ModuMath Student Screens

After a student starts the program, they log in with an ID number which the instructor or administrator has set up in advance. Students cannot self enroll but we often put in a generic student ID that anyone can use to access the program and try it out or to work with a specific skill.

Depending on how the student is enrolled, they will either be taken to their current lesson that was assigned either by the instructor or the placement test, or if they were given open access, they will have a list of all lessons to choose from. If this was the first time the student has logged on and they were assigned to take a placement test, the student would be taken immediately to the placement test. The placement test will spit them out when they have failed to answer a number of questions correctly and will then make lesson assignments. It will not give the complete assessment test battery, which could be up to 60 questions, unless the student is successful in answering questions correctly. The following screen shows an example of someone who tested out of the first 10 chapters and was assigned to start in chapter 11.

The “Menu” button will take students to the following screen. This is also the first screen they would see after logging in if their lessons are assigned. From the menu, they can either study their current lesson or take the test. If they have been given an assigned lesson, they can go back and review earlier lessons but they cannot move forward until they have passed the lesson test with a passing score set by the instructor. Students can also check on their progress at any time.

Most lessons have a number of sub sections that the student can choose. The program does not bookmark a students place in a lesson, but a student notes what section they were in when they exit, they can return back to that section fairly easily.

The first screen of a lesson will list skills the student needs to be successful in the lesson and also the objectives for the lesson.

The lessons themselves are made up of two main components. The first is the video lesson presented on a screen like the one below. Unfortunately, my screen capture utility would not capture the video on the screen so it is showing a blank screen. The scroll bar at the bottom of the screen allows the student to review or advance through the lesson with a pause button on the left. Additional buttons on the bottom allow the student to go to the main menu, bring up a calculator shown later, replay the video, or skip the video.

After a video segment of a lesson, the computer will then present a comprehension question to see if the student is following the lesson and understands the skill. In the following screen, an incorrect answer was given. The computer then responds with how the problem was solved. The student again has choices on the bottom of the screen. When the “Continue” button is pushed, the computer will either present another similar problem or will go back to the video to ret-teach the skill, usually adding additional detail or from a different direction.

The following screen shows the Windows pop-up calculator. The student can switch from the standard calculator shown or a scientific calculator from the calculator’s menu bar under “View”. After working the problem on the calculator, the student can transfer the answer to the program.

After a student completes a lesson, they are given a post-test. There are usually 10 to 12 questions drawn randomly from a test bank. The style of question varies, but the majority of the questions require the student to find the correct answer and then enter it like the following question.

Other questions may require a student to select one or more answers from a list like the following. After a student enters their answer, they will get immediate feedback letting them know if their answer was right or if their answer was wrong. If wrong, the question will be explained to them.

A student’s progress is recorded when they complete the test and if they have passed, they will be moved on to the next assigned lesson. Following is a progress report screen showing their progress. Students can take tests over to improve their scores and only the final score shows on their screen along with the number of times they have taken the test. In the student management system, the instructor can get a report which shows the scores of all tests taken as will as the time spent studying the lesson and the time spent taking each test. The management program also flags students who have taken a test more than three times.

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Produced by David Schmidtke, Blackhawk Technical College, dschmidtke@blackhawk.edu 12/2002