Tool to monitor students' contribution in a wiki-based group work assignment

Abstract

Wiki is an online platform that support collaborative authoring tool. It comes with lots of feature to enable students and instructor working together to develop a written manuscript. However, when wiki used as a media for learning environment it needs additional tool to monitor and report students' contribution. This paper reports on the development of a tool to monitor students' contribution in a wiki-based group work assignment. This is a further work from previous project of developing assessment framework for an online group task. These works include designing database, designing interface and implementing algorithm to monitor and create report of students' work. Data used in this study was taken from a basic computer and programming unit in the Bachelor Electrical Engineering Petra Christian University. Data has been collected from a Wiki log file. The results show that this monitoring tool helps students and instructor to maintain the progress of individuals' efforts of the cohort. Furthermore, it gives better picture on how individuals performs in an online learning environment.