What’s New in LON-CAPA?
Gerd Kortemeyer
January 2006
What’s New in LON-CAPA?
• New functionality
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Content assembly
Course overview
Communication
Portfolio
Grading
Mathematics, Chemistry, and
Computer Science
• New@MSU
 Users, courses, and
disciplines
 Automated course generation
 Automated enrollment
 Single-sign-on
• New organizational
structures
 Commercial
business
 Consortium
• Outlook
 Next Generation
Clickers
Content Assembly
• Cross-institutional
network
• 41 colleges and
universities
• 31 middle and
high schools
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Content Assembly
• Total holdings (Fall 2005): 148,483 resources
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Content pages: 38,308
Problems: 52,592
Images: 49,340
Content assemblies: 6,643
Animations: 700
Movies: 500
Simulations: 400
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Content Assembly
Sorted by
access count
Content Assembly
• Newly establish bi-directional link to NSF
National Science Digital Library
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Content Assembly
• Recognizes file
dependencies when
uploading files from
your local computer
Content Assembly
Course Overview
Communication
• Tighter coupling between messages and
course
• Messages tied to resource and course
Communication
• We
always
had
Communication
• Now included direct jumps to take action in
response to messages
Portfolio
• Every user
has portfolio
space
Portfolio
• Files from portfolio can be turned in for
projects
• Version
management
Grading
• New grading and review queues for
manually graded assignments
• Course staff in different roles working
through submitted work
Mathematics
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Chemistry
Computer Science
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Bridge Tasks for CSE 101
Management and scheduling of tasks
Time-and-place slots
Project assignments with artifacts graded
on multiple dimensions
• Coupled with portfolio space
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LON-CAPA@MSU
• LON-CAPA and predecessor systems
CAPA and LectureOnline used at MSU
since 1992
Users
Courses
Disciplines
Automated Course Generation
• http://loncapa.msu.edu/
Automated Enrollment
Single-Sign-On
• LON-CAPA will work with Sentinel SingleSign-On at MSU
• LON-CAPA will work with Shibboleth at
Ohio University
Commercial Business
• eduCog, LLC
• Founded in 2005
• Provides LONCAPA hosting and
problem coding
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Consortium
• LON-CAPA Academic
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Consortium
MSU and the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
founding members
Consortium document just
passed legal review at both
institutions
Documents will hopefully be
signed this year
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Outlook
• In-Class use of
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LON-CAPA
Collaboration
with Mazur
group at
Harvard
“Next
Generation
Clickers”
Already ported
ConcepTest
questions
Contact
• Project website:
http://www.lon-capa.org/
• LON-CAPA@MSU:
http://loncapa.msu.edu/
• Gerd Kortemeyer:
korte@lon-capa.org