Classroom Management
Easily and accurately manage your classroom environment with this software suite. Its modular design allows educators to compose and store items in an item bank, generate and score tests, track classroom attendance, create reports, conduct surveys and much more!
TeachOn is a proven PC-based software suite that allows individual teachers, professors, and instructors to manage their own classroom environment. It is modular in design and allows educators to easily generate and score tests, track classroom attendance, create reports, and conduct surveys.
TeachOn is a PC-based software suite that allows individual teachers, professors, and instructors to manage their classroom environment. It is modular in design and allows educators to generate and score tests, track classroom attendance, create reports, and conduct surveys.
TeachOn is designed to work in harmony with its larger counterpart, TestOnWeb and ScoreOnWeb and. While ScoreOnWeb facilitates the controlled scoring of openended items on standardized assessments, TeachOn allows individual educators to take advantage of ScoreOnWeb’s “score-from-image” abilities on nonstandardized tests that the instructors create themselves.
While TeachOn is perfectly capable of operating on a standalone PC, the system has the ability to take advantage of online technology. If the school or university is capable of providing basic internet hosting services, then the instructors can score open-ended items and view reports through a standard Web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. This allows teachers the flexibility to work from any location that provides internet services including libraries, Internet cafés, private homes, etc.
The online functionality of TeachOn can be used to allow parents to access their children’s grade reports through a standard Web browser.
Design Philosophy
TeachOn was designed to be an easy-to-use application for individual instructors at grade school through university level to manage their classroom environment. Our name, “TeachOn” reflects our design philosophy; Simple, Safe, Smart, and Score.
Simple
The TeachOn user interface is designed using the Microsoft Office User Interface, which means that the “look and feel” of the software will be familiar to anyone who uses Office products like MS Word, Excel or Outlook. This allows instructors to start using the system with very minimum training, feeling comfortable and confident in its use.
Secure
TeachOn is designed to be trusted. The algorithms used to capture data from the printed exam form have been constructed to prevent student data from being misinterpreted. Teachers using TeachOn can expect the highest degree of accuracy. Once test data is collected, it is stored securely and can only be accessed by providing the appropriate password. In addition, by having digitalized copies of all the exam pages for each student, the risk of losing or damaging any copy is eliminated, keeping the original documents safe.
Flexible
TeachOn understands the testing environment. Teachers can change how test answers are scored post-scanning, and the system will automatically recalculate the reports. Its user interface allows for cut-and-paste features to make test creation easy and straightforward. TeachOn uniquely identifies every copy of all the exams with reliable elements, making it possible to identify them after been scanned, linking all the information to each student, increasing accuracy by eliminating tasks created by manual data entry, all while automatically generating reports.
Assessments
TeachOn is a testing solution. The software includes everything needed to compose items, create exams, print the tests on a standard printer using plain paper, controlling the scanning process of completed exams, and creating reports at the student, class, and school levels.
The Process
The Score Module is the heart of TeachOn. This is the component that allows instructors to create class rosters, generate test items and exams, print exams on paper, scan the completed tests, and grade open-ended items.
Classroom management
The Score Module allows instructors to create class rosters. Individual student information can include teacher-defined fields such as names, student numbers, class level, gender, age, etc. Including this information in the database greatly enhances the reporting options available to the teacher. For example, it is TeachOn Score Module possible for TeachOn to report on a given subset of students – maybe all male students who are 15 years old – if this type of information is available in the student database.
