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Brooks/Cole Assessment is a browser-based testing, tutorial, and
course management system that uses algorithmically generated, machine
graded, free-response mathematics. The system can live on either
a customer’s local area network server or be accessed over
the web on Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning servers at no extra cost.
All course management and assessment will run via a browser interface
that will call The Learning Equation‘ content from a local
area network server, or the hard drive or CD-ROM drive on the local
client computer. Easy-to-use, versatile, efficient, and powerful,
Brooks/Cole Assessment will provide the means by which adopting
customers can more meaningfully assess student understanding of
basic skills and manage and report on student progress. Instructors
can create problems, practice, tests, and quizzes, and publish them
in print, email, or on line (both network and internet formats).
Brooks/Cole Assessment includes the following modules: Activities,
Assignments, Grade Book (including the ability to create reports),
Testing, Customized Curriculum, Communications, and Explore.
Activities
The Activities module allows instructors and course administrators
to create syllabi, broadcast important course information and announcements,
and display general institution information.
Assignments
Instructors can list assignments, including practice, quizzes, and
tests, along with due dates, with hot links for students to use
as a guide to their instruction. As instructors pick and choose
the chapters and lessons they want to use, this Customized Curriculum
(see below) will appear in the Assignments module page.
 Grade
Book
Easily customizable, the Grade Book allows instructors and course
administrators to track student progress and report on individual
students, sections, or entire courses. In addition to tracking student
progress and grades from quizzes and tests, instructors can also
receive time-on-task information. Students may access their own
progress via username and password authentication. The system allows
for the importing of class rosters (if that data is in comma- or
tab-delimited format) and the ability to add, modify, or void single
student records.
Testing
Easily create problems, tests, quizzes, and practice and publish
them in print, email, or on line (both network and internet formats).
Create different forms, scramble items, add headers and footers—you
have complete control. If work is done on line, the machine-graded,
free-response mathematics allows students to enter actual mathematical
answers (using a superset of calculator syntax) to a nearly unlimited
number of algorithmically-generated problems. As students input
the calculator syntax, the system displays the correct mathematical
notation simultaneously so students can see if the mathematics looks
correct. Problems are automatically graded and the results automatically
flow to a grade book for tracking.
Customized
Curriculum
Instructors and course administrators can pick and choose only those
chapters and lessons that they want their students to work through,
for complete control over the scope of instruction. The Customized
Curriculum will then be displayed in the Assignments module.
Communications
Using the Communications module, instructors and course administrators
can send messages to individual students, sections, or entire courses.
Using the email client resident on the client computer, students
can send messages to instructors or course administrators.
Explore
The Explore module provides access for both students and instructors
to all of The Learning Equation‘ course content, as opposed
to the Assignments module which directs students to specific chapters
and sections as defined by the instructor.
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