Hi,
We are currently working on our Final Year Project Automatic Student Feedback Summarization . Out project is to improve existing summarization techniques and apply it on collected student feedback.
Meanwhile we would like to contribute to create a feedback summarization plugin. We would like to know whether there is such a functionality in Moodle at the moment and whether it is possible.
Thank you!
What does "feedback summarization" mean?
And what are the "existing summarization techniques" that you want to improve?
Sorry for the late reply.
When an instructor enables a feedback forum, students can enter their feedback. For the instructor it is difficult to go through all the feedback entries given about him. Therefor using a text summarization, the instructor can summarize all feedback and have a feedback summary which contain the summarized idea of all feedback entries. Summary can be automatically generated using automatic summarization techniques.
Existing Summarization Techniques
There are generally two approaches for automatic summarization. They are Extractive Summarization and Abstractive Summarization. Currently the abstractive summarization is is in dvelopment level but extractive summarization is almost completely developed. What extractive summarization does is it extract most suitable sentences from the source and present those sentences as a summary. That is what I was thinking to present as a plugin for Moodle.
Probably the easiest way to implement this withing Moodle is as a Block plugin. https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Blocks
You could make a block that the teacher adds to the forum discussion page, and which displays a summary of that discussion to anyone who looks at it.
This may not be the best way to integrate things in the end, but it would be an easy way to get started. I tend to believe that the best way to do software development is to get to something that works as quickly as possible, and then make it better.
Thanks for the reply. We will look into it. We have used moodle, but never participated on development, therefore we have a lot to learn first. Hope it is ok, if we contact you guys again if there is any help needed.
