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Brightspace& gradingO

tto Visser

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Or: the pain of a

growing course

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Who am

I

•Teacher C

omputer Science & Engineering

–C

omputer O

rganisation (1styear course)

–O

perating Systems (2

ndyear course)–

Bachelor end project (3rdyear course)

•R

esponsible for a lot of the software used

in the education of our CSE students

•And m

ore

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Com

puter Organisation

•First year, first quarter course

•G

amified together w

ith AlexandruIosup

(NL Teacher of the year 2015)

•G

amification of the course started in

±2010–

±130 students–

2 TAs –

1 teacher

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8 years later…

•>875 students (and >500 m

ails)•

±30 TAs •

3 teachers•

Lectures given 3 times

•Instructions given 6 tim

es•

But still gamified!

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CO

Grading S

cheme

•10,000 points =

10–

2 * 4,000 points of exams

–T

he other 2,000?

•Lab bonuses (6) (up to 3,200)

•G

roup work (up to 1,400)

•Q

uizzes (up to 100 each)

•M

isc(50)

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In-lecture quizzes

•O

n paper (~150 students)•

On our paper (~250 students)

•Brightspace quizzes (~450 students)

•M

apleTA(~900 students)

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MapleTA

•C

ourse admin à

tools àtoggle M

apleTA•

New

item in content: existing activities à

MapleTA

•O

h wait…

contact BS support first

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Grades/points & G

DPR

•Past:–

Leader boards with points and nam

es–

PDFs on BB w

ith names or student num

bers

•N

ow:

–Anonym

ised leader board–

Brightspace grade book

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Systems used

•O

siris•

Brightspace•

CPM

•Q

ueue•

Peer•

ConTest(Sonate

replacement)

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Data path

CPM

PeerC

onTest

Brightspace

Osiris

LTI

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Import/export hell

•All system

s use CSV

•O

r not?•

Wonderful error m

essages:–

“Cannot read file”

–“This file is still open in Excel”

•And then there’s this student:–

“Pietersen, ookw

elgenaamd

Janssen”

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Importing into B

S

•Step 1: export from

BS•

Step 2: 2 tabs in LibreOffice/Excel:

–Your data that needs to be im

ported–

The exported data from B

S•

Step 3: massage BS data till usable

–#4567890 à

=RIGHT(A2, 7)–

Select all, data m

enu: text to columns

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Importing into BS

•G

etting the actual grade item:

=IFERROR(…; “”)INDEX($’MyData’.X:X;…)

MATCH(B2, $’MyData’.A:A;0)

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Check, check, double check

•W

hat if student is not in BS list?=MATCH(A2;$’BSExport’.A:A)

•At the bottom

:=COUNTIF(B2:B1024;”>0”)

•Am

ount of times this num

ber matched:

–0

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CPM

& Peer

•In-house developm

ent•

Added both BS compatible and O

siris com

patible export buttons

•N

B: we plan to m

ake semi-universal

converter tool; is there interest?

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BS Gradebook

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BS Gradebook –

zooming in

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Exercise time –

setup

•O

pen in Brightspace your Sandbox course

•G

o to grades and start “Setup Wizard”

–C

hoose formula

–N

ext, next, next –

Step 4: round off at 0,5 (exam regulations)

–N

ext, next, next

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Exercise time –

grade items

•Add a pass/fail item

•Add a bonus (but not M

apleTA)•

Add an exam and a resit

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Exercise time –

final grade

•C

reate formula for the final grade:

–Iffpass/fail item

is a pass–

Bonus only counts iffexam > 5

–H

ighest score of exam & resit counts

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Fun times?

•Partial solution: partial grades (subtotals)

•H

ow about using LibreO

ffice/Excel?

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Questions / discussion

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