It's a non-academic use, but the judges for the ENnies (the 'Oscars' of the role-playing world) are using Google Docs to track receipt of books, etc., that have been entered and for recording our initial opinions in the various categories - as the judges are scattered worldwide in the US and a single one in the UK (me) it is proving quite a good way to coordinate our efforts. We are using spreadsheets for both purposes.
Megan
ILT Champion, City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College
ENnies Judge, 2010 :-)
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From: Virtual Learning Environments on behalf of Martine Fryer
Sent: Tue 15/09/2009 09:13
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VLES] Innovative ways of online assessing
Hi Emma et al
Thank you for your reply. It will be interesting to see how Google docs
can be used for collaborative work.
With regard to e-portfolios, we are going to have a look at Mahara
(http://mahara.org/)
as it can be linked with Moodle. It may be useful for a personal
development plan and the developers are looking at ways of making it
portable so that students can take it with them. I did have a brief look
at Pebblepad via the CPD so that is another option - although I did not
find it very intuitive, but perhaps I need to spend a bit more time on
it.
Martine
Martine Fryer
Senior Lecturer
Teaching and Learning Mentor for e-learning
South Downs College
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From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Emma Duke-Williams
Sent: 14 September 2009 13:29
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Innovative ways of online assessing
>>> On 14 September 2009 at 08:18, Martine Fryer
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Are there innovative ways of assessing students work online? I am
> researching into methods of online assessments mainly for summative
> purposes. The Open University ask students to upload their MS Word
> created assessments and these are marked online using comments, then
> returned to students. This was the same method used at the University
of
> Portsmouth for the MSc in e-Learning Technologies which was an online
> course. However, I am interested in any other online methods that
would
> be accepted by examining boards and universities.
As someone who taught Martine & assessed her work via the VLE (and other
ways), I'll add a few comments myself.
I agree with Ray & others in that formative assessment can be easily
done on the computer - and give an auditable trail. I'm not as sure as
Ray that ePortfolios are the way to go; however, I've not seen any
really good examples of how they're used (and we have just introduced
the WEbCT Vista one) - mostly, from what I've seen they're used as
summative - and staff, rather than student, controlled repositories.
I guess with everything, the tool's only as good as the person directing
its use!
However, to answer Martine's question; I've also used discussion posts
in the VLE - students have to contribute a certain number (a mark for
participation) & I also select key weeks when I look at what they've
said.
When we had WebCT campus, I used Craig Spooner's very useful BB to DB
converter ( http://www.craigspooner.com/BBDB/ ) - which made the whole
process v. easy. It doesn't work with WebCT Vista & to date I've not
found a way of locating posts quite so easily. (WebCT Vista's definitely
easier than Campus was, but not as easy as Craig's tool made it)
I've also had students contribute to a wiki (submission = the URL & the
dumped Wiki from Wikispaces).
This upcoming academic year all students now have Google Docs, so am
thinking of using that for group work (and can be used formatively for
comments during the process - keeping the comments in a way that doesn't
always happen in Word)
Emma
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