UVLe LTI Packages
"LTI" stands for "learning tools interoperability," a standard for integrating rich learning applications for learning management systems like UVLe. To know more about tools that can be incorporated into UVLe, please see this catalog.
The LTI packages discussed in this page are already available on UVLe.
ChemVantage
The ChemVantage package provides resources that include online textbooks, video lectures, and class activities like homework exercises, quizzes and practice exams for General Chemistry. Here's its demo page on UVLe for students. If you want a teacher demo account, please contact our Helpdesk.
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Quizzes
Using this LTI package, it allows UVLe and ChemVantage to communicate with each other, meaning, the quizzes taken by the students on this tool will be added to their UVLe course gradebook automatically. Currently, it is populated with more than 2000 questions. Each quiz consists of 10 questions drawn at random from its own question bank.
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The students can have unlimited attempts on a particular quiz, and the highest score among the quiz attempts would be recorded on the course gradebook, as the student's final grade.
Video Lectures
It offers a series of 10-minute video lectures on a variety of General Chemistry topics that are listed on this page.
Practice Exams
The practice exams allows the student to choose from any group of 3 or more topics. The exam is designed to take for 1 hour and includes a selection of 10 easy questions, 5 average and 2 challenging problems. After the exam, the scores are disaggregated by topic to reveal the student's areas of strengths and weakness.
Portfolio Page
Students can access their own portfolio that shows the score on each quiz and homework assignments they have taken up. It also provides a summary of all activities completed, including videos watched, quizzes taken and homework problems solved.
Instructors can view the scores of each student within this tool or within the UVLe course gradebook.
For UVLe faculty user: How to add ChemVantage on UVLe course
WebPA
WebPA (short for "web-based peer assessment") is an online automated tool that facilitates peer moderated marking of group work. Students carry out a group task set by the academic tutor and follow this by an assessment on the performance of the group. A ‘weighting factor’ is generated for each individual group member which is derived from each student’s input against defined criteria. Based on the total mark given to the group task, assessed and allocated by the academic tutor in the usual way, the weighting factor is then used to moderate marks providing an individual mark for each student.
Demo page on UVLe
 A well criticism of assessed group work is that each student recieves the same team mark, regardless of individual performance.
By using WebPA to peer assess group work, each student recieved an adjusted mark.
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Scales
WebPA have two different ways that your student can score each other.
- Likert scale
The standard WebPA scoring. Students rate each other against a small likert scale, typically 1-5 or 1-10, by simply clicking the appropriate radio button.
- Split 100
Students must split 100 marks between their teammates for each criterion, with each score being entered manually into the appropriate box. The score for each criterion must total 100, so students using this method will be made more aware of the effects of their peer assessment scores, as giving more marks to one team mate means another must get less.
Noteflight
Noteflight is a music composition and instruction tool.
For now this is a demo version; meaning, exercises cannot yet be saved. If we have enough users for this functionality, we may convert it to a full-fledged version.