Upgrade: iOBE Calculator v3.2

Download: iOBE Calculator v3.2 (updated 15/3/2016)

The upgrades in iOBE Calculator v3.2 are mainly on improving the filters to detect errors in the input data.

They ensure that the input data are valid before being processed in the software. Without these upgrades, small errors in the input data (e.g., wrong assignments of marks or matrix mapping) would go undetected and thus invalidate the results produced by the software.

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Upgrade: iOBE Software v3.1

Download the software modules and their associated input files:

1. iOBE Calculator v3.1 (updated 2/3/2016)
2. iOBE Aggregator v3.1 (updated 2/3/2016)
3. Users need to download the Matlab Compiler (MCR v8.15); read further here.

Upgrades in v3.0:

1. Both modules were produced using Matlab 2015 (with better visual quality of the graphics); the previous versions use Matlab 2011.
2. More information have been added as outputs from the software.

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Sample graphical outputs with the new upgrades from both modules are shown below:

iOBE Calculator v3.0 (analysis for a single course):
Figures 1, 2 & 3: Outcomes data for collective groups of students in the course.

Figures 4 & 5: Outcomes data for a student in the course.

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iOBE Aggregator v3.0 (analysis for multiple courses):
Figures 1 & 2: Outcomes data for collective groups of students, aggregated from multiple courses.

Figure 3: Outcomes data for a student, aggregated from multiple courses.

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Upgrade: iOBE Aggregator v2.4

Download software & sample input files: iOBE Aggregator v2.4 (updated 1/2/2016)

The upgrades in iOBE Aggegator v2.4 are:

1. Students' individual marks and outcomes bands, as aggregated from all their enrolled courses, have been added into the output graphs and the corresponding text files.
2. The axes of the output graphs are now properly labelled (in the previous versions, the labels were not shown due to the limited space in the output windows).

There are now 5 output graphs for the aggregated analysis of a group of courses, as shown below. (The input files of this sample case are included in the downloadable files above.)

The analysis of a student, as aggregated from the courses that he/she has enrolled in, are shown in 3 graphs:

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Upgrade: iOBE Calculator v2.4

Download software and sample input files: iOBE Calculator v2.4 (updated 1/2/2016).

The upgrades in iOBE Calculator v2.4 are:

1. Students' individual marks and outcomes bands have been added into the output graphs and the corresponding text files.
2. The axes of the output graphs are now properly labelled (in the previous versions, the labels were not shown due to the limited space in the output windows).

There are now 7 output graphs for the overall analysis of a course, as shown below. (The input files of this sample case are included in the downloadable files above.)

As for the analysis of individual students in the course, there are 5 output graphs, as shown below.

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Upgrade: iOBE Calculator v2.1

The upgrades in iOBE Calculator v2.1 are:

1. The size of the main window panel of this software has been resized into a smaller input console. The console only contains the push-buttons to initiate computations and tabs to input/display text. In the previous versions, the main window is a fixed-size input/output panel containing these buttons, tabs, and six output graphs; these made the window size too large to be displayed in laptops with small screens.
2. The software is able to compute data for all class sizes, including small classes of 2 to 5 students (except for a class with 1 student). Previously, the software were not able to compute data for small class of 5 students or less.

The input console is shown below, with the same buttons and tabs as in the previous versions:

The outputs are displayed as graphs in two separate windows (as shown below) and as text files to display their numerical values. The graph-windows are now resizable (compared to the windows of the previous vesions, which had fixed sizes). Users can easily change the window size according to their needs.

iOBE Calculator v2.1 can be downloaded here. The manual and the compiler can be downloaded here.

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