ClassHome Educational Environment

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Class_at_Home Educational Environment

• Kimberly Buyze
• Roger Elion
• Jonathan Hadders
• Steve Weber

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What is Class_at_Home?

• A complete educational environment for college
  students
• Combines pre-existing and new applications
• Useful for students inside and outside of the
  classroom
• Includes easy-to-use teacher interface
• Provides a single access point for all teacher
  materials

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Goals

• To supply all of college students course related
  computing needs with a single program
• To improve student-teacher communication through
  interactive applications
• To provide professors with a
• powerful means of integrating
• modern instructional
• software

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Features
Ability to save and load class environments
PowerView document viewer
Class Directory Tree
Paperless Note Taker (Student Only)
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Student View
Teacher View

• QuickPoll
• PacePoll

• QuickPoll feedback
• PacePoll feedback

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Internet Applications

• NetMeeting

• WebCT

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Student View
Teacher View
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Base Architecture
QuickPoll
Worksheet Creator
PacePoll
NetMeeting
Internet Explorer
Base App
Student View
Teacher View
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Network Interaction
Student
Internet
NetMeeting
Assignment Submission
WebCT
NetMeeting
Teacher
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Feedback Flow
Student
Student
QuickPoll
PacePoll
Class_at_Home Server
PacePoll Feedback
QuickPoll Feedback
Teacher
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Looking to the future.

• E-mortarboard student planner
• E-backpack containing student texts
• Custom E-grader with WebCT export capability
• Incorporate custom e-mail client
• Extend for other grade levels

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Questions?