You've heard about the new CALI viewer and why students should be excited about it (compatibility with tablets and smartphones, for one).
We didn't forget about faculty in all the excitement. We've built into the new Lessons some very handy special features visible only to faculty users. Here are the details:...
- We added a direct link to faculty view: a view of a CALI Lesson in its entirety on a single webpage. It makes a complete review, and even printing of the lesson, much easier. Here's where you'll find the link.
- A faculty options link (also in the above-linked image) opens a special faculty toolbar on the left with advanced tools and navigation options.
- A mapper tool in that menu helps you visualize the flow and branching of the questions.
- A direct link to LessonLink lets you create a unique URL that tracks your students' usage of assigned lessons.
An important note on LessonLinks.
Creating a LessonLink to track student usage now leads users to the new viewer. This is big news for faculty who use LessonLink because of the new viewer's auto-save feature. Students no longer have to remember to click save before they exit a lesson; the new viewer simply saves their data to your My LessonLinks profile.
However, any LessonLink created before 8/10/2011 still leads to the outdated version of lessons, without auto-save. Faculty who created their LessonLinks before 8/10/2011 should create new LessonLinks and assign them instead.
So run a lesson, explore your faculty options, and let us know what you think. We're looking for ways to improve the new viewer, so we'd love your feedback.