Certification track

[Mark Stenersen]

Hi

New question regarding what is called a certification track.

We have a research project connected to our course iKomp (Norwegian title for our Information literacy Course) and would like to set up a duplicate course with a qualifying condition for access to the final exam.

In our running course we have 4 modules. Each consisting of between 4 and 6 sections. This is an open ended course – so no end date. Students can take it whenever they want and spend as much time they want on it. Each section has a "Test yourself" component to end the section, but we have have not added these to the over all grading. Based on a research article (Admiraal, Wilfried, Huisman, Bart, & Van de Ven, Maarten. (2014). Self- and Peer Assessment in Massive Open Online Courses. International Journal of Higher Education, 3(3), 119-128.) we are interested in testing if in fact creating a certification track has a positive impact on user results. 

Problem is: how can we create an exam with a qualifying entrance grade accumulated by grading our test yourself tests?

EKS: As a student I have to do or pass all test in all sections to gain access to the final exam (not necessarily based on grade, could be a done/not done also)

Anyone??

Have a nice weekend all :)

MS

[Juan Camilo Montoya]

Hello Mark, 

I see these 2 alternatives, for you to try:

1) using the "subsections prerequistes" feature to restrict access to your "test yourself subsection"  and concatenate each subsection in order, so, test 1 is a prerequisite of test 2, which in turn is prerequisite for test 3, and that one is prerequisite for test 4, and finally that one is the prerequisite of your finale exam.

2) (probably better in terms of flexibility), use eduNEXT's Flow control Xblock to restrict the access to the final exam, by adding a condition that requires the learner to have answered all the problems in all 4 tests before being able to view the final exam.   If you go for this alternative, and need assistance with the flow control xblock, please let me know.

all best, 

Juan Camilo Montoya

[Mark Stenersen]

Hi Juan, and thank you for your reply

I will take  look at the xBlock you mention since I can not find the subsection prerequisites function you mention in our install.

Will ask further if I have more questions

Thank you

MS