danaleeling

Data explorations form the core for assessment in MS 150 Statistics. Students are given data and questions to be answered about the data. How students choose to answer the question, what statistical approach they take, provides insights into what they have learned. One such data exploration is determining what variable an exercise app is using to calculate the calories burned during a run. The following is the setup for this data exploration. Along with MS 150 Statistics I am also the instructor for ESS 101w Walking for Fitness online. In that course the students and I use the Strava app to track distance, time, pace, and calories. The distance is measured using satellites in low earth orbit, the time is measured by the clock, and the pace is measured using the satellite data and the clock. Calories burned cannot be directly measured by a cell phone app. Thus the calories are a calculated quantity. Strava only uses one of the measurements to calculate the calories - either ...

The default desktop display for Moodle My Courses images on course cards is roughly 20:9. The course card images above are 1600 × 720 pixels. The photographs are each 800 × 720.  In the Moodle app on Android on a smartphone the images appear to be closer to 32:9, cropping the top and bottom only of the 20:9 image. Running the Moodle app on a Chromebook results in a different card layout. The course card images are a square from the middle of the course card images. This only occurs in the Moodle app on a Chromebook, not in the Chrome browser on a Chromebook.