Headed across the state today to meet with Montcalm community college in Kirtland community college to discuss Canvas. Meeting is mostly about technology implementation, rules and policies. Not ready to discuss course shell best practices at this point. Mostly IT and support staff invited, not many faculty.
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI saw your presentation on the Book of Math, endorsing the use of MyOpenMath as an LTI with an LMS for a math instructors best approach for using a homework platform in their courses.
I was impressed, and would like to try MyOpenMath and try and emulate what you have done in my classes. Could I ask you a few questions to see if what you presented is applicable to my course?
Let me give a brief overview:
I have used Canvas for the first time this semester and in comparison to what Moodle could do I am finding that Canvas is quite limiting for statistic classes. It seems likely that our campus will adopt Canvas so I am hoping that the approach that you have posed with MyOpenMath as an LTI with Canvas would offer a solution to the current restrictions posed by Canvas.
Could you please let me know if you think that MyOpenMath when used with an LTI with canvas would solve these hurdles presented by Canvas?
1.) Canvas requires that each new attempt on a homework assignment begins with a clean slate. That is when the Canvas quiz modules are configured as homework assignments that permit multiple attempts, the student upon each re-submission must re-enter the answers that they have already gotten correct on previous submissions. This is very frustrating and time consuming for the student. Their efforts should be directed toward the problems they have yet to get correct, not the mindless re-entry of values that have already been found to be correct.
Do you think that MyOpenMath when used as an LTI with Canvas will permit correct answers to be held as correct without requiring re-entry?
2.) "Multiple Questions" is the term that Canvas uses to describe problems that require more than one submission cell. For example a student might be prompted to enter several values in table arranged in rows and columns. Another common example with all math and science courses is that the answer is not just a number but the associated notation and the numeric value: P(A U B) = 0.42 for example.
Canvas has big drop off in functionality for such problems:
2a) "Partial" feedback: The student receives a red-flag of "Partial" with a note that 13 of 20 are correct. But there will be no indication of which problems are correct or wrong. The student can start again but only with a clean slate and no indication of which answers were wrong. The only work-around is that the instructor must write in the comment section that an answer is "correct".
2b) Any numeric value must be entered as text.
2c) Any numeric tolerance must simulated by offering a dozen numeric "words" that will be recognized as text. 0.123 is not “spelled” the same as .123, and will considered "wrong" unless it too is provided as an answer and has the comment of "Correct" written next to it in the comment section.
2d) Point weights must be all the same. An instructor can NOT specify that a multiple choice problem be worth less in terms of points than a "numeric" problem that requires calculation from the student.
3.) Canvas requires that Only 4 decimals of accuracy are permitted for Single cell numeric answers.
Do you think that MyOpenMath when used as an LTI with Canvas will permit instructors to work around these limitations posed by Canvas ?
Can you Please Tell me Yes?