How we measure against the learning technologies
InteDashboard empowers instructors to deliver a consistent team-based learning experience to their students. Find out how we measure against existing learning technologies.
Learning Management System vs. InteDashboard
A learning management system (LMS) is a software for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses. It is used at an institution-level to manage all educators, students, and courses. A few educators use LMS to conduct some of the TBL activities, but majority of them feel that LMS is a great tool for sharing prework with students, but it is not a specialized tool to conduct TBL classes.
Learning Management System vs. InteDashboard
A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses. It is used at an institution-level to manage all educators, students, and courses. Many educators have used LMS to conduct their Team-based Learning classes, but majority of them feel that LMS is a great tool for sharing prework and other information with students, but it is not a specialized tool to conduct TBL classes.
Learning Management System vs InteDashboard
Comparison Metric
LMS
InteDashboard
Share prework with students
Yes
Yes
Conduct individual quiz (iRAT)
Yes
Yes
Conduct team readiness assurance test (tRAT) with immediate feedback
No
Yes
Decremental scoring for TRAT
No
No
Set up clarifications in real-time
No
Yes
Conduct Applications
Limited
Yes
Conduct e-Gallery walk
No
Yes
Conduct peer evaluation
Limited
Yes
Compare students' and team’s performance in real-time
No
Yes
Streamline and scale TBL classes
No
Yes
Conduct TBL in online and hybrid modality
Limited
Yes
Audience Response System
vs. InteDashboard
Audience response systems (ARS) are used to create interactivity between the educator and students. Some student response systems are paired with mobile devices and/or physical clicker devices to improve classroom engagement. Such systems allow educators to take attendance, create polls and get students to vote for specific class activities. ARS doesn't fulfil the purpose of conducting a TBL class. Educators often use multiple tools in addition to ARS to conduct TBL classes.
Audience Response System vs InteDashboard
Comparison Metric
ARS
InteDashboard
Share prework with students
Yes
Yes
Conduct individual quiz (iRAT)
No
Yes
Conduct individual quiz with confidence -based testing
No
Yes
Conduct team readiness assurance test (tRAT) with immediate feedback
No
Yes
Set up decremental scoring for TRAT
No
Yes
Set up clarifications in real-time
No
Yes
Set up application activity
Limited
Yes
Simultaneously reveal team application responses
No
Yes
Conduct e-Gallery walk
Limited
Yes
Conduct peer evaluation
No
Yes
Conduct TBL in online and hybrid modality
Limited
Yes
Paper-based TBL Methods
vs. InteDashboard
The benefits of team-based learning are known to most educators, but sometimes they are reluctant to implement TBL due to administrative hassle and excessive time required to set up, grade and manage team activities. We have found that digital TBL can resolve most administrative hassles, automate grading and save faculty time.
Paper-based TBL Methods
vs. Intedashboard
Benefits of Team-Based Learning are known to most educators, but sometimes they are reluctant to implement TBL due to administrative hassle and excessive time required to setup, grade and manage team activites. We have found that digital TBL can resolve most administrative hassles, automate grading and save faculty time.
Paper-based TBL Methods vs InteDashboard
Comparison Criteria
Paper-based
Buy InteDashboard
Set Up Time
Avg. 3-5 hours
Initial set up: avg. 2-3 hours, after that 15-30 minutes
Grading Time
Avg. 3-6 hours
Zero minutes
Activity Time Management
Difficult to manage
Easily controlled
Class Setting
Limited to in-person class setting
Can be extended to in-person, hybrid and online modality
Grading
Manual
Automated
Simultaneous Visual Reporting
Not much visibility into individual and team performances
High visibility into individual and team performances
Measuring the Learning Outcome Impact
Difficult to measure; often delayed
Measured in real-time
Grading of Activites
Delayed
Real-time
Clarifications
Delayed
Real-time
Consistency
Inconsistent experience
Consistent experience
Environmental Friendliness
Extensive use of paper
Paperless solution
Real-time Student Progress
Not available
Always available during and after the class
Historical Analysis of Student Performance
Not available
Easily comparable
Question Quality
Unknown
Known
Course Content Relevance
Based on intuition
Data-driven
Data Management
Data is stored on various files and can easily get lost
Available in Grade Table and can be exported to Excel
Class Management
Difficult as number of students increase
Easily manageable for class size up to 1000 students
Need for a team-based learning system
In 2010, educators at Duke-NUS Medical School needed a learning tool to teach their team-based learning classes effectively, without the hassle of paper-based techniques.
However, nothing on the market met their requirements of implementing a core TBL-process driven class, including readiness assurance tests, application cases and peer evaluation. InteDashboard was born out of delivering that need.
Are you considering building your own internal TBL system vs buying InteDashboard? Here is our analysis:
Decision Criteria
Build Your Own App
Buy InteDashboard
Lead Time
Your institution has 12 to 18 months to work on the project
Your institution wants a system up and running in less than 3 months
Feature Requirements
- Your institution has unique requirements, different from TBL process used by other institutions
- Your institution has unique requirements, different from TBL process used
Your institution follows a standardized TBL process
Faculty Availability
Faculty time is available to explain the
requirements to the technical team
Faculty time is not available
Talent Availability
Technical team’s time is available, and they
understand the nuances of TBL process
Technical resources are limited or
other projects
Vendor Credibility
No credible vendor exists
Credible vendor is available
Opportunity Cost
There are no other priorities or upcoming
projects
- There are other priorities, such as accreditations, curriculum mapping, etc.
- New programs are getting introduced
Upfront Cost
Budget is available to make a large investment
Budget is limited
Ongoing Cost
Budget is available to manage maintenance
cost
Budget is not available
Upgradation Cost
Budget is available to manage application
upgradation
Budget is not available
Training
- Resources and trainers are available to
train new professors - Faculty training on the software can be
challenging
- Resources and trainers aren’t available
- Time constrained: Need to train faculty
in 2-3 days
Support
Assigned personnel on technical team to
handle support request from educators and
students
No dedicated personnel to assist the educators and students with technicalities of the platform
Risk Appetite
Ready to take risk on investment, and have
assurance on student and educator buy-in
Don’t want any risk on investment, and are
unsure of student and educator buy-in
What we and many TBL institutes have found is that buying InteDashboard allows you to:
- Save faculty and technology (IT) teams’ time
- Benefit from continued enhancement in functionality and regular new feature upgradation
- Provide access to a network of TBL educators across the world
- Customize platform to meet your institute’s TBL requirements
- Save cost on building, maintaining and upgradation