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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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