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WELCOME TO ICES!!
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This examination supervisor is designed to help you provide
better training opportunities for your students while
significantly reducing the work you must spend in preparing,
administering, solving, and grading quizes and examinations. The
system does virtually all of that work for you.
You, of course, must set up and manage the system. However,
the time required to do that is much less than the time you would
spend doing the work which the system performs for you.
Moreover, the system is quite easy to manage and operate.
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PREPARING AND GRADING QUIZES
You do not have to prepare any quizes!
All quizes are computer generated and computer scored. Each
quiz is scored while the student is taking it and the score is
reported to the student immediately and saved for the instructor.
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COLLECTING GRADES
When a student has completed one or more quizes or examinations
using their own exam diskette, the student merely gives the
instructor the diskette (or a backup copy). The instructor then
uses this program to collect the grades. The program lifts all
data off the student's diskette and then updates the instructor's
records.
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PREPARING GRADE REPORTS
The instructor may obtain an updated grade report at any time
by using this program. By choosing the appropriate option from
the menu, the instructor may print a grade report that is based
on all data submitted by the students as of the time the grade
report is prepared.
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ASSESSING STUDENT EFFORT-ABILITY
A student's final grade on a quiz or examination reflects the
result of both effort and skill. Some students will take a quiz
or exam only once and obtain a high score. Others will attempt
the exams several times in order to improve a score.
The system keeps track of, and records, the number of times
each student attempts an examination . The number of 'tries'
becomes part of the grade report so that you can better assess
the effort students are making. Provided, of course, that you
permit multiple trials on the quizes and examinations. You have
complete control over that!
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PRESENTING LECTURE NOTES
As you will see in the main menu of the PROFESS program, there
is an option to present lecture notes. Thus, you can take the
PROFESS program to a classroom with a large monitor and run your
lectures from the computer.
It's so very simple. Just put your lecture notes in any text
file on a separate diskette. You then have your own built in
visual aid for the classroom.
If you want your students to have your lecture notes, merely
give the students a copy of your 'notes' diskette. They can then
view or print virtually any text file that you provide on the
'notes' diskette.
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OVERALL SECURITY
Special efforts have been made to provide reasonable security
for all forms of student data, and this is done in several ways
that will be described shortly.
It is essential for you to recognize that use of this PROFESS
program constitutes the weakest link in the entire security
chain. Thus, you should NEVER allow a student to obtain or use
this program or the diskette on which it resides.
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PASSWORD SECURITY
Each student is given a 'password' which must be correctly used
in order to operate any part of the system. Thus, a student must
deliberately surrender the password before anyone else can
operate the system using their exam diskette.
Passwords are used to minimize any chance of someone examining
a student's grades without proper authorization.
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DATA SECURITY
Virtually all student data and the exams are encrypted to
discourage the unlikely event that someone might attempt to
modify grades or examination answers.
Certain additional protections have been included that make it
difficult to modify any information unless that is properly done
by the system. Thus, students are warned that they must not
attempt to modify any of the files on their data diskette. Any
effort to do so could result in total destruction of all prior
work.
Moreover, any such fortuitous file destruction will likely be
brought to the instructor's attention by the student who will
have to seek help in restoring data files.
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INSTRUCTOR'S SECURITY
As you saw earlier, this PROFESS program is unprotected unless
you assign your own password. It is very important that you do
that.
When you create a password for this PROFESS program, it is very
important that you also write it down and store it in a secure
place. If you forget your password you cannot then get into the
system!
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PLACE SECURITY
We strongly recommend that students be allowed to use the
system only in designated public places like computer labs or
classrooms that contain adequate computer equipment. Moreover,
we recommend that such laboratories or classrooms be supervised
by an attendant in order to discourage any effort to modify files
or break security codes and encryption techniques.
The main consideration to keep in mind is that security is only
as good as you make it. A reasonable effort has been made to
provide security, but the effectiveness of those efforts depends
on your management of the environment in which the system is to
be used.
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ICES PHILOSOPHY
You should know that ICES is based on a particular view of
education. It is a view based on the belief that students should
be free to set their own standards for the level of excellence
that they will pursue in the course. Some will aspire to a
'perfect score' on all quizes and examinations and others will
settle for less than that.
This philosophy is implemented by allowing students to attempt
any examination or quiz as many times as they wish. However, the
instructor has complete control over the number of times students
are allowed to attempt an examination or quiz.
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Our experience with this system has thus far been quite
positive. While students often complain loudly when an
instructor 'requires' repetition of an assignment or quiz, they
have generally been most eager to 'elect' repetition of work and
effort when they know that will provide an opportunity to improve
their grade. Frankly, we've been rather amazed at students'
willingness to invest great energy into the learning of the
materials by availing themselves of the ICES options.
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