The usability of claroline in secondary education

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The usability of claroline in secondary education

• Bob Podevijn SGR22 - GENT

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Claroline in another context than training
The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?

• Intranet for school administration
  organisation
• Organisation of extra-muros activities foreign
  exchange projects (communication, evaluation, )
• To support collective work (groups tool)

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School administration organisation
The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?

• useful for
• document sharing communication
• staff announcements schoolplanning
• by using the platform, teachers intrinsically get
  used to its procedures methods
• ?

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The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?
document sharing communication

• What users say
• sorting options could be improved
• search function
• groups tool document sharing needs to be more
  secure (doc. ownership) / e-mail notification

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The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?
document sharing communication

• What users say
• possibility to add attachments or attach existing
  platform content
• history of sent messages
• possibility to sign e-mails with a personalised
  signature
• ?

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The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?
staff announcements schoolplanning

• What users say
• the actual agenda tool is inconveniently arranged
• it could use some export functionalities
  (outlook/pda)
• add event screen extra field(s) (location,
  group,) ?

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The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?
to support collective work groups tool

• very useful for online coöperation within teacher
  groups (composing exams, exchanging material, )
• very useful to support group assignments (mostly
  forum documents section)
• improvements improved doc. security and
  organisation, whos online? or instant-messaging
  plugin (msn-like)

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Future developments functionalities versus
pedagogy user-friendliness
The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?

• online demo distance teaching project
• major issues
• content diversity vs user-friendliness
• export issues (scorm)
• feedback and evaluation

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content diversity vs user-friendliness
The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?

• absolute need for open question type
• lay-out requires a basic html knowledge
• embedding new technologies is too hard for
  html-illiterates (flash, webvideo,)
• extra question types could be added
• ?

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export issues (scorm)
The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?

• exporting single exercises with their attached
  content is only possible if they are used in a
  learning path (scorm)
• imported exercise lacks feedback and tracking
  options (not accessible as an exercise in the new
  course)
• export options for tracking data could be
  improved
• ?

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feedback and evaluation
The usability of claroline in secondary education
/ Claroline Which future?

• major improvement is the ability to track each
  answer given by a student
• should be possible to add feedback to every type
  of question
• could be interesting if you could add hyperlinks
  and extra modules in the feedback fields
• ?