Hi Justin Great to see interest and use of the tool. I currently work at UQx and we are happy to contribute to the development of the XBlock.
Regards Aneesha *Dr Aneesha Bakharia* Senior UQx Programmer *e:* a.bakhar...@uq.edu.au | *w:* itali.uq.edu.au <http://www.itali.uq.edu.au/> *Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation* | Learning Innovation Building (LIB) Building 17, Level 4, Room 411 The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072 CRICOS Code 00025B On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Justin Leong <leong.just...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The Response Map tool, originally developed at The University of > Queensland, is an LTI tool for edX https://github.com/UQ-UQx/response-map > that "allows students to respond to a question or give feedback and have > the responses show up on a world map based on the location that they enter > in. All the responses are also processed and turned into a word cloud at > the bottom of the map. Students can also upload an image along with their > response." > > Our team at the University of British Columbia has made some improvements > to this tool and deployed a local instance at UBC. We have seen good usage > of and increasing interest in this tool internally. However, due to the > limitations of LTI, this tool may not be easily adopted by the wider > community. We are planning to build and release an XBlock for the Open edX > platform based on this and wanted to get some input on whether people see > value in developing this tool as an xBlock rather than just an LTI tool, > and what features the community would find useful for the tool. You can > view screenshots of what the tool currently looks like below. > > Current features: > > - map view: A user can view a world map, including all markers that users > have created on the map. Each marker, when clicked, shows the name and > response given by the user who made the first response for that location on > the map. > - response view: When a user clicks on a marker on the map, they can > navigate through all responses made for that location by clicking the left > or right arrows as appropriate. A student will see the option to edit a > response, for his/her response(s) only. Instructors will see the options to > edit or delete responses, for all responses. > - adding a response: A user can add a response to an instance of a > Response Map. A user can specify their name, location, and a textual > response. They can also upload an image as part of their response, and see > a preview before posting. The location specified in their response will be > the location indicated by the resultant marker on the map. > - upvoting: Students and instructors both have the ability to upvote a > response. The number of upvotes for a given response is displayed as part > of the response view. > - word map: An instance of a Response Map generates and displays a word > cloud just below the map itself. The size of a given word in the word cloud > corresponds to its frequency in the responses submitted for the Response > Map instance. An instructor can toggle between showing and hiding the word > map in Studio. > > > > > > *Map View* > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VQyYuZBJ9-o/WRDfpms3KOI/AAAAAAAAAAY/WP6Yu6hAjW0amoNiJoYGmoQkWiMz7-DJgCLcB/s1600/responsemap.png> > > > > > > > *Add response* > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4qsZhqD-tig/WRDfyW8gZCI/AAAAAAAAAAc/MoPE41iNjokm5xn55fmZIpI8qpY92TJoACLcB/s1600/responsemapadd.png> > > > > > > *Studio View* > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y0a6m4ll_h4/WRDf4sJ7YgI/AAAAAAAAAAg/0VRv9LNWY4sftoE6idgVlwE0lL7MbfS5ACLcB/s1600/responsemapstudio.png> > > Proposed features: > > - list view: Currently, a user can click through on the map to see > responses for a given location. One can then navigate between responses by > clicking the appropriate arrows. A more efficient way of displaying > responses may be through the use of a list view of responses. This could be > provided by a toggleable setting that alternates between a map and list > view. The list view could organize responses by location, where locations > are represented by headings in the list. > - continually link a user's responses to their location in a response map: > The response map works well for an initial instance where users can link a > response to their location. It would be great to continually tie in what > they write in other areas in the course to their indicated location. > - filter word map by location: Currently a user can view a word cloud, > which represents words across all responses. Users may be interested in > having word clouds generated by location as well. > - data download: The ability for instructors to download a dump of all > responses and locations. > > Thank you, > > Justin > > Software Developer > University of British Columbia > justin DOT leong AT ubc DOT ca > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General Open edX discussion" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/edx-code/3463dfad-0b5c-45d7-a10a-0be96125604a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/3463dfad-0b5c-45d7-a10a-0be96125604a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CAHQ4qzkuRO7opHgY1d9MEXaZFKNSjcuU%2BAjissEcw0O8pK6v%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
