At the moment, the Add-on having the closest feature to managing groups is the Leaderboard. This gamification add-on uses stats such as streaks and retention rates etc. as scores and sends them to the server.
So I think it would be possible to customize this Add-on to increase the data sent to the server and display graphs, etc. on the administration screen.
Not really. Itâs monitoring, not control although grading continuous Anki practice as a weighted component in the studentâs evaluation could be a valuable incentive.
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I am a student so I know how scary even monitoring can be when itâs teachers who are involved. Maybe in some countries education system is so progressive that students arenât scared of teachers anymore. Well teachers are getting less âscaryâ around the world I think but I still wouldnât want my teachers to be looking at my terrible anki heatmap. Sir if I was your student I wouldnât even have started this conversation (lol). I think there is a need to be highly selective with the data that should be monitored. Heatmaps are not fine! I can miss a day because I went partying but the teachers need not know that.
Thank you for the response. Of course if a student is using Anki on his/her own, sheâs entitled to decide on her own with whom to share statistics or not.
Here however, daily Anki practice is a required homework assignment. The heatmap is equivalent to handing in the homework for grading. A student who hasnât maintained daily practice (or at least 5 times a week) hasnât done his homework.
Testing the acquired knowledge would work better.
Guiding the students to use it would work too. Giving Anki as assignments can become counterproductive. They can just press Good on all cards and call it a day. It may be a method they donât like. I know there are things I donât like even when theyâre efficient/effective.
But even if stats are required I think at least they shouldnât be too precise about when a person does his cards, stuff like those. A breach of privacy IMO.
âTesting the acquired knowledge would work betterâ. Definitely, but itâs not one against the other but rather both. Iâll explain:
Anki is for the motivated, self disciplined student, which most pupils in K-12 education are not. To that end, acquiring the habit of daily practice is an educational aim in its own right.
Students will always find innovative new ways to cheat. Itâs a non-ending game but in general, most students are honest.
Many of the capabilities for rewiring Anki are removed in a managed model.
The student gains nothing in terms of grade from answering good on every card. Weâre looking for acquisition, not prior knowledge. I would suggest generating personally tailored tests based on acquisition on which students who were consistent (and I would detract from the grade for non-persistence) are tested on what they acquired guaranteeing them a good grade, a prime incentive.
Incentives are the name of the game. One of the main aims of this discussion thread should be devising incentive strategies.
Again, Iâm not relating to todayâs individual, installable Anki but to a managed, hosted version in which the user need to know nothing about most of Ankiâs functions. It should come preconfigured and adjustable by the teachers/educators.
Another important point is to minimize teacher involvement, reducing it to just determining the practice material and monitoring statistics, which should be easily available on a whole-class basis.
More on this coming up. All experience earned through hard knocks with high school and jr. hi students.
Yitzhak
Hello,
I come from this discussion: âcustom-sync-server-for-teachersâ (canât post link)
From the absence of answer to this question, I take it that this project would be closed source, but I would be interested to know if anyone attempted something like that (maybe less ambitious) as an open source project.
Thanks !
Here you go!
Also, copying my comment from there:
Might be good to work with an university-affiliated education researcher who could contribute an article about Anki/FSRS to the US Department of Educationâs Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) or What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) good practice repositories.
According to AnkiHub co-founder andrewsanchez, Anki was mentioned at this yearâs Annual Conference of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE).
Poster & Oral Presenters (June 15 - 18, 2024)
an interesting Reddit post about using Anki in schools:
reddit r/anki: A year of Anki in my Classroom
I ran a group correlation test and a Spearmanâs test on a group of 74 students, and these are my results. My main focuses were time studied, cards studied and the number of mature cards.
Students who studied more Anki cards scored on average 27% higher than those who studied fewer cards. Interestingly, mature cards had a much weaker relationship, with only a 5% higher score. The total time studied had the lowest impact, with only a 4% increase in score.
Thank you.
(I didnât have time to send everything below earlier; I just typed it up and went to work. Now, from the discussion there, itâs clear that all these questions have already been asked of the author, and comments have been made about a less-than-reliable study.)
But I wasnât at all surprised by âStudents who studied more Anki cards scored on average 27% higher than those who studied fewer cards.â
There are students who learn faster, and their scores will be higher anyway. When they want to prove something, they take two identical groups of people (or something), one uses Method 1, the other uses Method 2, and then compare the results to see which is more effective. If thereâs only one person, then Iâll use Method 1 for a month, say, then Iâll use Method 2 for a month, and then I can compare which I know or remember better.
And when the author writes: âBut also to avoid them getting stuck in a loop, I had the âAgainâ timer set to 30 minutes. Which meant they would see that card maybe once more this session and then again the next week.â I see this as a violation of the Anki principle, since the time intervals are no longer the same. No, I fully trust that a person can memorize in one sitting, but the percentage of people who do so is negligible. Even mnemonic techniques determine that memorization can take 0.8 seconds (the world record), up to 6 seconds (the standard for mnemonists), and 10-30 seconds is somewhere recommended for regular Anki users. Then, the review time is mandatory for the first 40-60 minutes (Anki is 10 minutes). I still prefer to set an hour after these 10 minutes and actually repeat before bed, rather than exactly after an hour. Research shows that memory is best achieved when rested (after sleep, for example) and before bed if youâve focused your mind on a specific problem. A certain mnemonic author recommends repeating for 3-4 days, then repeating every 45-60 daysâthen youâll never forget it. Anki doesnât work that way; it might be that if you havenât forgotten it after 10 years, youâll remember it next time in 20 years. It doesnât take into account your aging or anything else. Iâd do selective repetition, about 3-5% of the material per year. If you remember almost everything from a deck, thereâs no point in wasting time repeating it all.