Teacher Classroom Support Requirements

Purpose

The purpose of the Teacher Classroom support tool is to allow teachers in real-time to communicate with students and view their project progress. it will also allow teachers to assess and comment on students work.

Priority levels

  1. must be done for Hilary run (students learn and produce work that she can grade)
  2. important to be done for Hilary run (for us to test new features that we think will be vital)
  3. nice to be done for Hilary run
  4. no point in doing in for Hilary run
  5. way down the road

Requirements for this can be broken down into a couple of categories:

Offerings

Requirement Offerings are agnostic to the tool that makes them
Use Case Run (offering) is a SAIL entity, not WISE or TELS. Thus we cannot depend on TELS design features like a web site.
Scope SAIL, p1
Requirement Offering entity specification
Use Case We need to have something that is an offering. (see SAIL Offering Requirements)
Scope SAIL, p1
Requirement Create a run
Use Case A WISE run is the WISE version of SAIL offering. From a collection of available projects a teacher selects one to run. The teacher goes through a sequence of steps to prepare the run for their classroom,period, etc...similar to the wise run setup. This scenario can take place either in the classroom or outside the classroom, e.g. at the teachers home, in between periods, etc...
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Specify users in run
Use Case When users register for an account currently in wise they associate themselves with a teacher via a teacher code and a period. When a teacher creates a run and associates the run with a set of periods, the student will see the available runs in their student portal if they are contained in that set of chosen periods. Users should be able to associate themselves with multiple teachers.
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Test run as a fake ephemeral student
Use Case Teacher tries out the project as if she were a student. "Run project as Student".
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p3

Student Management

Requirement WISE-2 accounts used in WISE-3 workgroups
Use Case Student has a WISE-2 account and wants to run a WISE-3 project
Scope WISE-3, p3
Requirement Manage student groups of a curnit offering. This includes creating new groups, editing and deleting existing ones. Groups can be setup and changed during, before and after a run. This scenario can take place either in the classroom or outside the classroom, e.g. at the teachers home, in between periods, etc...
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p3
Requirement Manage periods
Use Case Move students between periods. This scenario happens outside of a run and either in the classroom or outside the classroom, e.g. at the teachers home, in between periods, etc...
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p3
Requirement Modifying student accounts
Use Case Have the ability to fix usernames and change passwords. The ideal scenario is similar to the way a teacher can do it in Wise now. Teachers have the option of looking at a class list and changing individual students logins and passwords from that. Also they have the option of changing students passwords in batch. One feature that would be useful would be the ability to assign a common password to all the students in a class.
Comments 8/12/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p3

Teacher-Student Communication

Requirement Freeze and resume students screens
Use Case When the teacher wants to get the classes attention the teacher will have the ability to freeze or stop them from progressing in the current project. This scenario takes place during a run.
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p2
Requirement Send a text message to an individual students screen
Use Case From the tool a teacher will be able to text message a student. Once the message is sent it will popup on the students screen interrupting their current work. This scenario takes place during a run. This scenario takes place during a run.
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p2
Requirement Send a text message to all the students screens in the classroom
Use Case From the tool a teacher will be able to text message the entire class. Once the message is sent it will popup on all student screens that are running the project interrupting their current work. This scenario takes place during a run.
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p2

Teacher Assessment of Student Work

Requirement see students' progress
Use Case The teacher will be able to see where the students are in a project. Similar to a progress bar. This scenario can take place either in the classroom or outside the classroom, e.g. at the teachers home, in between periods, etc...
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p2
Requirement see students' work in real-time (synchronously)
Use Case The teacher will be able to see the results of the students work in a project. Teachers would see icon representations of students in the classroom. The icon representations would show current activity, current step, step type. The teacher would have to ability to click on a students icon and choose to view their current work or all of their work. This scenario takes place during a run.
Use Case 2 When a teacher chooses view current work, for instance a drawing step, they can see the cursor moving in realtime. This shows they are thinking and being active. This scenario takes place during a run.
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p2
Requirement see one student's work afterwards (asynchronously)
Use Case The teacher will be able to see the results of the students work in a project. The teacher will have the ability to see the students work or all the classes work. This scenario can take place either in the classroom or outside the classroom, e.g. at the teachers home, in between periods, etc...
Scope WISE-3, p1 (OWL-116@issues)
Requirement Export work to spreadsheet
Use Case The teacher will have the ability to export the students or classes work to a file that can be viewed with Microsoft Excel or Open Office. This is convenient for grading.
Scope WISE-3, p2
Requirement Print out student work report (across students, by step)
Use Case Teacher prints out all the student work and grades it with a pen in her backyard. Teacher grades all step1 for every student, and then all step2, etc.
Scope WISE-3, p2

Online grading (optional)

Requirement Grade by step
Use Case For each step, see all student work and assign grade
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Grade weights
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Setting default grade weights
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Generate a printable student grade report
Use Case The teacher will be able to produce a printable grade report from a students work.
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Generate a printable class grade report
Use Case The teacher will be able to produce a printable grade report from the classes grade work.
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Student sees grades
Use Case Student comes back and gets a report of their performance on the work
Scope WISE-3, p4
Requirement Add comments to a student's work
Use Case The teacher will be able to add comments to the students completed work for the student to see.This scenario can take place either in the classroom or outside the classroom, e.g. at the teachers home, in between periods, etc...
Comments 8/11/05: use case based on D.Kirkpaticks comments
Scope WISE-3, p4

Ideas for the future

Requirement Aggregate data input by students and send it back in aggregate form
Use Case Students input a little but get to work with a lot
Scope WISE-3, p5

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  1. Aug 11, 2005

    Anthony Perritano says:

    8/11/05 From my conversation with D. Kirkpatick he clearing indicated that teach...

    8/11/05 From my conversation with D. Kirkpatick he clearing indicated that teachers love the webbased student/classroom management portal. It allows teachers at their convenience(at home,not on a school computer,etc..) to manage their classroom/runs with little setup. additionally, a classroom teacher tool would be more like a "run tool". Meaning its functionality would be simple, show the status/progress of student work during the run.