Item and Test Creation
TeachOn includes an item banking function that allows instructors to create both “closed” and “open” items. Closed items are often constructed as multiple choice, true/false, yes/no types of questions. Students typically answer these questions by coloring-in a “bubble” on the printed test sheet. Open items are also known as “constructed response” or “subjective” questions. These types of questions typically require students to demonstrate their work by writing essays or showing the steps involved in solving a math problem. The Score Module’s graphical user interface makes it easy to create either type of item. The instructor enters the question body and is able to “drag and drop” text or images from any Windows application. Once the individual items are created, the instructor can group them together to form an exam. TeachOn is smart enough to allow a great deal of randomization within an assessment. For example, it is possible to automatically customize each exam that is printed by changing the order in which items appear on the test, the order in which choices are presented, and even randomly selecting a given number of questions from a large question pool. The ability to randomize questions and answers is a proven technique to reduce student cheating. The instructor also uses the Score Module to define how each item will be scored. There are many options available when it comes to creating the scoring definition. For example, it is possible to assign different weights to items so that harder items are worth more points than easy ones. Instructors can also create rules so that a particular item (or items) must be answered correctly to pass the exam, regardless of the overall percentage of correct answers on the exam. It is possible to penalize a student for selecting an incorrect response, or make them chose all possible correct answers from a given list of responses. TeachOn also allows question group conditions to be defined such as Group A requires 60% correct to pass the overall exam, while Group B requires 70% correct.
Printing the Exam
Once the questions are defined, the instructor enters an examination name, date, scoring algorithm, class, and desired quantity of test versions. The tests are then printed on a standard laser printer on plain paper and distributed to each student in the class. As each test is being printed, a unique binary identifier is printed on the bottom of each sheet of paper. This identifier is used during the scanning process to link the page to a unique student, identify the test version, and describe each individual page number within the assessment. Each examination page is also printed with four “anchor points” that allow the image of the scanned document to be electronically stretched and compressed to adjust for paper and printing irregularities. This helps to ensure accurate data collection. Each page is printed with “timing marks” on the left side of the document. These marks help the system to identify the position of individual answer “bubbles” in the document. They also help define the beginning and ending of subjective write-in areas.
Scanning Process
Once the assessments have been printed and distributed to the students, the paper documents are collected and scanned on an image scanner. This specialized scanning equipment resolves the “bubble” answers and creates a digital snapshot image clip of any open-ended items that the exam may have included.
Exam Scoring
Multiple choice-type items are scored automatically as the forms are being scanned. Open-ended items, however, must be graded by the instructor. Image clips of students’ written responses are stored on the PC’s hard drive. When the instructor is ready to grade these items, he is shown image clips of the students’ work and can assign a score from a pull-down list. The next student’s image is automatically displayed and the process continues until all of the subjective items have been scored. If TeachOn is webenabled, these clips can be viewed and scored through a Web browser.
Modules
Attendances
Your classroom tracking in the most simple way
One of the daily chores for many instructors is to take attendance for their classes. TeachOn’ Attendance Module helps automate this process and makes roll-call very fast and extremely accurate To use this module, the instructor must first enter the class roster into the student database component of the Score Module.
On a weekly basis, the instructor can select to print an attendance sheet for each class using a standard laser printer and plain white paper.
This attendance sheet will show a column listing each student’s name, and several additional columns showing each class meeting. The instructor can use a pen or pencil to check “present” or “absent” for each student.
The instructor scans the class attendance sheet at the end of each week. Once the attendance database is updated, the instructor can produce reports showing which students were in class and which weren’t.
Attendance reports are available any time on demand. They can also be generated automatically at the end of the month, semester, or trimester.
Surveys
Generate real time reports and follow up activities whenever and from wherever you are
Instructor feedback is an important component in any teaching environment.
The Survey Module produces standard reports in both printed and .pdf formats. In addition, data can be exported directly into MS Excel for custom reporting.
Reports
Generate real time reports and follow up activities whenever and from wherever you are
The Report Module produces many different types of reports. Item analysis reports show the validity or invalidity of individual test items. Student reports show how individuals performed on a particular assessment, or how the student is progressing on all assessments throughout a course. Class reports show how a particular group of students is performing
The standard reports included in the Report Module are:
- Subjects Reports
- Students Reports
- Classroom Level Reports
- Grade Level Reports
- Item Analysis
Because the Score Module database is created on a SQL database, it is also possible for customers to use third-party tools like SPSS or MS Excel to create customized reports of their own design.