Misty Hanks

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Online Classroom Management

• Misty Hanks Morehead State
• Brian Stokes Peirce College

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Agenda

• Challenges of managing online students
• Exam management
• Blackboard
• E-College
• Research paper management
• Turnitin.com
• EVE2
• Classroom management
• DyKnow

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Challenges

• No face to face contact
• Students must be more independent
• Students have less supervision
• Quality and integrity of student work
• How can an instructor ensure students are doing
  the work?
• Plagiarism and the Internet
• Maintaining focus on important material
  (information overload)

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Managing Exams

• Use the features of your CMS/LMS to give you an
  edge.
• Blackboard
• eCollege
• ANGEL
• Desire2Learn
• Moodle
• Etc.

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Blackboard

• The Blackboard Learning System is a comprehensive
  and flexible e-Learning software platform that
  delivers a complete course management system1
• Bb has at least 11 settings which can be used
  alone or in combination to increase the integrity
  of an online exam

1Blackboard, Inc. (2004). Instructors Manual.
Online at http//library.blackboard.com/docs/r6/6_
1/instructor/bbls_r6_1_instructor/
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Blackboard

• Common restrictions used to secure a test in Bb
  include
• the test availability
• the time a student can spend taking the exam
• forcing a student to complete the exam once it is
  started.

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Blackboard
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Blackboard

• Less common restrictions include
• Presentation Mode
• Varied feedback
• Passwords

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Blackboard

• One at a time presentation mode combined with
  prohibit backtracking, and randomize questions
  reduces answer sharing

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Blackboard

• Change feedback after the exam has closed to
  provide test review and/or a study guide

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Blackboard

• The Password setting is useful for makeup exams.

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eCollege

• Course management system
• Recently purchased by Pearson
• Like BlackBoard, eCollege has many options for
  controlling exams and quizzes

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eCollege

• Exam options

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eCollege

• Scheduling

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eCollege

• Exam pools

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Managing Research Papers

• Plagiarism
• Education
• Detection tools
• Turnitin and Eve are both plagiarism detection
  tools. Others include Doc Cop, Safe Assign,
  iThenticate, Plagiarism.org, Glatt, etc.

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TurnItIn.com

• Plagiarism detection tool that allows faculty and
  students to determine extent to which a paper can
  be matched to existing material on the internet,
  in print, or in Turnitins own database.
• TurnItIn keeps student submissions for future
  comparisons.

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TurnItIn.com

• Turnitin lives on the Internet
• With 14 instructors submitting over 750 papers to
  TurnItIn.com the results are
• 556 papers with a rating of 0-24 matching
  material
• 61 papers with a score of 75 or greater matching
  material

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EVE2

• Installs on local PC
• Compares papers to free Web only
• Three levels of detection (highest level is VERY
  slow)
• Ability to compare suspect item to tagged web
  site
• Results are saved as RTF with highlighted suspect
  items

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EVE2

• ---------------------------
• Plagiarism Report
• Generated by EVE 2.4
• 10/4/2007 71813 PM
• ---------------------------
•  
• Document C\Documents and Settings\Brian\Desktop\
  AirPollution.txt
•  
• Amount of document detected to be plagiarized
  94.17
• Please Note You should always check EVE's
  results carefully to make sure they are accurate.
•  
• Matching material was found on these sites
• http//www.pink-globalwarming-awareness2007.com/20
  07/02/05/acid-rain/
• http//www.greenobserver.com/content/view/17/40/
• http//www.switchonenergy.com/AirPollution.html
• Air Pollution
•  
• What is air pollution?

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How do they compare?
Technical Review of Plagiarism Detection
Software available at http//turnitin.com/static/
pdf/luton.pdf
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Managing online lectures

• DyKnow
• Vision
• Collaborative tool
• Allows students to annotate instructor slides
• Monitor
• Allows instructor to control classroom
  environment
• View thumbnails of student screens
• Blacklist or whitelist applications
• Blank student screens

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DyKnow Monitor

• Thumbnail view of each student in classroom

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DyKnow Monitor

• Whitelist or blacklist applications or URLs on
  student PCs

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DyKnow Monitor

• Send attention message to individual or group

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DyKnow Monitor

• Automated attendance

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Summary

• Use available technology to control
• Exams
• Papers
• Lectures
• Questions?