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Teaching materials for use with learningBOX

learningBOX is an e-learning system (LMS) available for ¥30,000 per year per 100 students. learningBOX currently offers the following six types of course materials. These materials can be combined to create flexible courses. 1. questions -- QuizGenerator Questions created by QuizGenerator can be used as course materials, and can be set to be used as a test by limiting the number of attempts to one, or by setting a passing score and having students take the test repeatedly until they pass the passing score. 2. PDF PDF files can be registered as teaching materials, and Word and PowerPoint files can also be converted to PDF files for use as teaching materials. PDF files such as product brochures, user manuals, maintenance manuals, etc. can also be registered for use in training sales staff and maintenance technicians. Memorization cards Memorization cards can be used as teaching materials. They can be used for memorizing vocabulary and terms. 4. YouTube YouTube videos can be embedded as teaching materials, and by using YouTube's limited open function, videos for internal use can also be distributed. An update to learningBOX is scheduled for later this year, which will include the ability to upload videos to learningBOX itself. 5. reports Students can submit long reports and attachments, which can be graded by teachers. 6. certificate A certificate can be issued to certify that the student has completed the course to the end. 7. video You can upload videos to learningBOX. The normal plan is limited to 30 MB, but you can upload videos up to 500 MB with the high-capacity video plan. To find out how long a video can be uploaded, please refer to our Video Capacity page. Coming... We are currently developing the following materials Questionnaire -- A form for users to answer questions about their impressions of the course after learning it. Reading material -- An e-book reader with a book-like UI. Flashcards -- Automatic flipping type memorization cards. SCORM as-is -- Uploads SCORM materials to the site. HTML -- Uploads SCORM interface to HTML.
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Comparison between QuizGenerator and QuizGenerator (beta)

This is a comparison of QuizGenerator and QuizGenerator (beta). QuizGenerator is a "quiz creation only" service and does not manage accounts or grades. QuizGenerator (beta) is a service that provides all the functions of a Learning Management System (LMS), including question registration, account management, and grade management, and is available for free for up to 10 accounts. If you need more accounts, you can use the same question source files (text and spreadsheets) as QuizGenerator without any modification. The same question source files (text and spreadsheets) as QuizGenerator can be used without modification. Nine types of questions can be created: multiple choice, multiple choice (quick mode), multiple choice, short answer, multiple short answer, correct/incorrect (◯××), fill-in-the-blank, sorting, and combination. ◎Randomized questions: You can create 10 registered questions in random order, or 10 random questions out of 100 questions. ◎Master Mode: When you create a quiz, the Complete Strategy button and the Thorough Review button will appear on the quiz start screen. When you click the Complete Strategy button, only questions that you have never answered correctly will be shown. If you click the Thorough Review button, questions that you are not good at (questions you made mistakes on) will be given priority. ◎Only one-time test... Simply put, it is a "test". You can take the quiz only once, and you can set the quiz not to open after the second time. ◎Course creation・・・You can set restrictions such as "You cannot move on to the next question until you have solved all the questions.
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Explanation of the moodle question creation screen

