Hi Roger,

As you've identified, group submission of work is a feature lacking from many VLE's - probably because it is so complicated to implement, and to still make it easy to use. In Hull's Merlin environment we all have a portfolio which we can split into sections and allocate co-authors and audience for each section. When we are happy with a piece of work (usually a Word document) then it gets placed into the Portfolio and is submitted to the audience.

We don't have digital signatures. Instead, each Word document we submit contains a cover page with a disclaimer about plagiarism etc... Submitting via Merlin is seen as authentication in itself.

I can recommend talking to the people at Hull about this, as they've been working with Merlin in this way for several years now.

Cheers,

Mark


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Hi Rachel,

Hope you're well.

We are doing a very limited amout of e-submission both through Learnwise and Moodle but this is set to increase over time.
A few thoughts regarding issues I've already identified:

Group projects - There's a few issues around how group work is uploaded, marked and recorded such as:
Should one person from the group be responsible for uploading the project or should each student upload the same project under their own account so it appears as submitted in all their names - then how do we tell the students actually all did upload the same bit of work and which one should we mark? This leads to the need for some sort of group upload functionality such that one student can upload one piece of work that is automatically attributed to all the others in the group. It gets more complicated if there is peer reviewed marking/weighting etc. Then with all the above in mind how does the system feed the results into the student records system.

Non electronic work - an obvious issue, but our Art students would have trouble uploading an 8 foot canvas! This also goes for other areas where sketches (design/fashion/architecture etc), or logbooks (sciences/engineering), or portfolios of non-digital evidence (law, education, yacht building etc) are required to be submitted.

Accessibility and students personal IT provision - will there be other channels for submission should the student be unable to use the electronic submission and would this disadvantage them in any way?

Currently our students have to sign to say its their own work etc. How do we deal with digital signatures, identity of student logged on etc and plagiarism?

These are questions rather than answers as we are no very far down that road yet. Just head scratching like you.


Roger

Roger Emery
Southampton Solent University






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Hi everyone,



At the Universityof Northampton, we are running a small pilot using Blackboard to allow students to electronically submit their work.  We don't think this will be an ideal solution for all students so would like to find out if and how other institutions allow electronic submission?



If you could share your experiences and thoughts about e-submission with me, I would be happy to summarize for the list.



Many thanks,



Rachel



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