module
In this module Bob accesses assignments that Bob�s teacher has
created and posted to his account. It took Bob�s teacher less than
10 minutes to do this as the questions were already in the
database.
When Bob accesses the system and clicks on the Practice Module
link he is presented with this page.
Here Bob can click on whichever e-assignment that he wants to
do and goes about doing it. Bob�s teacher has ensured that the
online e-assignments do not take more that 30 minutes to
complete.
Bob can click on any assignment that he wants to do. For each
assignment the due date, marks, difficulty index, number of
attempts and the status (completed/not completed/in progress)
are stated.
For Mathematics, SOAR has the following question types.
Multiple Choice Questions,
Open Ended Questions
and Word Problems
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Back to our story...
When Bob clicks on any of the Mathematics assignment, he is
instantly brought to the first question of the assignment and it looks
like this.
And the next question looks like this...
And so on and so forth...
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If Bob finds any question to be difficult, all he has to do is click on
Hint 1 and he is given some help in doing the question.
Sometimes, depending on the difficulty level of the question Bob
may be provided with more than one hint.
You have seen the Multiple Choice questions. Here is how the
open ended questions look like.
And the word problems...
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Once Bob has completed his e-assignment he is
shown how well he has done it, section by section.
And his results.
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If he wants to find out more about how he has done he can do so
in the reports section.
This shows his e-assignments summary.
If Bob does a particular assignment more than once, then this
table will show the highest and lowest marks that Bob got for all his
attempts. His last attempt (No. 9) is shown here and reflects the
same marks as the one in the previous reports table.
And it doesn�t stop there...
If Bob (or his teacher, tutor or parent) wants to dig deeper and
analyse his performance by topics and question types for a
particular e-assignment he can always do so by going to the
Individual Assignment Analysis section.
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The report looks like this.
The Overall Summary table at the top shows the Overall Summary
(duh...)
The rest of the tables show an analysis of his performance by
topics and question types.
And all this took Bob�s teacher 10 minutes to create the
assignment and SOAR did the rest with clockwork precision.
Traditionally, to provide such an analysis, it would have taken his
teacher a couple of years.
Yes, I am exaggerating but you get my point...
But it still doesn�t stop there.
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Like I said SOAR collects data as if its life depended on it. So it
archives and collates all these results to give Bob an overall
summary of all the Mathematics e- assignments that Bob has done
so far and it looks like this.
This summary is the mother of all summaries. It is organized to give
a topic wise and question wise summary of how well Bob is doing
in Mathematics.
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The Test Module
I am not going to go into a long description like I did for The
Practice Module as it is not very different in its design and
processes.
However for Bob there are some differences. They are as follows.
1. There is a time limit. (set by his teacher when creating the e-
assignment)
2. There are no hints.
3. He can only attempt it once.
4. The report shows the highest, lowest and average marks for
the class (and not for attempts)
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THE THIRD CHAPTER
I know I have been too indulgent in my description of the
Mathematics component of SOAR so far so I will keep this section
as short as possible.
For English these are the components that you can find in SOAR.
English
Grammar MCQ,
Vocabulary MCQ,
Comprehension MCQ,
Grammar Cloze,
Vocabulary Cloze,
Comprehension Cloze,
Editing,
Punctuation,
Graphic Stimulus,
Synthesis and Transformation,
and Comprehension Open Ended
We have to tell you though that except for the rest, the last two
English components would require you to manually mark the
answers.
The English components in SOAR follow the same format as
those found in assessment books and school worksheets but
the difference is that the system marks them for you.
(Am I saying this too many times?)
I know I might be testing your patience here by being too
long winded but my Boss insists that I do it.
(we are secretly working on programming the delete button
on our keyboards to enable us to deport him to Angola or
Botswana �whichever is further)
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However I will make it easy for you. I will just show you screen shots
of as many different English components as I can.
1. Grammar MCQ
2. Vocabulary MCQ
3. Vocabulary Cloze (only the first answer slot is shown here)
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4. Comprehension MCQ (only the first question is shown here)
5. Comprehension � Open Ended (only the first question is shown here)
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6. Grammar Cloze (only the first answer slot is shown here)
7. Comprehension Cloze (only the first answer slot is shown here)
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8. Editing (only the first answer slot is shown here)
9. Synthesis and Transformation
There you go. That�s all of it for now for English. We are still
working on the Graphic Stimulus Component and the
Punctuation MCQ question database and we are pretty
much almost there.
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REPORTS
1. This is the individual e-assignment analysis.
2. This is an overall view of all the e-assignments done so far.
3. And this, like we say, is the mother of all summaries. It gives Bob an
up to date summary analysis of his overall performance in all of the
components.
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THE FINAL CHAPTER
I know it seems like we have pretty much shown you
everything but there is still a lot more.
I still have not shown you the teacher�s module where the
teacher creates the assignments and posts them to his
students.
I have still not shown you how you how convenient it is for a
principal or teacher to view any of the student�s reports from
the comfort of their chair anytime, anywhere.
I have still not shown you how SOAR can be used to
generate printable worksheets that can be used in the
classroom.
I have still not shown you how the chat function works.
I have still not shown you how the children can
communicate by e-mail using the system.
I have still not shown you how we can customise the system
to show your school�s logo on the landing page.
I have still not shown you how I can bend my thumb 100° the
other way without using excessive force or spraining it.
I have still not shown you how you can share the e-
assignments that you have created with your colleagues.
And that is not even including the further eight
enhancements that we have made to SOAR in recent
months to make it even better.
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You may have some questions like...
HOW MUCH?
Although we would very much like to eclipse Microsoft in terms of
earnings, we are keeping it affordable for now.
Call me (be nice), tell me how many students you would like SOAR
to cater to and I�ll tell you how much. You may subscribe for just
your class, or for your level or even the entire school.
WHO DO I CALL?
You can reach me at ekove1@gmail.com or call me on my
mobile during office hours or whichever hours you are
comfortable with at +65-93892999 and ask to speak to Ram.
If you or your colleagues need a personal demonstration or you
just want to see how I look like, you can call me too.
FREE GIFTS?
Well we would love to give away a McDonald�s Happy Meal
voucher and a Condo at Sentosa Cove to every 88 888th
subscriber to the service but we only just started so that would
have to wait.
HOWEVER we are giving every school a chance to try out the
system by giving away a free trial to the first one or two
teachers from your primary school. This offer is only valid for
teachers who are teaching in Primary 3, 4, 5 or 6 as SOAR only
caters to those levels.
BUT if your school is convinced that this system is just what they
wanted and want to subscribe straight away then quickly read
the section on WHO DO I CALL? and call me quickly!
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