Nathan, I do not know of anyone who has used the system for in-class polling, though some of us think about it periodically.
There are three issues that could be issues as far as I have thought about it: * There is some caching of parameters, so a quick change of parameters might not take hold for as long as ten minutes, at least in older times. * It can take a bit of time to get results as an instructor, especially as the term progresses and the course becomes more loaded with evaluation data. * If your class is very large, there can potentially be load issues, just as one needs to be a little careful with exams directly on LON-CAPA. Hope this helps. It may be that someone has found some workarounds for the issues. I would certainly be interested in hearing. As for OpenStax, we are also using OpenStax for both the Algebra-based and the Calc-based sequences. Are your problems published systemwide and if so, what is the folder? Hon-Kie has the problems from the Algebra-based phyiscs text coded down at Florida State. Later, Mark > On Aug 9, 2019, at 7:53 AM, Moore, Nathan T <nmo...@winona.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have used loncapa for University Physics homework assignments for a few > semesters. I have coded in a fair number of openstax problems. > > Locally, a number of people use Top Hat for in-class polling > (Think-pair-share) questions. Think Eric Mazur, “Peer Instruction”. The > format is something like 3-5 conceptual-ish homework questions that students > answer, discuss, answer again, discuss again, etc. > > This isn’t the standard way that I use loncapa and I’m wondering if loncapa > has something like an in-class polling preset? Do any of you use the system > in this way? > > Nathan > > > --- --- --- --- > Nathan Moore, PhD > Professor, Physics Department > Winona State University > Winona, Minnesota > > _______________________________________________ > LON-CAPA-users mailing list > LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.lon-capa.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Flon-capa-users&data=02%7C01%7Clucasm%40ohio.edu%7Cc144b90ec4b5411635ba08d71cc07063%7Cf3308007477c4a70888934611817c55a%7C0%7C0%7C637009485153266195&sdata=kji2OoIGXoQBO3%2FnGHp2k1976tDc4BEI3agkcn6jjd8%3D&reserved=0 -- Mark Lucas email: luc...@ohio.edu 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users
