Genghis, an authoring tool for Khan Academy exercises

Abstract

With the rapidly growing use of the Internet, the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is spreading through the academic community, in light of the bene ts these provide not only to the students but to society as well. Most of these courses generally contain some form of evaluation on which a student must prove, either to himself or for evaluation purposes, the learning he has acquired along the way, generally in the form of exercises assigned to a speci c topic or area of knowledge and have the characteristic that, most of the time, do not require human supervision or correction. The main objective of this project is to create an authoring tool for professors without any technical background to generate the aforementioned exercises in a simple, elegant way with the possibility to preview the exercise in progress and formula-editing tools for easy, simple calculations. Moreover, this tool is to be tested on a real production environment with real end users who would test not only the authoring tool, but experience the rst implementation of these courses at UC3M.