Lack of automated system response after passed exam

[Mark Stenersen]

"Automated system response after passed exam"

Problem

In most other MOOC's that I have worked with i.e. Coursera, Canvas, WP Courseware just to mention a few, there are built in system responses to a range of user-progress events. The problem reveal itself especially at the end of the exam in openedx – there is absolutely no system response. You can scroll up the page and see that you have passed by looking at you scores (38/40 points), but this is not very user friendly in any way. In fact, our course iKomp at UiT the Arctic University of Norway has only one reoccurring complaint from our students: "Where is my course certificate?"

The iKomp course has now 4500 enrolled students and almost 1700 of these have taken and passed the exam. Of these we have 400 questions regarding this issue.

Solution

Built in system for such events that admins can customise to desired events such as an ending module quiz, final exam etc. This can be implemented as a unit-like section that is revealed after checking your answers or as a popup or a modal dialog containing a message, picture and linke to progress, final grade and directly to your passing exam course certificate.

Question

- Is it a conscious design choice – not to have this in Openedx? If so, what are the arguments against this?

- Are we the only ones questioning the lack of this kind of system responses?

- Have anyone done something about this? Like an XBlock or like?

Glad to hear from anyone and all

Cheers for Openedx from

Course team iKomp

[Andy Armstrong]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the suggestion. This is great feedback, and very much in line with what we've been discussing internally. My team is working on an improved welcome message which we were imagining would be built as a unit-like way much as you suggest. Here's our current design:

https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LEARNER/Architectural+design+for+welcome+messages

There have also been discussions about changing course updates to be milestone-based to better support self-paced courses. We are thinking that this would be a generalization of the welcome message support, where 'joined course' is just another milestone.

I'd love your feedback on the design we are proposing. In fact, your use case (and others) would make a great addition to this proposal.

 - Andy

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