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A virtual class is a space where students can work under the guidance of a
supervisor (teacher). All the activities of a virtual class, either for supervisor
or for participants, are carried out on the users' web browser, via
connections to the WIMS site.

When a virtual class is
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 by the teacher who then becomes the supervisor of it,
students can register into the class as participants. The supervisor assigns
works for the students, organized in worksheets.

When putting work items (exercises) into worksheets, the supervisor also
determines the number of points each student should gather on the item.
Each time a student (totally or partially) successes in solving an exercises,
he/she is attributed a certain number of points (from 0 to 10)

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 for this success. This number of points is registered by the server,
and the supervisor can consult the achievements of each student, either
globally or individually, as a whole or exercise by exercise.

When connected into the class as the supervisor, teacher can also
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 his/her own specific interactive exercises and then insert into worksheets.
These exercises automatically take advantage of the standard features of
WIMS: random pickup of exercises and/or parameters, registered scores, etc.

Each virtual class also contains a message board allowing supervisor and
students to exchange views in different ways. Messages may contain
mathematical formulas in a very convenient way, and readers will see the
formulas automatically formatted.

Planned for the future:
test sheets with sophisticated random exercise generation and work time
limitation will also be available. Software to analyze student performance
based on registered data on his/her work is under study.

