Budapest Annual Meeting

2016

DEVELOPMENT OF A CHEMICAL

DRAWING PROGRAM THAT

PROVIDES SCIENTIFICALLY

CORRECT AND ENGAGING FIRST

IMPRESSION FOR STUDENTS

Nishana Sunder

Evolution of Educational System

Projector &

Transparent

Slides

Whiteboard

& Marker

Blackboard

& Chalk

Video

conferencing

Video

Lessons

Wireless

Technology

Internet Technology

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New ways to teach and learn chemistry…

http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/34786/organic-conversion-benzene-to-3-bromoiodobenzene

https://speedypaper.com/

http://thisisitphilly.com/homework-help-for-chemistry-problems-high-school/

From chalk to white board

From notebook

to online

homework

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http://www.usnews.com/education/online-education/articles/2014/08/05/quiz-how-much-do-you-know-

about-online-learning/1

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CHEMAXON TOOLS ENHANCE ONLINE

EDUCATION

USE CASES…

MasteringChemistry:

389,788 registrations

Mastering:

Over 1.7 million registrations

as of 2014

Marvin JS goes to College…Drawing tool for MasteringChemistry

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Marvin JS in Mastering Chemistry

A user friendly tool for quick and

convenient drawing of chemical structures

and mechanisms

Student benefits:

• New user friendly interface

• Faster load times

• No JAVA!

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The Power of Mastering

Using specific evaluators, authors

can write targeted feedback geared

toward specific student answers

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The Power of Mastering

Feedback can also be authored for

more general criteria

And there is also system

generated feedback for basic

drawing issues

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Marvin JS in WebAssign

WebAssign enables instructors to write their own questions with Marvin JS embedded

Randomization is fully supported through MRV and SMILES

Questions can ask students to complete a structure, correct a structure, or create one from scratch

WebAssign with Marvin JS enables authors to compose questions on specific concepts

See the following examples for:

Hund’s Rule

Kekule's Model

Applied Mass Spectrometry

Stepwise Reaction Mechanisms

WebAssign makes significant use of Marvin JS

Over 230 questions in General Chemistry original WebAssign content

Over 60% of questions for a typical Organic Chemistry text

Embedded step-wise tutorials to walk students through multi-step mechanisms and reaction

processes

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Example Question 1: Hund’s

Rule

• Displaying instructor view• Showing Answer Key

• Hund’s Rule compliant

answer keys are

supported

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Example Question 2:

Kekule's model

• Starting point template is

provided to the student• Narrows the focus of the

student to the specific concept

in question

• Multiple possible correct

answers can be graded• Answer key display controlled

by instructor: never, after

assignment closes, etc…

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• Probes students’

understanding of

advanced concepts• Ionization and fragmentation

• Special microtutorials for

Marvin JS “how-to”• Links embedded in the question

• Instructors can enable/disable

Example Question 3: Applied

Mass Spectrometry

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Marvin JS at uOttawaEnglish/French

Learn the rules

Site’s features

Help getting started

Start quickly

Customized learning

Question types

Difficulty level

Categories

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Features: Identify the Functional

Group

Decision tree

Fun facts!

Result

(right/wrong)

Correct answer

See the answer

(counts as incorrect)

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Features: Name the Molecule

Hints are

question-specific

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Features: Draw the Molecule

Hints are question-

specific

Fun facts!

The student’s answer is recognized, no

matter how it is drawn

View the answer if desired

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Marvin JS is Integrated into OWL

Chemistry Homework at UMass

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Organic Chemistry Example

Answer pageQuestion

page

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Marvin JS at University of Prague

Homework

and test

preparation

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Marvin JS in Concept Mastery • over 25,000 pre-built questions

into pools (100-400 questions

per pool) based on a specific

concept (SN2, SN1, Diels-Alder,

Wittig…

• Students have to draw the

product of a reaction or draw a

structure with the provided name

• one attempt per question/answer

is provided

• Real strength: students draw like

they will do during a test AND

this is also autogradable

“Marvin JS integrated with our editing

software to make this an easy and

seamless process”

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Marvin JS in Reaction Explorer

• 100,000 reaction flash cards with

accompanying mechanism and synthesis

questions

• students need to draw the correct electron flow

arrows on pre-populated reactants to show the

mechanism of the reaction

• Marvin JS allows (and requires) the students to

show regiochemistry of mechanisms through

the use of dotted lines in electron flow arrows

• in this database, students do not need to draw

the product since the software will predict/draw

the product based on the electron flow arrows

that the student has drawn.

“Marvin JS is great for these type of

questions”

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Marvin JS in End of Chapter/ Testbank

• Marvin JS for all types of drawing questions

(over 10,000)

• one specific type (multi-step mechanisms),

students need to draw the electron flow arrows,

reaction arrow, products, lone pairs, formula

• “Because of the flexibility of Marvin JS and our

various databases, we are able to give

students multiple ways of practicing reactions,

mechanism and synthesis, which are all

required for organic chemistry but now can be

done in an online, autogradable format”

“Marvin JS works great for these

and all our drawing problems”

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Marvin JS in SmartWork5

- online homework

system

- available for class test

by 2nd quarter of 2016

- student view prior to

answer entry

- view with a student

drawn answer

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Marvin JS in ACE Organic

Web-based

interactive

Organic Chemistry

homework program

Effective teaching tool

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Marvin Live as

Office hours

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CHEMAXON TOOLS ENHANCE ONLINE

EDUCATION AND BEYOND…

From Class to Real Life

From classrooms to real life jobs…

Marvin JS and Marvin Live has been

used in the industry by scientists to easily:

- Draw molecules

- Draw reactions

- Design new molecules

- Plan synthetic reactions

- Brainstorm ideas….

- Communicate between different

sites & with collaborators and

CROs (Contract Research

Organizations)

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Pharmaceutical and

Biotech Industry – Drug

Discovery

General Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry

Petrochemistry

AgrochemistryFlavors and Fragrances

Food Industry

Publishers

Chemical Catalog Companies

Industries with a success story

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• Aurora Costache

• Efi Hoffmann

• J Zane Barlow

• Margaret Trombley

• Jeanne Zalesky

• Mike Warner

• Dakin Sharum

Acknowledgements

• Robert B. Grossman

• Kristine Ruff

• Sean P. Hickey

• Mark Lipowicz

• Carlos Faerman

• Jürgen Swienty-Busch

• Stefan Roller

• Allison Flynn

• Jeanette Canon

• Jamey Laroche

• Cindy Stein

• Nathan Schnarr

• Martin Mastny

• Christine Pruis

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THANK YOU