Home-made and readily available IPAC tool – Run your practice your way and efficiently

Abstract

The concept of the IPAC methodology is simple, however its implementation without a tool is very staff-time consuming (e.g. 3-4 full working days for an 80 students class) and hence not always used even if beneficial. Therefore an automatic IPAC system is needed. This system should comply with some priority requirements that I identified from extensive literature reading, own experience and numerous conversations with other staff members. There are some relevant commercial systems available (reviewed by the IPAC Consortium), but currently none meet all these priority requirements. This drove me to develop an in-house software. This is currently available, in use by some UCL academics in various Faculties since October 2017, and readily available to others. This software is useful to any academic/teacher setting and assessing group work. I will present the priority requirements and give a demonstration of the software. Feedback / future development priorities will be sought from the audience

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