Students feedback

Students were asked to give a feedback to the teacher, in class, during the last lesson of the semester. After they listed the things they would like to keep, to change and to add to the course, they had to give their priority based on each of the 3 lists.
DAD appeared in the "to keep" list. When this list was refined by priority, DAD was second in the list. DAD also appeared in the "to change" list. In that list, students ranked "being able to answer to the feedback of the teacher" third and a few improvement expressed in class forth. The will of students to answer to the teacher's feedback was a surprise, because DAD has been designed to support their learning and not as a channel to communicate. But this idea and the other ones expressed in class will be implemented in future releases of DAD.
Students also mentionned that they would like to be able to access to what they submitted. This was not possible in DAD and it's a technical problem that has to be fixed quickly.

Conclusion

Even if there a lot of space for improvement in DAD, it appears to please most of the students. Students completed most of the tasks even if they were all optional.
It also seem to fit their needs, at least for most of the students. They took advantage of being assessed whenever and if they want, and to submit a task several times if needed.
If the students' motivation couldn't evaluated, their feedback was largely positive.
A few privacy concerns need to be fix before releasing the software. The code will be released on Github (https://github.com/grolimur/DAD) later this year and a demo version will be set up in order to let interested people test it.
As the software interface is developped in French, the translation (in English first) is planned.
Some competition features could also be implemented in future versions like the current higher score, "your rank is x" or "this week x students achieved y tasks, and you?". However, these future features will come with the possibility to opt-out because competition os not always good for learning.

Appendix: List of activities

This is the list of tasks available during the 2016-2017 course (translated from French).
1. Share a reading relevant for the course (1 point)
2. Share a tool useful in a teaching/learning context (1 point)
3. Share an online course related with the course topic (1 point)
4. Share a mobile app useful in a teaching/learning context (1 point)
5. Bonus for achieving 1, 2, 3, and 4 (1 point)
6. Write the script of a video tutorial (2 points)
7. Produce a short video tutorial (2 points)
8. Make a 5 minutes presentation of a reading or a tool in front of the class (3 points)
9. Make a 5 minutes presentation of a reading or a tool to the teacher (2 points)
10. Define a concept related to teaching/learning not seen in class yet (2 points)
11. Understand an explaination only made with icons, no text (1 point)
12. Give an explanation only with icons, no text (2 points)
13. Explain the structure of a permanent identifier only with icons, no text (2 points)
14. Bonus for achieving 11, 12 and 13 (1 point)
15. Create a checklist with all the elements needed (1 point)
16. Create a checklist easy to use (1 point)
17. Create a checklist with relevant elements (1 point)
18. Create a checklistwith a neat layout (1 point)
19. Create a lesson plan understandable (2 points)
20. Create a lesson plan with all the elements needed (2 points)
21. Create a lesson plan with a realistic timing (2 points)
22. Create a lesson plan with a neat layout (2 points)
23. Doing the peer-grading exercise with care (8 points)
24. Define a teaching method not seen in class yet (2 points)