Here are some of the tips I gathered from my own experience in using XOOPS as a class portal.
There is no problem if all the students have their own email addresses and have access to their mail boxes from the lab. Quite often, however, the case is that some students do not have any email address, or that they cannot access their outside mailboxes from the lab. Some students only have cellphone addresses, which cannot handle the URL commands sent from XOOPS upon registration. One solution to this is to use one of the web mail services, but again, this is often prohibited with concerns for its mischivous uses.
Under such circumstances, a reasonable workaround is to use the personal message system within XOOPS. Users will have to give up on some of the handy email services such as notification, password recovery, etc, but it is good enough as long as students mostly work in the school lab.
New users usually register themselves by filling out the form and submitting the request, to which they receive an activation key (URL) to activate their user account. But here is how to do the registration without access to email:
XOOPS user profile include a username and a real name. By default, real names are not displayed. One use of the real name field is to use it for the student ID. (You can change its title to something else by editing the template. In XOOPS English vesion 2.2 it is much easier to change the user information fields.) Or, you can instruct your students to use their student IDs for the XOOPS username and enter their real names in the real name field in the Edit Account in the User Menu.
Many of the official modules can serve as useful tools in e-Learning contexts. Forums, for example, can be used as ordinary bulletin boards to discuss something, but they can also be used to take rosters of the students by having them post something in a particular thread. The usernames are automatically recorded along with timestamps.
Also, the Polls module can be used for quick surveys, and the News module is a very convenient tool to make announcements about the classes. With the Links module, teachers can provide related information about some topics from classes, and class materials and documents can be organized with the Download module.
The following are tips for using XoopsHP cleverly.
Provided that you have a valid license to publish your quiz for a limited group of users on the web, here is how to restrict access to the quizzes to a particular user group.
The feedback address is set to the registered email address of the poster of the quiz. If you want to use more than one address to suit your need, you might want to create multiple account with different email addresses. Use different login name when you add different quizzes. This way, you can receive the resulting feedback at different email accounts.
The very advantage of Hot Potatoes quiz files can be a disadvantage. Hot Potatoes quiz files are so portable and independent that they can be distributed in removable media such as CDR or DVD-R, however this might give way to cheating because in theory, users can peek into the source file for answer clues. This is not a big problem. You will see it is not as easy as it sounds to find answers in the source because they are not stored as plain text strings.
XOOPS user authentication is not perfect, either. It guarantees that the person who is trying to log in does have the right password, but it does not not ensure that the person is the valid owner of that user account. There is no telling if a clever friend of someone is logging in to help his or her friend, though this is nothing to worry about if you work in the same lab.
XoopsHP does its best to prevent cheating with the use of browser's back buttons. Users cannot go back and correct wrong answers and then check the answers again to raise their scores. Of course they can always try the same quiz from the start without cheating.
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