Food Safety CAI from the College of Veterinary Medicine

Welcome! This site provides distance learning exercises in food safety and foodborne diseases over the World Wide Web. Student progress through each computer-assisted instruction (CAI) lesson is monitored by "Tracker", a client-based system developed through a USDA-CSREES Higher Education Challenge Grant.

Tracker includes the following features:

• Response judging and scoring - evaluates and scores student responses to individual questions and each lesson overall.
• Intelligent sequencing - user progression through each lesson is contingent upon completion of lesson sequence prerequites.
• Context-sensitive help - help available on demand throughout each lesson.
• Distance learning support - instructor can assign lessons without any intervention. Student progress can be monitored through e-mail verification or captured on a local server.
• Platform independence - each lesson can be run using any Java capable browser, such as Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 4.x.
• Server independence - all functions are performed on the user's computer.
• Transportability - lesson modules can be distributed and run over the World Wide Web, on CD-ROM, or other high-density media.
• Easy editing - file name, location, and most recent revision are listed at the bottom of each page to facilitate editing. Lesson content can be edited with any text editor.
• Intechangeable authoring tools - each lesson includes a number of client-side modules and help reference pages that can be used for authoring other lessons.
• Feedback to the authors - users can provide feedback to authors through e-mail links or forms.

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