Education is a major current issue, constantly evolving to improve students learning. Numerous studies have shown that students' attention and understanding are linked to the dynamism and interactivity of the class. For higher education, active learning faces several challenges in maintaining students' attention during classes and making them more active participants in the sessions. The goal is to encourage note-taking and sequences of interaction using questions and answers of various types. It is with the aim of improving interactivity that the IntuiNote application was created, on which the IntuiBoard project is based.
IntuiNote is an active learning support software. It allows the teacher to create presentations using documents, images, or slideshows, annotate them manually during the class with the option to share them and directly incorporate various types of quizzes (multiple choices, true/false, heat map, etc.) into the presentation. Students can follow the class directly via a computer, smartphone, or tablet, taking their own notes and responding to the quizzes provided.
This project, initiated at INSA Rennes in 2016, is currently being tested in higher education through the Air-Digital Demonstrator project. This experimentation aims to verify the software's ergonomics and measure its impact on learning.
The objective of the IntuiBoard project is to work on the analysis and visualization of information collected during a class conducted using the IntuiNote tool. This visualization is done through the use of analytical dashboards, accessible only to the teacher. These dashboards allow the study of each session's progression to identify decreases in attention and difficult points in the class, as well as to provide real-time and post-session feedback. To achieve this, it is necessary to work on collecting information such as the quantity of note-taking, time spent on each slide in the case of a slideshow, responses to questions, etc. These activity traces are collected anonymously. This information must then be analyzed and synthesized before being graphically visualized on one of the project's two distinct dashboards. Indeed, IntuiBoard is divided into two separate dashboards, each with specific uses: the real-time dashboard is used for live feedback during the class, while the post-session dashboard is used to study the previous session in more detail with more precise information.
Real-time dashboard
This dashboard is utilized during a class.
It can be accessed by the teacher via a smartphone or computer.
Its purpose is to be highly concise and visual to enable quick comprehension of available information. The first section of the dashboard displays the number of students present in the class in real-time. In the second section, the teacher finds the students' synchronization with their position over the last three minutes of the class. There are three possibilities: ahead, synchronous, or behind. Finally, the last section of the dashboard shows live quiz results with the ability to navigate between different quizzes.
Post-session dashboard
This dashboard is used after a class.
It is accessible to the teacher via a computer or smartphone.
Its aim is to be comprehensive to analyze the conducted session potentially for enhancing subsequent sessions. The post-session dashboard is divided into three parts: the first part displays students' synchronization with the teacher (ahead, synchronous, or behind) throughout the entire session as well as on each slide. The second part is dedicated to note-taking quantity, and the third part focuses on quiz results and associated response times.
We are 7 students from INSA Rennes working on the IntuiBoard project:
Anna ADAM
Axel DUPRAZ
Luther Kevin KEPSEU
Alexandre-Skander MAHJOUB
Eileen MATHEY
Pauline ROCHES
Alexis SIMON
We thank our supervisors for their assistance:
Éric ANQUETIL, Teacher at INSA and researcher at IRISA, and Bruno HORTOLLARY, Research Engineer at IRISA.