New technology requires new tools, and teachers working on-line need facilities which are just not available in a standard web browser or word-processor.
Students submit their work as word-processor documents via email, and teachers need to be able to mark and return these documents as quickly and easily as they can mark work submitted on paper.
Markin is a smart and reliableprogram which runs on the teacher's computer. It can import a student's text for marking by pasting from the clipboard, or directly from an RTF or text file.
Once the text has been imported, Markin provides all the tools a teacher needs to mark and annotate the text.
Here are some key features of "Markin":
· Importing Student Text
· Adding Marks and Comments
· Exporting Marked Work
· Returning Marked Work To The Student
· When marking is complete, the teacher can export the marked text as an RTF file for loading into a word-processor, or as a web page so that students can view the marked text in a web browser. Marked work can even be emailed directly back to the student, all from within the Markin program.
· Statistics - analysis of marks in any number of marked files, formatted for easy pasting into a spreadsheet.
· XML support - all Markin files are stored as XML data for easy integration into database environments.
· Useful Text and Useful Links - you can compile lists of web page addresses and pieces of text which you use frequently when marking, and insert them into your comments and annotations with just a couple of mouse-clicks.
· Auto-Marking - the program can automtically enter the same mark for every incidence of a particular error.
· Translation - you can use features in the latest version of Markin to translate the "User Interface", the technical name for the words shown in the program's menus and windows. Translated User Interfaces can be shared with other users - see non-English Versions for details.
· Email Marked Work Back To Students - the program contains its own email section, where you can store the email addresses of your students. Once the address is entered, you can send a piece of marked work back to a student just with a couple of mouse-clicks.
Limitations:
· restricted to marking very short texts. To mark longer texts, you have to register the program and make a payment
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Multilingual Installation - The Markin installer now includes an option to install the program with a French, Spanish, German or Danish interface. For more information, click the flags below.
· Keyboard Shortcuts for Annotation Buttons - You can now use keyboard shortcuts to add annotations, as well as by clicking with a mouse.
· New Web-Page Output Format - A new output format has been added, with support for Netscape 6 , Internet Explorer 6 , Mozilla, and other current browsers. It combines the appearance of the RTF output with the functionality of the interactive HTML output.
· Printing Support Added To HTML - The page allows colour and monochrome printable versions to be generated, obviating the need to use the RTF output, and also allows the student to generate a complete annotation key.
· Improved Text Format Preservation - Font and paragraph styles are now carried over from the source text into the RTF and HTML output.
· Support for URLs in Annotations - URL linking (using the e...
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