Development of a moodle tool for massive group teaching, learning and management in statistics

Statistics should always be taught to groups of students no larger than 120. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. The strategies for teaching and learning Statistics to larger groups are very complex and yield questionable results. Learning Statistics often requires very personalized work that would be very difficult or simply impossible to achieve in a large classroom. Here we present an application, called UB-Tracking (UB: University of Barcelona), structured within the Moodle environment for teaching and managing large groups in Statistics. The application allows teachers to schedule various simultaneous tasks to monitor all the students, both working individually and in groups, and to profile those tasks by types of students. It also facilitates fast track display yield obtained during the course. Finally, it also provides teachers with more profitable teaching time due to the large amount of information readily available.