Your teacher created a Course Knowledge Graph to help you learn the subjects within your course. A Course Knowledge Graph is there to help you understand how knowledge is related to each other and what knowledge is prerequisite knowledge for other knowledge. This can help you learn more effectively when struggling or progressing through your course.
For example: Subject A and B are prerequisite knowledge for Subject C. If you are struggling with Subject C, you can know use this information to go back to Subject A and/or Subject B to recap that knowledge before going back to Subject C.
Below each of the features is shortly explained and it is outlined how you can use the feature to your advantage while learning.
Course Knowledge Graph
If your teacher created the Course Knowledge Graph and also enabled it for you to see, you can view the knowledge graph within that course. You can do so by switching from "list" to "graph" view.
This allows you to see how all of the subjects listed in your course are related to each other from a "prerequisite knowledge" point of view. Use this as a tool to better understand how you are progressing through the course. By default you will always see the course overview in the "list" view. That shows you all the modules with their subjects and tests as organised by your teacher.
NOTE: Tests are not shown in the graph, only subjects are shown. If you are looking for a (bonus) test, use the "list" view.
Prerequisite Subjects
If you open a subject within your course, you will see additional information at the bottom of the block. This shows information about the prerequisites of the subject you just opened. You can use this in multiple ways.
View Prerequisite Subjects
At the bottom of the block a list is shown which contains the following information:
A list of each of the prerequisite Subjects related to the subject you just opened.
For each of these items you current estimated mastery.
You can use this information to determine whether you want to refresh/recap some of the prerequisite subjects before starting with the subject you just selected.
Recap/refresh Prerequisite Subjects
If you want to recap/refresh specific prerequisite subjects, you can click on them to go to that specific subject. This allows you to learn effectively by addressing the prerequisite subjects you might still be struggling with before taking on the learning of the next subject.
In addition, you might see the "Practice all prerequisite subjects". This will start a practice session of maximum 6 exercises, which will randomly select exercises from the prerequisite subjects. You can do this multiple times and you can also freely skip through the exercises if you want to. The goal is to help you recap/refresh the prerequisite knowledge.
NOTE: the "mastery" of the subjects won't be updated based on the "Practice all prerequisite subjects". So don't worry about skipping through too many exercises. However, if you want to get feedback on which subjects you might be struggling with, you should try to answer the exercises given to you.
Updates of mastery (i.e. Colors on your Course Overview)
When you are doing normal practice sessions on a subjets of the course, you will always see that the "estimated mastery" is updated for that subject.
With the Course Knowledge Graph enabled, we will also update the prerequisite subjects mastery accordingly. The logic for this is as follows:
If you have mastered a subject, you probably also know the prerequisite subjects.
If you have not mastered a subject, you probably don't master the follow-up subjects as well.
This means we will perform the following updates to help you identify where you might still be struggling with:
If you mastered a subject, we will update the prerequisite subjects accordingly depending on the current mastery estimation:
No estimate available: updated to Maybe Mastered.
Not Mastered: updated to Maybe Mastered
Maybe Mastered: updated to Mastered.
If you scored low (<50%), we think you do not master a subject. We will update the follow-up knowledge accordingly depending on the current mastery estimation:
Mastered: updated to Maybe Mastered.
Prerequisite Course
Your teacher might also have added prerequisite course learning materials. These are subjects for which it is assumed you already master them at the start of the course. To help you recap/refresh some of that knowledge, you can go to the prerequisite course via the following ways:
Via the graph, where the subjects from the prerequisite course are shown in a grey color instead of white (and with a dashed border).
Via the "go to prerequisite course" button on the course overview page.
By clicking a prerequisite subject on the course subject page.
Diagnostic Assessment
Your course can also include a Diagnostic Assessment. This is shown as a test in your course. This is an adaptive test that helps pinpoint exactly where you stand in your course. It finds the topics you've mastered and, more importantly, where your understanding starts to get shaky. Don't worry if you get questions wrong; that's just the test working to identify the areas where you need to focus.
Once you are done with the test, you will be shown the results on the Course Knowledge Graph. Use this information to see where you can focus your learning efforts by identifying where your knowledge becomes a bit shaky and what parts you already master.
Click on the graph to get a full-screen view of the Course Knowledge Graph with the results of your Diagnostic Assessment.
Questions or feedback?
The above features are all there to help you learn more effectively, by helping you understand how the knowledge is related to each other and giving you insights into your current status.
Do you have feedback on how we can improve things? Or questions on how to use/interpret the features/information? Please do reach out to us!