Oversight

LSS tracks the amount of time users spend on a page and some of their activities.

Which students read the material?  How long?   

Learning should be evident by learners spending less time to accomplish a task.

Time spent reviewing can be correlated with outcomes. 

This system is heavily influenced by the programmed learning approach pioneered by

For weaker leaners the system can make rich material from previous years available.  Not all material because that would be imtimidating and worse than useless.  Material tuned by teachers over years to what the learner is trying to express.  

An example is markup for a missing article.  The reference contains some hints for median learners who understand the basic ideas but are having some trouble applying in this particupal instance.  It is too hard for a weak learner because they stopped learning years ago.

teacher should be able to provide rich feedback i.e.

circle an error "missing article, see page 17 of the English handout"

sometimes rewrite a whole sentence, keep the original for comparison, and provide references 

Goals

1. provide timely quality feedback
2. evaluate student's writing
3. present and encourage best practices
4. minimize teacher's time required to provide quality feedback

learner's can use the integrated LanguageTool to help them detect problems

a teacher will be able to create/modify/activate grammar rules:

Web tech enables many different testing strategies.  e.g.

• several thrity second tests in class automatically graded with immediate feedback
• pop tests during study

Multiple choice is limited but easy to automate and feedback is timely.  Short time frames with no notice and random order will mitigate cheating.

Parents should have the ability to easily see their child's progress:  grade, attendance, class participation, materials ...  The teacher could also provide feedback only to the parent.

Parents will need an account bound the their child's account.

One approach is to send an email to the parent with a link.  Another would be to provide an link on the child's account that the parent could use to create an account though this would be gamed.