Question Creation Screen Explained When creating questions in moodle, there are many detailed settings that are difficult to understand what they are. In this article, we will explain them. First of all, we will explain the most frequently used multiple choice questions. General The "Question Name" and the "Question Text" are just for the sake of clarity. The "Default Grade" is the score for this question. It may be hard to understand what we are talking about here, but in moodle, the questions and the quiz are two separate groups. For example, let's say you have a quiz that is worth 10 points. You want to put a multiple choice question on the quiz. The "General Feedback" section is where you set how many points this question deserves in the quiz. The "General Feedback" is a message that appears after answering a question? An explanation? Well, something like that. It is for general feedback, so it will be shown to everyone after answering a question. If you want the feedback to be shown only to those who answered correctly or incorrectly, you can set it in the General Feedback section at the bottom of the screen. "Single or multiple answers?" allows you to select one or more answers when answering the question. Depending on this choice, some of the subsequent operations will change. "Shuffle choices?" allows you to shuffle the sequence of choices each time you answer the question. Do you want to number the choices? allows you to choose whether or not to prefix the choices with a number, English, etc. Answer Enter the content of the choices in the field labeled "Choice". The "Grade" field allows you to set the score of the choice. The "Grade" should be set to the "Default Grade", which is %. The "Grade" should be adjusted depending on whether the answer is a single answer or multiple answers. In the case of a single answer The grade of one of the options must be 100%. In the case of multiple answers The sum of the positive grades must equal 100%. The "Feedback" is a message that appears when you select a choice as your answer. An explanation? Well, that's what it is. Click on "Add 3 more choices" to add more choices. Other Settings The "General Feedback" section allows you to select the message to be displayed for correct and incorrect answers? Explanation? You can set the message or explanation for each correct or incorrect answer. The "Multiple Attempts" option is best thought of as "Multiple Answers". If you make a mistake on a question, you will be given a hint, and you can try to answer the question again, but with a point deduction. The "Tags" field allows you to set tags for the management of the question bank. The "Created/Last Modified" field is just what it sounds like. A lot of settings in moodle This is a description of the second most configurable question in moodle, the multiple choice question. Many of you may think that you don't need all that detail. On the other hand, are there people who still need more? In other questions, you can set the units of measure in detail, how much margin of error is allowed in calculation questions, how many decimal places are allowed, etc. In other words, if you don't set it in detail, you can't make the question. Conversely, you cannot make a problem unless you set up the details. The evaluation of moodle will vary depending on whether you see this as an advantage or a disadvantage. I want to use e-learning more comfortably and for free. For those who find moodle's detailed settings a disadvantage and those who want to use e-learning more comfortably, we recommend our learningBOX. Up to 10 accounts are free. There is no need to set up a server at all. It is an e-learning service that can be used immediately by simply registering a user who can handle all the functions you set up at the end. To register for free for learningBOX, please register below. Click here for free registration
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How to use moodle (user registration)

User Registration First, let's register a user. If you want to create your own questions and answer them yourself, you don't need to use moodle. Click on "Site Management" on the left side of the screen. Next, switch to the Users tab and click on "Add new user" in the Account column. Fill in the required fields and click Create User. The red star is a required field, but a "user name" is also needed to log in. Don't forget to enter this field as well. If you have not checked the "Generate password and notify user" box, you will need to set your own password. If all is well, the new user will be registered as shown in the image below. Join a course The user who has just been enrolled belongs to the course. This allows you to limit the number of issues to users. Click on the participants on the left side of the screen of the course to which you want to assign the user. Click on the gear icon on the right side of the screen and click on "Registered Users". Click on "User Registration". The list of users available for registration will be displayed. Click "Register" to the right of the user you wish to register, and finally click "Finish User Registration" at the bottom right. The user is now enrolled in the course. I want to use e-learning more comfortably and for free. If you want to use e-learning more comfortably, we recommend our learningBOX. Up to 10 accounts are free. No need to set up any servers. It is an e-learning service that can be used immediately by simply registering users who can handle all the functions you set up at the end. To register for free for learningBOX, please register below. Click here for free registration
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How to use moodle (registering questions)

