SCOPESYSTEMATIZED CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ORIGINAL PROBLEMS AND EXERCISES

Quantitative Reasoning with Current Issues

May 8, 2012, for Cengage

CS615 PRESENTS… SCOPE

• Overall Goal• General community for quantitative reasoning

instructors to post meaningful content for each other.• Instructor-to-instructor interaction, students can

browse.• Quantitative Reasoning social network.

• Users: Instructors, primarily.• What’s Being Posted?

• Exercises based on current news.• Assignments.

• Usage Goals• Organized, specifically searchable content.• Capacity for posts to earn merit.• Multiple methods of posting and downloading material.• Inspiration drawn from tech community websites of

Stack Exchange.• What We Have

• Interface only!• Our summary view of what would be ~20 screens

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CS615 PRESENTS… SCOPE

• Response Thus Far• Positive!• Shown to 3 instructors who provided feedback and are

eager to use it.• What We’ll Show You

1. Home Page• Exercise Listing• Searching • Building an Assignment• Voting

2. Create Exercise3. Exercise Preview4. Instructor Profile

• Personal Info• Assignments Posted

5. About

SCOPE – HOME PAGE DESIGN

HOME PAGE – INFO FOR SEARCHING

Search Features1. Tags2. Ratings3. Full text search4. Sort by

- Date Added- Top Feeds- Hot Feeds- With Problems- With Solutions

5. Posted by

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HOME PAGE - HEADER AND FOOTER

• Header and footer– Images

• SCOPE• CENGAGE• WEB ASSIGN

• Tabs1. Exercises

• Display most recently created Excercises

2. Add Exercises• Add new

Exercises, post problems and provide solutions

3. Tags• Display all

available tags4. Users

• Display all registered users

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HOME PAGE - EXERCISE LISTING SECTION

HOME PAGE - EXERCISE LISTING SECTION - IN DETAIL

Exercise specific

a- Exercise Title b- Exercise contentc- Modified date

d- Problems / Solutions

Statistical information

Number of Comments Number of Views

User related

Posted by Add to cart

Other information

Difficulty Level RatingTags

title content

date

Q/A

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HOME PAGE - EXERCISE LISTING SECTION - IN DETAIL

Sort facility

By default, Exercises sorted by date created.

Problems

Solutions

Rating

Comments

Views

Exercises Per Page

Sort

Per page

HOME PAGE – VOTING

1. Voting Section– Comments– Views– Rating

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COMMENT PAGE

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TBD – Screen where anyone can read comments and logged in instructors can enter them and vote.

HOME PAGE – BUILDING AN ASSIGNMENT

• Add Exercises to the Shopping Cart (free)

• When don, Visit Cart

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SHOPPING CART

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TBDOn Shopping Cart:• Save Selections

(as a named assignment)

• Point Student to it

• Download (as PDF, word, or TEX)

• Revise (delete, or return to list for more shopping)

On Profile Page:• Assignments

Saved (old and new)

• Edit Assignments

CREATE AN EXERCISE

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1. Title2. Tags3. Rating by Owner

• Routine• Worthy• Complex• Artificial

4. Upload

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CREATE AN EXERCISE - CONTINUED

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1.Raw Material• LaTeX formatting• Add Image

2.Problems• LaTeX formatting

(optional)• Add Image

3.Solutions• LaTeX formatting

(optional)• Add Image

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CREATE AN EXERCISE - CONTINUED

ANNOTATIONS

1.Notes2.Buttons

• Discard• Add to Cart• Preview• Submit

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PREVIEW

ANNOTATIONS

1. Title2. Raw Material3. Problems4. Solutions5. Tags6. Owner Rating7. Viewer Rating8. Author9. Date Created10.Buttons

• Edit• Submit• Add to Cart• Save as draft• Cancel

TIME FOR QUESTIONS

USER PROFILE - INFORMATION

• Exercise Tab

1. User identification line contains: a. User IDb. Indicates the user is an instructorc. Reputation earned by

• Creating exercises, questions or answers• Community voting

d. Default Editor• Web text editor• TEX• Others

e. Ability to edit or delete the profile

2. General profile information contains picture, email, website, real name , join date and an area where user can describe him or herself

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USER PROFILE – TABS

• Exercise Tab1

1. Exercise Tab– Display exercises

created by the user, exercises have the same format as on the home page

2. Assignments Tab– Displays

assignments the user has created

3. Statistics Tab – Displays the

number of exercises, questions and answers created by the user, reputation events

4. Tags Tab– Displays all the

tags used and the number of times used

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USER PROFILE - ASSIGNMENT

• Exercise Tab

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1. Built from exercises selected by the shopping cart

2. Assignments can be downloaded in PDF, Word , plain text with or without Problems and Solutions

3. Users can create assignments and give them descriptions and group exercises within them

4. Exercises assigned to an assignment can be displayed/hidden inline by pressing the Show/Hide details link

5. Assignments and exercises can be deleted by using the trash can icon.

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ABOUT PAGE

1. Short description of the project and release.

2. Maintains the uniform design of the site.

3. Who are we working for?

4. Who made it happen?

5. What technologies we have used?– Mockflow wireframing

tool– Dropbox (to sync

different files)– Powerpoint (to present

it to you)

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SCOPE – HOME PAGE DESIGN