Course Element "Practice"
Profile
| Name | Practice |
|---|---|
| Icon | |
| Available since | Release 17.0 |
| Functional group | Assessment |
| Purpose | Knowledge transfer and self-examination. A defined number of questions must be answered. Questions that are not answered correctly are asked again and repeated according to the flashcard principle. |
| Assessable | no |
| Specialty / Note | Practice questions can be managed in the question bank |
Operating principle
Video Introduction (German): The course element Practice
The course element "Practice" works according to the principle of a flashcard. The subjects correspond to levels.
Important
All questions must be automatically correctable. Therefore, no question types are allowed that require mandatory manual assessment, such as "free text entry" or "drawing".
Level
In order to be able to assess one's own performance even without evaluation (points), a learning level is displayed for each question. A level indicates how successfully a question was answered.
Downgrading
For example, if a question was answered correctly 3 times in a row, it is in level 3. If it is then not answered correctly once, it drops back to level 2.
System wide availability
The results (personal level for a question) are stored with the respective participant. They are thus available globally throughout the system. Even if the participant takes part in another course.
This means, for example, that if a question has already been answered correctly twice and is therefore classified in level 2, OpenOlat remembers: Learner A has question y in level 2. If this question comes up again in another course element Practice or in a completely different course, Learner A does not start there from 0, but builds on his/her already achieved level.
This can even mean that someone enters a course for the first time and discovers there in the learning status display of a course element Practice that a certain percentage has already been reached.
Practice series
Questions are always asked in practice series of, for example, 10 questions. The number of questions can be set per practice series.
For the practice series questions can be compiled
- from several learning resources (different test learning resources)
- or from shares (freely given questions from a question bank)
The learning resources and shares that should be available for the creation of the practice series have to be specified by the author in the configuration of the course element.
It is also possible for participants to compile their own series of questions. Learners can thus focus individually on specific subject areas and filter out questions relevant to them on the basis of the taxonomy.
Challenges
Several practice series make up a challenge. A challenge is an intermediate goal that can be reached by completing a certain number of series.
The total number of challenges can be set.
After completion of a challenge, detailed statistics on the learning status as well as a summary overview are available in addition to the ranking.
Configuration tab
As with all course elements, the author selects the course element Practice in the course menu for configuration. Especially in the tab "Configuration" you will find the setting options and settings.
Ressources
In contrast to most other course elements, the course element Practice allows you to integrate several learning resources. The questions used in the course element Practice come from the question bank or test learning resources.
Currently there are 2 ways to insert questions into the course element Practice:
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On the one hand, you can include a learning resource Test, as you do in the course elements Test and Self-test. Then the questions from the tests can be practiced.
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Second, you can insert questions from the question bank. You can insert question sets from lists, shares, and group shares.
Later modification or addition of questions is possible.
Criteria
By defining criteria for taxonomy and metadata, the desired questions can be specifically filtered out.
- You can specify multiple taxonomy categories to which the questions must be assigned.
- Since not all questions are assigned to a specific subject area, it may also be permissible to include questions that are not assigned to a subject area.
- The following metadata options are available for filtering: test type, keyword, language, and level. (Filter criteria based on this metadata can also be combined.)
Practice settings
In the practice settings, the author determines:
- Number of levels (how many times a question should be answered correctly)
- Number of questions per series (how many questions to answer per practice series)
- Number of series per challenge
- Number of challenges required as completion criteria
Used questions
An overview displays all questions available for review based on the criteria (grouped by subject area/taxonomy).
Please note:
These are links to the questions. No copies of the questions are stored in the course module. Therefore, if a question is modified or deleted, it is also modified or removed in the course element Practice.
Practice practically
Given practices
In the configuration of the course element, coaches can control which questions are included in the automatically assembled practice series.
The filtering is done by the author in the course editor through the settings in the "Criteria" section:
- Selection of the appropriate learning resources
- Confinement to a specific taxonomy
- Do not include questions without subject area
- further narrowing down to specific contained metadata
In addition, the participants can also practice by subject area, which will be offered according to the pre-selection of the authors.
Self compiled exercises
Learners can also compose their own question series from the included question set or use a predefined selection, an individual practice series.
From the second round onwards, the learner can then decide whether to work only on completely new questions or on those that were answered incorrectly.
For individual practice according to their own needs, participants can therefore choose between 3 different modes:
New questions: Practice with questions that the participant has never answered before.
My mistakes: Practice with questions that have already been answered incorrectly by the participant.
Individual series: Practice with a series of questions you put together yourself
Feedbacks
Feedback to the learner on whether he or she answered a question correctly or incorrectly is provided immediately following the completion of a question.
For the entire practice, the learner can, for example, retrieve information about their learning time.
Rankings are also possible, if desired.
When selecting a course element, coaches can see from a list which participants have already started practicing or how far they are in practicing.
Since no manual evaluations are carried out by coaches, no feedbacks by coaches are available.
Comparison: Test - Self-test - Practice
| Course element Test | Course element Self-test | Course element Practice |
|---|---|---|
| with score | with score | without score |
| visible for coaches | not visible for coaches | visible levels learning status per level focus set by the participant |
| 1 test learning resource | 1 test learning resource | multiple learning resources shares from the question bank filter with use of taxonomy |
Further information
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The course element Practice