About OneBook
OneBook is a Web-based application which allows students and teachers to
share share information via a consistent interface. It is intended to
replace individual class Web pages with a single portal providing access to
all a student's classes, past and present.
Features
OneBook provides several advantages over traditional class Web pages:
Students:
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Information for all classes is available via a single portal.
You need only visit a single page to view grades, announcements, etc. for
all classes using OneBook. This eliminates the need to memorize multiple
URLs and navigation paths, and makes it much easier to stay up-to-date.
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You can submit assignments online.
If your instructor marks a OneBook assignment as online-submittable, you
may upload your work as soon as you finish it.
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Group project materials are easily shared.
Instead of passing a document around via email, you can upload it to the
OneBook server and provide access to group members. OneBook provides a
Web-accessible filesystem, making it easier to synchronize complicated
group assignments.
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Class materials remain available indefinitely.
Say you took Calculus three years ago, and now you need to review Taylor
series. You could rummage through the piles of old notes and tests in
your closet, but it would be easier if you could do a keyword search at
your computer to come up with those materials. All the class materials
posted on OneBook may remain available after a semester ends, and
accessing them is as easy as accessing those of the current semester.
Teachers and Teaching Assistants:
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No HTML is required.
You don't need to learn how to make a Web page to post grades and
class materials on the Web. OneBook provides simple interfaces which
make these tasks easy.
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Collecting assignments is easy.
If you've ever had your students submit an assignment via email, you may
have found it more trouble than it was worth. Sorting through dozens of
emails and collecting attachments is tedious, and students often ignore
your instructions. OneBook makes it simple - click a link to download a
ZIP file containing everyone's work, sorted by student.
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Statistics help you gauge student performance.
Simply provide OneBook with the individual assignment grades for each
student, and it will automatically recalculate the relevant student and
class averages. You may then view detailed statistics over a variety
of criteria to gauge class performance.
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OneBook scales to large classes.
Large classes require that tasks such as grading be divided among
multiple instructors and teaching assistants. OneBook is designed to
support such a division of labor, allowing students to be partitioned
into groups and graded separately.
