Student Comments: What to improve about OLI

1: Improvements OLI needs to have instant feed back for its tests. Not just the scores but if something is wrong there should be an explanation as to why the correct answer is what it is. If it is a long problem then the steps should be shown how it was found. This was done in the example problems using the hints most of the time and was incredibly helpful at times. Also maybe posting a histogram of how well other people scored on their tests would be helpful for the class to see so that they know where they are in relation to the class. It was helpful in another class that I took

1. Improvements: I think that OLI would be helped by some extra example problems at the end of each module. The current ones are useful, but I think having more than the small number already available would have been very helpful for me.

Improvements: I would prefer it if it used easier words to describe things

1.improvements: I think that the improvements should first be off with the point system. There shouldn't be things that are worth more than 10 percent of the total amount of points. I also think that some of the things are worded or made to hard to understand. The other thing is when you select things after a amount of time it should give you the answer and explain things. It took me a long time to figure out the 5 parts of the subsystem because of this.

1. Improvements: Some of the more complicated problems should have better step by step solutions

1) A major improvement I think OLI could use is to have the option to retake the quiz at the end of the chapter, maybe up to 3 times, with slightly different answers on each following. This should be done for grading purposes. The first quiz results could still be used in class to clarify questions.

Improvements; The formulas in many of the examples did not follow the standard method of writing them. It made it hard to even see what the help was without the correct parenthesis ( ) around the values. Also assumed multiplication is unacceptable.

1.Improvements: I think the content could be dumbed down a little. I could not get to the basic concepts some of the time because I would get lost trying to figure out what he was talking about. A lot of the material seemed heavy when the concepts are pretty basic. Also, on the quizzes, maybe they should be more straight-foward. Sometimes I couldn't solve a problem because I didn't know what you were asking

1)improvements: I think that the how things are described could be better

1. Improvements: The wording is often far too lengthy, and the questions on the quiz are sometimes quite confusing. perhaps consolidating some information would help

1. Improvements: render math formulas as graphics rather than text like some wikipedia pages. Some of the hints were not helpful, especially when the concept did not make sense. I would rather see worked out solutions. The end quizzes were not fair sometimes, e.g. 30 pt.s for a true/false question. The moving visuals were probably good for most people, but I personally did not like them. I was able to visualize them without the graphics, it seemed superfluous.

1. Improvements: I think the only main improvement that could be made is that the words could be explained more. Some of the words in this are not commonly heard of by us college students and quite often confuse us.

1. OLI was well laid out but I found it hard to follow the equations. Many times they were bunched together and at first glance looked very confusing.

1) improvements: I think some improvements could be made on how things are described, maybe a little less wordy.

Improvements: OLI was nice, a few more of the explaining videos could be handy. Watching a problem get solved out is very good at showing how to approach in what order when reading an instruction list just doesn't quite cut it.

1:improvements: When oli explained calculations it was very hard to follow and understand what they were doing because of the multiple use of the word normal. Also grading on the quizzes at the end of each module is a little disproportional because one question is worth 5 points while the other is worth 20 points.

1.Improvements: There needs to be improvements on how some of the material is presented. Granted the way it was presented made me think on the topic at hand but at times i was very frustrated with the way it was presented.

1.Improvemet; The improvements needed on OLI is that it needs less words. I think the amount of words that was in OLI was distracted me from learning the materials because I was so focus on trying to understand every single word.

1. Improvements: The biggest improvement I can think of is to reword a lot of the quiz questions because some were confusing. Also, more variety in the types of diagrams used to illustrate points, it was tough to look at a lot of the same drawings over and over and be able to keep them organized in my head.

1. Improvements: I feel that OLI could have been improved by having more example problems worked out to follow along with, as well as having easier to read explaination of concepts.

1. Improvements: I would add more interactive activities to get the reader hooked. As well as crazy videos of statics concepts being implemented into a real world situation. On the interactive section of the module it would be nice if you were to get the right answer if they told you why it was the right answer.

1. Improvments: I think that it should be a little less wordy at somepoints during the modules.

1. Improvements: I think some quiz questions were worth too much than they should be. Also, I think some of the test questions weren't as clear.

1. Improvements: Some of the real life pictures could be improved, they're somewhat dull. The videos aren't usually to fun to watch. The equations are very difficult to understand because of the way they are written. A equation editor of some sort should be utilized.

1. Improvements: * Module 5 was way to long for the information that was communicated. * There was many times where words overwhelmed an easy concept * When there was a problem solved for us on a module, it was not obvious what was being done. the word "Normal" is used at least five times in each of the equations... very confusing

1. Improvement; one thing that can be changed is when a student takes a test and get to see their results, they should be able to she how they got it wrong and what the correct answer is.

#1 Improvement:A Couple module are too long and I think that it would be benefital if you were to break it down to smaller portion