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Specification of applications: Deliverable DWP431
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Abstract :
The system specified in this document presents applications of the LEVERAGE system running on workstations which do not involve system functionalities.
These functionalities are split into 2 groups :
- functionalities which can be called by the basic LEVERAGE application, such as material preparation tools, help, exercises and glossary-dictionary. These are add-ons to the basic LEVERAGE application which increase the users field of action.
- statistics used by system advisors for evaluation.
Material preparation tools are a set of applications that allow the LEVERAGE users to assemble course materials. In the LEVERAGE system, the language teaching material includes tasks and a glossary. Both the glossary and the tasks are in the form of HTML pages. The tasks have links to the glossary and the glossary itself has a module for searching entries. The Multimedia elements are incorporated by links to the HTML pages of the glossary. Hence an easy editing method is made available to teachers.
A Help system will be implemented to assist students and teachers using the LEVERAGE system during the trials. This system includes general help for the LEVERAGE architecture, and help for each application.
Statistics in LEVERAGE are needed in order to evaluate the system used by students. Thus, the set of collected information must be clearly defined in order to give evaluators a good basis for evaluating the system.
The exercise module manages the LEVERAGE language course exercises. Exercises are associated with tasks. The function of an exercise is to rehearse or to test understanding or knowledge of a particular subject in a task. A custom format is used to provide a means to manipulate and generate questions, answers and scores in an exercise.
Authors: Eddy Spreeuwers, Laurent Le Gruiec.
Date: 31.08.1996
Contents:
- SYSTEM OVERVIEW
1.1 - Aim of the system
1.2 - General constraints
1.2.1 Material preparation tools
1.2.2 Multimedia glossary and dictionary
1.2.3 Help
1.2.4 Statistics
1.2.5 Exercises
- FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
2.1 - Inputs and Outputs
2.2 - Functional description of system components
2.2.1 Material preparation tools
2.2.2 Multimedia glossary and dictionary
2.2.3 Help
2.2.4 Statistics
2.2.5 Exercises
- ENVIRONMENT DESCRIPTION
APPENDICES
- LIST OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE TOOLS
- DEFINITION OF DATA FORMAT BY ACTIVITY FOR STATISTICS
2.1 Media player
2.2 Video conferencing tool
2.3 Multimedia glossary and dictionary
2.4 Data conferencing
2.5 Help
2.6 Session management
2.7 Exercises
2.8 Server
List of figures:
FIGURE 1 SKETCH OF THE MMG GUI.
FIGURE 2 EXAMPLE OF EXPLANATION IN THE MMG
FIGURE 3 STATISTICS ANALYSIS TOOL
FIGURE 4 THE EXERCISE APPLICATION GUI.
FIGURE 5 THE EXERCISE TREE STRUCTURE
FIGURE 6 TAB SHEET FOR THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION TYPE
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