The teacher can use lines to link the tests with specific objectives and help the students integrate the parts of the course. Those lines can also be thick or thin, solid or dotted, colored and overlapped. In context, reading those visual cues can help. This line-drawing exercise process might enlighten all of us. Let's say I had a version of the above concept map specifically for this course.
Grades tend to be higher when the students' and teachers' concept maps are more similar.
Examples You can use concept maps for brainstorming your own projects. You can also use them to analyze and describe the structure of other people's Web sites and hypertexts. The University of West Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition has free Concept Mapping Software for you to download and try. Construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. The toolkit is platform independent and network enabled, allowing the users to build, and collaborate during the construction of concept maps with colleagues anywhere on the network, as well as, share and navigate through others' models distributed on servers throughout Internet.