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How Does It Work?

Authoring Tools:

• Multiple authors may collaborate online from anywhere on the planet, using resources they originate, select, or upload.

• They agree upon the structure and then "place" images, sounds, or text into that structure to build-out interactive tutorials.

• Authors may build an unlimited number of learning units to: 1. present information, 2. provide exercises, and 3. test performance.

• A tutorial may be a page, a unit, a chapter, a course, or an entire academic program.

• Authors provide multiple possible right answers for all exercise and test questions, along with reinforcing or corrective feedback for each student response.

• The program records item performance metrics to permit the instructor to spot and correct invalid or unreliable question and answer items. 

Resources

• Images are stored as .jpg files;

• Text may be supplied in .html or any number of other formats;

• Sounds are stored as .wav files, or as Real Audio files;

• Video is stored as .avi, Real Video files, or as VRML.

Tutorial Delivery to the Student:

1. Through a unique login for each user, the teacher grants students access to specific tutorial functions within specific tutorials for a specific period of time.

2. Delivery of new or revised tutorials to the student can be immediate; even instantaneous !

The following list of unit types serves to illustrate the wide spectrum of functionality provided in our program.  The names of this tutorial's functional sections reflect the fact that this tutorial was originally built to teach foreign languages.  But, in reality, it is suited to teaching virtually any subject matter.  We also contract to develop custom program functions to suit any unique requirements you may have.

1. Presentation and Interactive Exercises

   • Authors build interactive multimedia presentation screens of any type (branching or sequential) that will run across the Internet.

   • All learning activities encourage discovery learning through interactivity.

    

2. Dialogs, Skit, Role-Play and Interactive Exercises

   • Authors build interactive multimedia dialogs and skits to emulate real human interaction with still (or full-motion video) images.

   • Interactive multimedia exercises help the student learn to play any or all roles, while the computer plays the rest.

    

3. Grammar and Interactive Exercises

   • Authors build interactive multimedia exercises cued visually, acoustically, or with text practicing features of grammar, or any other content.

   • Typed student responses may be matching, fill-in, multiple choice, a short phrase, a complete sentence, or a short paragraph.

    

4. Listening and Interactive Exercises

   • Students listen to spoken or other acoustic material for comprehension.

   • Visually, acoustically, and text-cued interactive multimedia exercises require typed student responses, e.g. matching, fill-in, multiple choice, a short phrase, a complete sentence, or a short paragraph.

    

5. Speaking and Interactive Exercises

   • By means of a number of acoustic, or visual and acoustic, communication links the teacher instructs the student to access a specific address on the Internet to begin a speaking quiz.

   • The student is presented visual, acoustic, or text cues and asked to respond aloud in a spoken utterance, which the teacher hears and subjectively assesses in real time, according to defined criteria.

   • After making the utterance the student types his response as he would in any other interactive quiz.

   • The computer records and evaluates these typed student responses for textual correctness, while the teacher notes the quality of the spoken utterances.

    

6. Reading and Interactive Exercises

   • The student reads a body of text for comprehension.

   • Interactive multimedia exercises (visually, acoustically and text-cued) require typed student responses, e.g. matching, fill-in, multiple choice, a short phrase, a complete sentence, or a short paragraph.

    

7. Assisted Composition* and Interactive Exercises

   • Interactive multimedia guided composition exercises in a variety of formats, either visually, acoustically or text-cued, require typed student responses, as specified by the authors.

   • The program displays the student's work product as a short composition.

    

8. Dictation and Interactive Exercises

   • The student is acoustically cued to type exactly what he hears.

   • The program checks the accuracy of the student's typed responses with correction or reinforcement of his performance.

    

9. Review and Interactive Exercises

   • All learning material is available to the student 24x7.

   • The student may re-take all exercises and quizzes at his discretion, because only his highest scores are displayed.

   • OR, the authors may choose to build a separate review section for this purpose.

    

10. Quizzes and Scoring

    • Interactive multimedia quiz items are randomized by the program into unique quizzes, drawn from a data bank of quiz items.

    • The program scores student responses and grades student quizzes on the fly; in real time.

     

11. Grade Records

    • Scores and grades for each student are maintained by the program, available online to the teacher and confidentially to the individual student, alike.

    • Only the student's highest quiz grades are displayed for each exercise or test.

    • However, the teacher may also see a complete ledger of all key-strokes of all typed student responses, organized by unit, session, date, and time.