Software
A suite of software tools to support the Cultura method has been developed by staff at MIT. Features include:
- Athentication and authorization features, for student and instructor roles.
- Support for multiple languages, including those using non-Western scripts.
- Simple creation of questionnaires.
- A question bank, allowing reuse of questions.
- Publication of questionnaires with a single mouse-click. (Until then, questionnaires are hidden from student view.)
- Ability to review and edit student responses before making them available for viewing.
- Integrated discussion board.
Technical requirements are simple: A web server running PHP (version 4 or greater) and MySQL.
The Cultura tools are available to interested parties under a Creative Commons license (noncommercial, share-alike, with attribution). For information, or to obtain the software, contact cultura-tools <at> mit <dot> edu.
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