I would like to create an assignment for my students, in which they have to find new words for a given topic and enter them into a course’s glossary. In the past I have just had students add new entries into the glossary, however the grading for this method is very convoluted, has anyone devised a better way to achieve an assignment like this?
Currently my method is to have my students enter terms into the primary glossary, I then approve all the entries, and sort the entries by author. I then look for the number of entries each student has put inot the glossary and I look. I would like to be able to do this as an activity, so that the scores are contained in one place and can be transferred much easier.
It wouldn't meet the requirement. The point is to assign a grade without having to rate each entry, and even without rating any entry. This is particularly important where the activity grade is not a simple aggregation of the entries' ratings. Consider, for instance, that each entry could be evaluated as Good but the overall would be Excellent, taking into account also number of constributions or some other factor. In such a case you can't get the overall from an aggregation, and rating Excellent a representative entry may give the wrong impression about the actual evaluation of the particular entry.
This is the solutiont that I am looking for both from a function standpoint and a pedagogy standpoint. I want the students not only to be able to complete a terminology type of assignment, but also use that assignment to build a functional glossary resource and ultimately to take it a step further and have them (the students) peer-review material for quality, for this I will end up using the rating system.
