Learner Experience This guide is not meant to be a training resource, but rather a simple path for demonstrating various features of BrainHoney. To start this process, login with the following user credentials: Username: student1 Password: password There are an additional 19 students to play with scattered across three sections of Geometry. These are student2 through student20. All have a password of password. Below is the home screen of the learner. B My Courses is a listing of all course sections which this user is currently enrolled in. Clicking on a title will open that course C Announcements lists all announcements from any teacher or domain. Clicking on the Announcements heading will open another larger view of available announcements. D Due Soon lists any assignments that have a due date. Clicking on the Due Soon header will open another view where assignments be narrowed by date. Clicking on any item will go to that assignment in the respective course. E Personal Information allows for the changing of passwords, text messaging and email preferences, etc. F Menus allow for the user to navigate to various parts of the system quickly. Clicking on the Menu Name will change focus to the desired feature while retaining focus on the current course. Using the drop downs allow for changing course focus at the same time.
Open Geometry Course This is the basic view of any course in the system. B Table of Contents (TOC) allows the user to navigate around the course. BH will always return to the last location upon opening. Double click on folders to expose additional content C Document window is used to display the various content of the course. This may include, but not limited to, HTML, PDF, Flash, etc. This content can be created externally or using the authoring tools provided by BH. D Grading Information is displayed in the TOC. Green checkmark indicates that this content item as been reviewed for a specified length of time (set by the author). Scores can be listed in points, percentages, or letter grades. Red values indicate a score less than threshold mastery. Blue return arrow indicates a retry for that assignment. Document icon indicates that something has been submitted but not yet graded. E Course Navigation arrows allow for easy navigation within side the course; navigating up and down the TOC content items.
Submit a document (remember item for later grading) This is the basic view of any course in the system. B Assignments are identified by the icon in the TOC. Open item 1_12 to review the assignment instructions. C Click Open to bring up the submission dialog. D The learner can type and/or attach their response. E Save / Submit Clicking save will store your response on the server for later editing. Clicking Submit will submit your assignment for grading. Time stamps are applied and another submission is not allowed until the teacher activates it during grading. Repeat this process until comfortable with submitting assignments. Item 1_11 using a PDF template as an example of how an assignment would use a template to request very specific feedback in a particular format and document type.
Take an assessment (remember item for later grading) Assessments are identified in the TOC by their icon. B Click on 1_09 in the TOC. C Summary detail is present which normally will include instructions, timing events, etc. D Click the Start button to begin. Confirm the dialog box to continue. Once you start an assessment, you can not leave it or restart it without instructor setting retry.
There are many different types of assessment questions. This specific exam as multiple choice and essay questions. B The correct answers are marked with a. at the end of each response option. This will allow you to either pass or fail depending upon what you want to review. C Statistical information is available here. D Click the Submit button to finish. If this is a timed assessment, it will automatically submit when the time expires. Because this assessment has essay questions, the system will not automatically return the grade until the teacher has graded the essay components. Complete as many quizzes as you like.
Take a formative assessment (Credit Recovery) Formative assessments, or pretests, allow the learning to test out of aspects of the course they have shown master level understanding of. B Open Module II, Assignments and Assessments, and take 2_00 Module 2 Pretest following the examples above. C To demonstrate formative assessment, you must answer the first 5 questions correctly. Select the answer that has the. at the end of the line this identifies the correct answer. This is done solely for the purposes of answer the question correctly and is not part of the system! You can use one of the other student logins to experience with choose the wrong answer. You do not need to complete the rest of the questions. D Click the Submit button to score the assessment.
D Congratulations message appears informing the learning that they have successfully mastered the objectives for this material. E Excused Items Based upon the alignment of objectives, content, and assessments, BH know which content items to exclude from this learners path through the course. F Show excused items allows the learning to see content that they have master. G Review links allow the learning to see the items in the course that support each assessment. The learner can use these review links (enable by the course author) to go back and study items that they did not do well on.
View Menu Explanation The menu system is an easy way to navigate between courses and functions. B Clicking on the down arrow next to any menu options allows the learning to switch to a new course for the desired functionality. In this case, the learner wants to view the Marine Biology course, Mr. Webster s section.
Grades Menu Explanation The Grades page gives a more complete picture of how the student is doing. B Indicates the current percentage complete and the score earned through that portion of the course. C Indicates the current points / percentage earned for any category of assignments. D Indicates whether an assignment or assessment is late (Due column with red date) or was submitted late (Submitted column with red date). If the learner hovers, it will indicate how late it is. E What if calculator is explained below. F Learning objective mastery allows the learning to see their progress relative to objective mastery.
The What if calculator allows the learner to determine their own final grade by supplying the expected grades on any future assignment, thus calculating an expected final grade. From the Grades page, the learner will click on the What if Calculator link. B Fill in the expected grades. C Click the Recalculate button. D Highlight indicates the potential score and completion percentage. Click the Close button to return to the normal grade page.
Open Enrollment Target End Date BH supports ranged as well as open enrollment sections. Open enrollments allow the student to select their own end date, automatically adjusting all the due dates in that section based upon days remaining, item weight, category weight, and possible points. Target dates can be set earlier than the required completion date, but not later. B Choose the Grades page for the Marine Biology Course. C Click Change. D Choose a new target end date and click OK. E Due dates will automatically adjust as described above.
Demonstrate Learning Objective Mastery The Objective Mastery page shows improvement over time based upon assessment and assignment grades aligned to learning outcomes or objectives. B Click on the Objective menu to select the objectives for the desired course. This data may or may not be present depending on timing. This web service to update this information only runs every twelve hours. So if there isn t any data, come back again later. C Formative assessment (Prestests) will appear in the first column if they are part of the course structure. These assessments generate the baseline and usually reflect lower scores as learning as not yet taken place. D Mastery data will appear in the second column if formative assessments are use, otherwise there will only be one column representing Mastery data. This bucket is filled based upon the scores achieved in any assignment or assessment aligned to the objective. E Review links are available and will expand to show the content items aligned to the specific objective.
Demonstrate Contact Instructor The Communication menu has several options, some of which can be controlled by the site administrator when full access to BH is licensed. e Mail is all out bound to the e mail address associated with the user. B Click on the Communication menu and select the section which is taught by the instructor you want to e mail. C Currently only outbound email is supported. Students can only email instructors. Instructors can email anyone on the roster. D Click send to send the email message.