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Margic
This plugin has been developed and is maintained by the coactum GmbH on commission from the Centre for Language Studies (ZfS) at Paderborn University in Germany.
In the Margic activity, participants can create unlimited entries which can then be evaluated and annotated by teachers.
Margics can be used in a meaningful way in language lessons, for example. Students can create entries to answer variable tasks, write their own texts and stories, or practice vocabulary.
Teachers can then view, correct and evaluate these entries on a customizable overview page. For this purpose, they can mark specific text passages and write annotations for them, whereby an error type and a short text can be stored for each annotation. The entire entry can also be graded and provided with textual or acoustic feedback. Participants then have the opportunity to revise their original entry and use the feedback received to improve it.
The available error types for the annotations can be flexibly adjusted. In an error summary, instructors can also evaluate for each participant how many and which errors they made in a Margic. Finally, it is also possible to export or print the entries in a Margic for further use.
Core features of the plugin:
- Write and revise multimedia entries.
- Individually customizable overview page with all (own) entries available in Margic
- Extensive possibilities for annotation and evaluation of entries for teachers
- Customizable error types and detailed error evaluation
Feedback or bug reports are always welcome in the bug tracker or the comments section.
On a Moodle 3.11 installation, I checked the plugin both as a teacher and as a student. It seems to work properly. The only problem I noticed is that, on the editing page, the "Cancel" button does not work. As a student, I entered a text. Then, in order to edit my own text, I clicked the pencil sign. On the text editing page, if I want to leave the page without making any changes and click "Cancel", I stay on the same page. I can go back to the activity page only by using the browser's "go back" option. Otherwise, I need to save the text and - unnecessarily - a second version of the text is created.
good catch! I will look into this and try to include a fix for it in the next plugin release.
Thank you for your report!
is it possible to delete entries? I can't manage to find a delete button.
Thanks!
at the moment it is not possible to delete Margic entries.
We might like to use it, but we'd need to ...
- translate it in French (I'm sure it wouldn't be a problem)
- change the names and add the amount of categories (orthography, ponctuation, ...)
- allow teacher to use a grid like with the activity assignment to give feedback quickly and at the same time associate a grade to it
We have to talk to our developper (he made those plugins (https://github.com/SN-RECIT-formation-a-distance) to know if it will be possible, but I'm curious to have your input on it first.
Thanks in advance!