What is moodle? moodle is an open source e-learning platform. It is a Learning Management System (LMS) that provides a complete set of features to support face-to-face teaching and e-learning. moodle was developed in Australia and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is developed on a community basis (volunteer). Registering Activities moodle allows you to register various activities (e.g. discussion boards, report collection pages, etc.). Quizzes are one of these activities. Create a new course from the site home page. Enter the course you have created and click on the "Start Edit Mode" link in the gear box in the upper right corner of the screen. The screen will change slightly. Since you don't know what the screen means at this point, we'll briefly explain. The "Topic 1" in (1) looks like a folder. In the image, there are folders named Topic 1, Topic 2, Topic 3, and Topic 4 in the folder "Course for Introduction. Editing (2) is editing about the topic. You can change the name of the topic or make it invisible to all but the administrator. You can create issues, bulletin boards, etc. from (3), although it is difficult to see because of the yellow color. You can increase or decrease the number of topics from ④. You can reorder topics by dragging and dropping the crossed arrows in ⑤. (6) is an activity forum, which is similar to a bulletin board. (7) is the setting of the public range. This article is about registering a problem, so we will register a problem right away. Click on "Add Activity or Resource" (③). A list of activities and resources will be displayed. Since we are going to create a question, select "Quiz" and click "Add". Enter the information for the quiz. The only required field is the name. The only thing you need to enter here is the file information for the quiz, which is separate from the questions. To explain this a little more clearly, think of it as preparing a piece of paper to create the test. Once saved, the quiz file is generated. The next step is to write the questions on the prepared paper. Click on the file name. Click on Edit Quiz to set the questions in the quiz file. Click Add and then click New Question. Select the question format. This time we will choose a simple o/x question. Category is where you choose where the questions you create will be stored in the question bank. The question bank will be explained in more detail later. Default Grade is the score for this question. In simple terms, it determines the score for a 10-point test. Enter the question name and text, select o or x for the correct answer, and you are done with the minimum settings. Click Save Changes at the bottom. The question is now registered. The quiz now contains only one question with a crossed-out answer. We can now repeat this process to edit the quiz, but this time we will leave this one question alone. Return to the site home and click on the quiz file name Take Question" is now displayed. Click on it to start the question. Question Bank In moodle, all questions are stored in a question bank. The questions in the question bank are copied into the quiz to form the quiz. As you can see in the image above, there are several categories within the larger question bank. The categories in which questions are stored are the ones shown in the image above. I want to use e-learning more easily and for free. If you want to use e-learning more comfortably, we recommend our learningBOX. Up to 10 accounts are free. No need to set up any servers. Just register as a user and you can start using our e-learning service right away. Click here to register for free.
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Why build your eLearning system on your intranet?

The reasons for building an e-learning system on an intranet (corporate network = on-premise) in the age of cloud computing are as follows. To allow learning of content that absolutely must not be leaked to outside parties. For general e-learning, even cloud-based e-learning systems can sufficiently protect against information leaks by using SSL and reliable data centers and management companies. However, would it be appropriate, for example, to deliver training content for the Self-Defense Forces from an Amazon data center? http://AmazonにはAWS There is a service for U.S. government organizations called GovCloud, and there may eventually be a cloud for Japanese government agencies. However, at this time, there is no public cloud that can handle Japan's national secrets, and an intra-governmental e-learning system may be necessary for these applications. To allow learning materials, including high quality videos, to be studied at large sites. We want to provide e-learning materials using videos to offices with several thousand to several tens of thousands of employees. In such a case, it is not appropriate to have all the videos placed on the cloud and taken at the same time, considering the load on the network. It is not uncommon for large companies to have internal networks with bandwidths of 10 Gbps or higher, but communication over the Internet is best-effort and slower and less reliable than internal corporate networks. Therefore, if you want to use e-learning materials, including video content, at a single large location, it is practical to build an e-learning system on the intranet. That said, the cloud is often more suitable than on-premise Conversely, except in the above cases, it is more economical and less time-consuming to build an e-learning system using the cloud. Even if you have tens of thousands of employees, if you want to learn from sales offices all over the country, an intranet-based system is not recommended in terms of cost and stability. If you are ordering the intranet version, please contact us. As of October 2018, we offer learningBOX mainly from a cloud environment (Amazon Web Services), while we also have customers who have built the above intranet (on-premise), so if you want to deploy learningBOX in an intranet (on-premise) environment If you would like to deploy learningBOX in your intranet (on-premise) environment, please feel free to contact us. Please contact us for more information. Related: Service Overview/Fee Structure - learningBOX - QuizGenerator The fee schedule for on-premise services has not yet been completed for public viewing and is not available on the fee structure page. (As of October 18, 2018) Related:Wikipedia:On-premise Related:Time for data: which should you choose? The difference between on-premise and cloud computing, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Published February 21, 2017 Revised with additions on October 18, 2018