Lessons Learned in the Use of WIRIS Quizzes to Upgrade Moodle to Solve Electrical Circuits

Abstract

Abstract-WIRIS quizzes is an online mathematics tool for educational purposes that upgrades Moodle quizzes, and allows the development of personalized quizzes using random data and conditional instructions. WIRIS quizzes can be used in any mathematics or science degree; its complex operators allow it to be used to solve electrical circuits.This tool promotes autonomous student learning and enables teachers to monitor that learning and make adjustments if necessary. Therefore, this tool improves teaching quality. It can also be used as an assessment tool by both the teacher and the student. This paper shows how WIRIS quizzes has been integrated into the virtual campus of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain to teach electrical circuits. Lessons learned in performing and using WIRIS quizzes with second year students at the UPC are shown.

Exploring the effectiveness of continuous activity with automatic feedback in online calculus

“…Methodologically, online teaching fosters asynchrony and is often based on textual resources. This does not help with the resolution of mathematical problems (in mathematical notation) or the clarification of possible doubts with the understanding of texts or immediate problemsolving [3,4].…”

“…The symbol manipulation in WIRIS quizzes can foster learning based on student autonomous practice which is rooted on active learning principles and the idea of learning by doing (Schank) [3,29]. Its use as a learning and assessment tool could foster control of learning by students, the promotion of independent learning-an EHEA competence [3], student-content and -teacher interaction [4], and the identification of potential problems, enabling teachers to make adjustments.…”

“…Its use as a learning and assessment tool could foster control of learning by students, the promotion of independent learning-an EHEA competence [3], student-content and -teacher interaction [4], and the identification of potential problems, enabling teachers to make adjustments.…”

“…There are several advantages to using WIRIS quizzes: they provide easy notation to represent mathematical formulas, overcoming the limitations imposed by other notation programs such as LaTeX and quizzes such as Moodle Quizzes [21], although in some cases ignorance of similar syntaxes has been found to be a handicap [3]. Statements with parameterized values mean that a different statement is possible every time the questionnaire is accessed.…”

“…Percentage of students opting for continuous assessment who passed the course 3 The subject of Mathematics II generally has fewer registered students (an average of 57 registered students, 37 sitting the examination and 24 passing it), which explains its more uneven behavior in all the aspects analyzed.…”