Dear all
A tutor I work with needs to distribute a number of project briefs
and collect students' first and second choices of project plus
their comments - in order to allocate projects. There are circa 15
projects and 35 students, so the information is potentially
time-consuming to collate and analyse.
A brilliant way to do this would be using a shared Excel document
or online database (such as the facility in Yahoo groups). A
survey or poll would only work if data was associated with an
individual (not so in Bb). I've been racking my brains for the
most efficient way to do this with Bb and have come up with the
following non-elegant methods:
1
Tutor posts Excel (or Word table) doc in group area or discussion
message - each student opens, edits and reposts the new version
(but hard to keep track of versions)
2
Tutor creates a quiz containing at least one tutor-marked section
The procedure for accessing student input is: go to Control
Panel/Online Gradebook/Spreadsheet view. Click on the ! for any
student who has submitted to see their exact reponses. This data
can't be exported but can be copied and pasted as text into a Word
doc or similar. Give the student a notional zero grade for the
comments question when their results have been collected. You will
then be able to see from the spreadsheet view who's submitted and
which responses have been collected and noted.
Advantages -
quick for student to submit, obvious at a glance who has and
hasn't submitted, each project brief document can be attached to
project name in the preference list for student easy reference
Disadvantages -
not possible to compile table of results automatically (though cut
and paste possible), needs instructions to students specifying
that this is not really a test
3
Tutor posts request in discussion board containing a simple text
form for students to copy and paste into their reply,adding their
choices and comments in the appropriate places
Folks, have I missed any less tortuous way of doing it?
Thanks
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Williams
Instructional Designer
Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies
University of Cambridge
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