Thank you for your interest, Dan. The response map XBlock is still on our roadmap of things to do; we appreciate the interest shown by you, Aneesha, and others, and will let you know as things progress!
Thanks, Justin On Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 11:39:47 AM UTC-7, Dan Goldschmidt wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > I've been looking for a response map xBlock my self. I work for Tel Aviv > Univeristy's Center for Learning Innovation and we wish to incorporate the > response map tool at the beginning of our courses in our "introduce > yourself" section. Have you by any chance made any progress on your plan to > develop the response map xBlock? I would very much appreciate an update! > We find much value in this tool and believe that it can do much in terms of > creating in the learner a sense of being part of a learning community. > > Thanks! > Dan Goldschmidt > TAU Online > > On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 00:27:03 UTC+3, Justin Leong 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/e93fe664-48c5-464e-868b-01bdbd16392d%40googlegroups.com.
