LON-CAPA
LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline Network with CAPA) is a learning content and course management system. It offers an underlying shared content pool from which instructors across departmental and institutional boundaries can assemble granular learning content for their courses. It has strong assessment capabilities, both formative (homework and in-class using wireless PDAs) and summative (online and bubblesheet exams), with a one-source multiple-target strategy for the content. It offers students portfolio space in which they can stage materials for submission to projects, and provides a number of tools for synchronous and asynchronous student-student and student-faculty communication. LON-CAPA scales well with number of students, as load-balancing is possible across the whole network of servers at participating institutions.
| Tags | education Testing Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Freeware GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | JavaScript Perl C |
Recent releases
- 18 May 2009 06:51
Changes: The bridgetask problem type again allows uploading of any kind of file if no filetype was specified by the author. Default filetypes for Office documents now include docx, pptx, and xlsx. Students can again see the bridgetask slots that they signed up for. Display of user lists, filtered by status, is possible again for languages other than English. The configuration of notification email addresses for warnings and errors generated by batchjobs is now easier.
- 20 Jan 2009 15:01
Changes: Files uploaded by students for submission to assignments are subject to a size restriction. The assigned quota and the amount of disk space currently in use for the user's Portfolio are displayed. The zip-file with of all files submitted by students to a particular assignment now includes files uploaded directly as well as files selected from students' Portfolios. System-generated text in a notification email is localized according to the recipient's or course language preference. The starting day of the week used in the calendar is determined by locale.
- 25 Sep 2008 17:43
Changes: Dynamic plots are again rendered in individualizing homework problems. Several backward compatibility issues in connection with short answer problems were fixed. Domain Coordinators are again able to access assigned co-author roles in other domains (e.g., other schools and universities). Load balancing is now able to offload from machines running the HTTP protocol to machines running HTTPS.
- 01 Sep 2008 22:47
Changes: Course coordinators see recent enrollment changes on the "What's New" screen. When cloning a course, they can shift all dates and times at once to adjust to a new semester or year. Finally, they can switch roles on-the-fly to test their courses from the perspective of students, instructors, and teaching assistants. The DragMath editor was incorporated into algebraic and formula response problems. Students can now self-enroll into designated courses, and the process can be coupled with other institutional authentication and authorization systems.
- 05 Apr 2008 20:40
Changes: This version eliminates erroneous timeouts during print jobs and implements better warnings if resources could not be rendered. In exam mode, the generation of randomized numerical bubbles was fixed for the situation where the correct answer is zero. The Spanish, German, and Portuguese localization files were updated. Printing now correctly supports UTF-8.
