SCOPE Systematized Contributions for Original Problems and Exercises

1. SCOPESystematized Contributions for Original Problems and Exercises Quantitative Reasoning with Current Issues May 8, 2012, for Cengage

2. CS615 Presents… Scope • Overall Goal • General community for quantitative reasoning instructors to post meaningful content for each other. • Instructor-to-instructor interaction, students can browse. • Quantitative Reasoning social network. • Users: Instructors, primarily. • What’s Being Posted? • Exercises based on current news. • Assignments. • Usage Goals • Organized, specifically searchable content. • Capacity for posts to earn merit. • Multiple methods of posting and downloading material. • Inspiration drawn from tech community websites of Stack Exchange. • What We Have • Interface only! • Our summary view of what would be ~20 screens • We will present 5.

3. CS615 Presents… Scope • Response Thus Far • Positive! • Shown to 3 instructors who provided feedback and are eager to use it. • What We’ll Show You • Home Page • Exercise Listing • Searching • Building an Assignment • Voting • Create Exercise • Exercise Preview • Instructor Profile • Personal Info • Assignments Posted • About

4. SCOPE – home page design

5. Home Page – Info FOR SEARCHING 3 Annotations Search Features • Tags • Ratings • Full text search • Sort by- Date Added- Top Feeds- Hot Feeds- With Problems- With Solutions • Posted by 4 2 1 5

6. Home page - Header and footer 1 1 4 2 3 • Header and footer • Images • SCOPE • CENGAGE • WEB ASSIGN • Tabs • Exercises • Display most recently created Excercises • Add Exercises • Add new Exercises, post problems and provide solutions • Tags • Display all available tags • Users • Display all registered users 1 1

7. Home page - Exercise listing section

8. Home page - Exercise listing section - In Detail comments title content To cart view Rating date Difficulty Tags owner Q/A • Exercise specific • a- Exercise Title b- Exercise content c- Modified date • d- Problems / Solutions • Statistical information • Number of Comments Number of Views • User related • Posted by Add to cart • Other information • Difficulty Level Rating Tags

9. Home page - Exercise listing section - In Detail Sort • Sort facility By default, Exercises sorted by date created. Problems Solutions Rating Comments Views • Exercises Per Page Per page

10. HOME Page – Voting Annotations • Voting Section • Comments • Views • Rating 1

11. Comment Page Annotations TBD – Screen where anyone can read comments and logged in instructors can enter them and vote.

12. Home Page – building an assignment Annotations • Add Exercises to the Shopping Cart (free) • When don, Visit Cart 1

13. Shopping Cart Annotations TBD On Shopping Cart: • Save Selections (as a named assignment) • Point Student to it • Download (as PDF, word, or TEX) • Revise (delete, or return to list for more shopping) On Profile Page: • Assignments Saved (old and new) • Edit Assignments

14. Create An exercise 1 ANNOTATIONS • Title • Tags • Rating by Owner • Routine • Worthy • Complex • Artificial • Upload 2 3 4

15. Create An exercise - Continued ANNOTATIONS • Raw Material • LaTeX formatting • Add Image • Problems • LaTeX formatting (optional) • Add Image • Solutions • LaTeX formatting (optional) • Add Image 1 2 3

16. Create An exercise - Continued ANNOTATIONS • Notes • Buttons • Discard • Add to Cart • Preview • Submit 1 2

17. Preview ANNOTATIONS • Title • Raw Material • Problems • Solutions • Tags • Owner Rating • Viewer Rating • Author • Date Created • Buttons • Edit • Submit • Add to Cart • Save as draft • Cancel

18. Time for Questions

19. User Profile - information a b c e d • Exercise Tab Annotations • User identification line contains: • User ID • Indicates the user is an instructor • Reputation earned by • Creating exercises, questions or answers • Community voting • Default Editor • Web text editor • TEX • Others • Ability to edit or delete the profile • General profile information contains picture, email, website, real name , join date and an area where user can describe him or herself

20. User Profile – Tabs Annotations • Exercise Tab • Display exercises created by the user, exercises have the same format as on the home page • Assignments Tab • Displays assignments the user has created • Statistics Tab • Displays the number of exercises, questions and answers created by the user, reputation events • Tags Tab • Displays all the tags used and the number of times used • Exercise Tab 1 2 3 4

21. User Profile - Assignment Annotations • Built from exercises selected by the shopping cart • Assignments can be downloaded in PDF, Word , plain text with or without Problems and Solutions • Users can create assignments and give them descriptions and group exercises within them • Exercises assigned to an assignment can be displayed/hidden inline by pressing the Show/Hide details link • Assignments and exercises can be deleted by using the trash can icon. • Exercise Tab 4 1 2 3 4 5

22. About Page 2 • Short description of the project and release. • Maintains the uniform design of the site. • Who are we working for? • Who made it happen? • What technologies we have used? • Mockflow wireframing tool • Dropbox (to sync different files) • Powerpoint (to present it to you) 1 3 4 2

23. SCOPE – home page design