WISE Tutor
(Work-centric Intelligent System for Education):
Manufacturing a New Learning Environment

This project is funded by US Dept. of Education, FIPSE grant P116B70787

WISETUTOR  USER INTERFACE

When the user first invokes the tutor, the Log in and scenario selection window will appear (see figure 5).  This window consists of  three panels:

  1. Log in panel – allows user to log in and log out of the tutor
  2. scenario selection panel – where the tutor will display the available scenarios.  At this time, there are 18 scenarios.
  3. scenario description panel – once the student selects a problem scenario, the description of the problem will appear.  This panel will also show the difficulty level of the problem and whether the problem has been solved by the user.
Figure 5 – Users would see this Log in screen when he/she starts to run the WISETutor

The difficult level ranges from 1 to 4 and usually indicates the depth of the selected problem.  For example, a level 1 problem would involve a simple fix.  Level 3 would mean that the symptom is caused by some problem that is caused by another problem.  The fix for a level 3 problem might involve three repair (or maintenance) actions.  Having  problems with different levels allows students to progress to more realistic problems as he/she is becoming more familiar with the chip shooter.

The WISETutor keeps a data file of the problems that the students attempted, the ones he/she solved, and the steps the students took.  An enhancement to the tutor is to allow analysis of this data so the instructors can see how well the students are solving the problems.

Figure 6 shows that student jjw has log in and selected scenario 2 (highlighted blue).  Scenario has a difficulty level of 1 and the student has solved the problem before.
 
 

Figure 6 – The student selects Scenario #2 and the problem description is given in the left section.

After the student reads the problem and decides to try to troubleshoot it, he/she would click on Continue and the tutor window will appear.

The student can log out by  clicking on the Log out button.  To terminate the program, click on the x on the upper right hand corner of the Scenario Editor or select the Exit option under the File pull down menu.  A window will appear  to ask whether to terminate the program or not.  Select Yes to quite or No to resume the program.

After terminating the program, the MS-DOS  JRE window will change to Finished – run window.  Close that window by clicking on the x on the upper right corner.

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