PCD Awards
SUBMISSION FORM - PCD Tools Category

(Development Tools that help create PCD Solutions)

Submission Deadline 1 August 2006 (before midnight GMT -4:00)

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Extraordinary PCD Tools are technologies (tools, products, protocol) that were not previously available commercially or otherwise.  Innovative PCD Tools and Techniques are things that facilitate embedding support into other software, act as agents to deliver decision support at the time of need, integrate disparate end-user software, help anticipate and resolve performance challenges, use general inference techniques to eliminate complexity, reduce the need for conventional IT support, replace more conventional means of support, and the like.  These can be new components of existing PCD Tools and Techniques if they are sufficiently unique.

Excellent examples of Extraordinary Performance Centered Design Tools are those that facilitate creating and integrating performance support environments, such as alternate interfaces, merging disparate systems (via interface integration, middleware, agents, and the like); capturing and disseminating business processes and best practices; improving business processes; embedding “wizards” and other productivity enhancers into existing systems; providing decision support and workflow support; providing resources to quickly troubleshoot problems, answer customer questions, and the like.  Any tool that clearly stands head-and-shoulders above the rest in its category - or that defines a unique category -  for enhancing the creation of EPSS / Performance-Centered Solutions is a candidate for an Extraordinary PCD Tool.  Hardware and hardware devices that fit this description are also candidates.





Entry Title Intrique e-Learning Solutions
Submitted by: Cahaya Motivasi Sdn. Bhd.
Contact Name: Nancy Chin Ah Lan / Alex P'ng Chian Meng
Phone: +60129898106 / +60123957400
E-mail: nancychin05@yahoo.com / alex@intrique.cc
Address: Cahaya Motivasi Sdn. Bhd.
8A (First Floor),
Jalan SS3/33,
Taman Universiti.
47300 Petaling Jaya.
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Malaysia.
Logo:
Classification and state of deployment:

Please classify your entry:

 

Comprehensive performance-centered web-based portal development tool

Comprehensive performance-centered content/learning/knowledge management system development tool

 

Specialty performance support tool that address one or more elements of the PCD lifecyle:

Process/workflow modeling and/or simulation

User experience, interface development/generation, usability

Content, information, knowledge engineering

Real-time assembly of performance objects

Other specialty tools that address PCD lifecycle element(s) (describe)

Other (describe):

 

 

This entry is (check one):   
In production (being used today in a live work setting)         
In a formative stage (prototype, proof-of-concept, introduced a sample of its intended users)    

SHOW SCREEN SHOTS, ANIMATION (e.g., FLASH movie, animated gif or dynamic HTML) OR PROVIDE LINKS TO SUCH SAMPLES THAT SUPPORT YOUR RESPONSES.   You must provide the judges with as vivid a representation of the tool user's experience.  If you are providing links to a restricted site, please provide six (6) user names and passwords.

http://www.intrique.cc/pcdawards/

In addition, you may be asked to demonstrate your tool to the judges at a mutually convenient time via a Webex or similar session (scheduled by EPSScentral).

Product / Component Name & Brief Description: Name: Intrique Learning Engine
Description: Is a highly customized e-learning Management System (eLMS) that manages the linking of content, exam simulation and reporting activities to enhance the learning process of students and teachers in Malaysia.
Vendor: same as above
Operating Environment:
  1. Server: Dell 1U Rack Server with:
    • Dual Intel Xeon Processor 2.4GHz
    • 2048 MB ECC RAM
    • 2 SCSI 73.3 GB U320 Hard Disk
    • Embedded Dual Gigabit Ethernet Ports
  2. Connectivity
    • 2Mbps SDSL Dedicated
  3. Operating System
    • Windows 2003 Server Web Edition
  4. Database Server
    • MySQL 5.0.0.5
  5. Server Side Technologies Employed
    • Apache Web Server
    • Active PERL 5.8.7. Build 813
  6. Content Production Technologies
    • Microsoft Powerpoint
    • Macromedia Flash
    • Sony Vegas 6.0
 
Product/Component Detailed Description: Intrique Learning Engine is a Learning Management System that allows users to enhance their performance in the following areas:
  1. For Students
    1. Identifying weak areas/topics for students throughout their studying effort
    2. Allowing them to learn where they have gone wrong and then redo the exercise to score better marks
    3. Increase their performance in terms of confidence for the real examinations
  2. For Parents
    1. Parents need not waste time in pouring through a student's home work book to determine if he/she is doing well as all the reporting is already online and results can be deduced at a glance.
    2. Parents can help with remedial work or additional tutoring if a student is found to be persistently weak in an area.
    3. Parents know with confidence that their child is doing well or otherwise.
  3. For Teachers
    1. Teachers do not need to waste time in compiling quiz/exercise/exam simulation papers as all the resources are now available online.
    2. Teachers are able to share the question pool and able to draw the expertise from other teachers all around the country.
    3. Teachers find it easier to see who's weak in what areas at a glance from the class based and student based reporting system.
    4. Teachers are able to use the Intrique Learning Engine to help with the learning process as learning and teaching tools are bundled with the portal for teachers.
Product use: Intrique Learning Engine is used by students to:
  1. Progress ahead in their studies on their own if they are brighter students.
  2. Revise what topics that have been taught at school for the day.
  3. Catch up on studies if they have been left behind or learn at a slower pace in class.
  4. Gain familiarity with the actual examination environment so that they can perform better in the exams.
  5. Gauge their level of understanding of a certain topic.
  6. Track their progress as they go through their studies.

Parents of the students are able to:

  1. Check on the performance of the child.
  2. Check on the weak learning areas of the child.
  3. Use the tool to obtain further remedial solutions if the need arises.
  4. Check to see if a child has been learning and using the portal well.

It is also used by teachers to:

  1. Assign homework to students.
  2. Keep track of assigned homework.
  3. Check if students understood the lesson for the day.
  4. Send periodic reports to parents, so that parents too can get involved in the learning process.
Deliverables provided and samples:
  1. Teachers produce easy to mark assignments for students. Other methods do not allow the assignment of papers.
  2. Teachers can email results to parents for review and parental involvement.
  3. Students produce results when sitting for real examinations at school and public exams. Other methods have not proven to be sufficiently successful at raising the performance of the students as Intrique.cc.

Please refer to online URL http://www.intrique.cc/pcdawards/ where a walkthrough is supplied.
What difference does this tool make?
  1. Students experience:
    • More confidence in an exam
    • Better performance and lesson retention at school
    • Pick up disciplined self-paced INDEPENDENT learning skills and techniques.
    • Less pressure from peers.
    • More free time to their own.
  2. Parents appreciate:
    • Peace of mind from knowing that revision and study is being done by the child everyday.
    • Status of Child's level of performance.
    • User friendly, Straightforward, timely, no-nonsense reports allows time to prepare remedial measures, BEFORE it's too late.
  3. Teachers benefit from having a:
    • tool to create, store and assign SELF-ASSESSING homework to students that can be shared by other teachers that contribute to the question pool.
    • teaching AID that they can use to supplement the learning material in the class.
    • Quick comparison of who's doing well and who's not from class based and student based reports.
    • Teachers can allocate more time on preparing more meaningful/resourceful ways of delivering learning material to the students, instead of spending time on writing on the board.
What else makes this tool extraordinary? Intrique has been equipped with a very versatile questions engine that is able to support MULTIPLE subjective answers in a single question. The teacher or content provider can choose to accept the answer set in an orderly or non-orderly fashion and also specify if the answers should be CASE SENSITIVE or otherwise.