Monitoring of learner activity on Self Study Material Contribution and Sharing System

Recently, higher education (university education, lifelog education and so on) by e-learning has been getting increased by the development of information and communication technology. Higher education organizations have to prepare e-Learning contents appropriately. it is generally hard for e-Learning contents developers (including instructors and so on) to quickly prepare e-Learning contents with appropriate quality and quantity in short period because of heavy load for creating the contents. We proposed and prototyped an a Self Study Material Contribution and Sharing System called "S-Quiz" in which learners can make and share multi-choice questions as e-Learning contents in order to clear this problem. Learners behave as contents developers so that they create e-Learning contents they need in S-Quiz. In addition, our system provides a learning environment wherein learners can freely use the contents as common learning resources. However, this learning situation is ideal based on learners\´ spontaneous and positive activities. Generally, high spontaneous and positive activities cannot be expected. Therefore, we add a function which monitors learners\´ activities. For enhancing spontaneous and positive activities, we think teachers use this function. We believe that learners\´ activity can be guaranteed based on teacher control with the monitoring functions. This paper reports outlines of SQuiz and the monitoring function for teachers to check the learner\´s activity.