Learning Management System Overview
Our Learning Management System provides an easy-to-use interface for performing administrative tasks associated with the Cognitive Tutor Software. Such tasks typically include:
- Adding and deleting instructors
- Creating new course rosters
- Tracking student progress as they work through the curriculum
- Printing course summaries and individual student reports
- Maintaining course rosters (changing student names, transferring and removing students)
- Restarting and skipping problems
- Changing a student's placement within the curriculum
- Deleting course rosters
Resequencing & Customized Curricula
Our flexible sequencing allows instructors to build a custom curriculum to meet the special needs of the college. Units can be re-ordered, added and deleted, and new sequences named and published for use in the course.
Curriculum Browser
The Curriculum Browser feature allows instructors to view and print detailed information about Cognitive Tutor curricula, including unit, section, and lesson content. Furthermore, instructors can launch Cognitive Tutor lessons in an "instructor preview" mode. The Curriculum Browser feature also allows instructors to tag a list of "favorite" units in Cognitive Tutor Curricula. Tagged units can be viewed in the Create Custom Curriculum Tool and inserted into a custom curriculum sequence.
Custom Curriculum Advisor
The Custom Curriculum Advisor is a new feature enhancement in the Create Custom Curriculum Tool. It provides real-time feedback when you plan and construct a custom curriculum sequence from Cognitive Tutor Curricula. It identifies pre-requisite units, redundancies across units, or dependencies between units of math instruction. You can use this data to adjust your curriculum sequence before you save and publish it for use in your course.
View Student Activity
Periodically, an instructor may want to review student work in the Cognitive Tutor Software. The ability to look at how a student is working to solve a current math problem may provide some additional insights into how to support his/her learning. In particular, this feature may be useful in a lab or virtual learning environment for assisting a student who is struggling to master a concept or skill and provide an opportunity to address a misconception.
Assessments
Automated assessments deliver pre- and post-tests that automatically tie to custom-sequenced curricula. The pretest diagnostically determines areas of student strength and weakness, and can optionally be configured to prescribe more work through the curriculum in areas of weakness. The assessments also produce multiple variants of selected problems, so different students receive the same content, but with different problems.
Reports
The Learning Management System Reports cover a variety of information including time spent in lessons, number of problems completed, etc. Each report provides a different view of student data.
- Detailed reports document student activity in the software, including: mastered skills, number of problems solved, errors, help requests, etc.
- Use data to guide instructionaldecision-making