Multiscript - an online student-teacher collaboration platform for classroom lectures

Online collaboration on lecture contents has gained much popularity, over the few decades, due to its potential to enhance the learning experience. We propose a novel idea of an online collaboration platform, called Multiscript (MS), for the students and the teacher, on classroom lectures. MS combines two online learning approaches into a single collaboration platform. One approach, called outside-of-class-Multiscript (OCMS), is a variant of distance online learning which is applicable for the students who want to discuss the lecture slides outside of class due to certain reasons. Another approach, called inside-of-class-Multiscript (ICMS), allows online collaboration among the students and the teacher while the lecture is going on. In OCMS, the teacher can share the slides ± with audio annotations for each slides and/or a single recorded audio for the whole lecture. The students can access the slides and discuss (via text and audio chat) with their peers about the slides and annotate them, post feedback about the slide and ask questions to the teacher directly via MS platform. In ICMS, the students can create annotations for the slides and post feedback about the slides which can be read by the teacher later. MS system can be accessed by using just a web browser on any PCs, tablets, notebooks or mobile devices.