now I have a very headache day.. I set an assignment by asking two questions on forum and ask students to post their answers in the forum so that everyone can see.
Here come the problem, marking !! it seems like my assignment is the combination between journal and forum.
There're 130 students in this course.This isn't an ideal situation !! so what I have to do now is read the answers then write on their marks on paper ... But hang on... 130 students are from 5 different classes of the same level.
I see that the forum can be rated but in terms of connected knowing , separate knowing etc. so I wonder if I could change this to scale 1-10 then automatically showing this rating/marking as in assignment module.
I wish there's an easy way to identify which class each student belongs to and also their student registration number.
I think teaching one course for more than one class isn't a good idea here because when it comes to the marking ...grading.. that's where the pain start!!
Probably... I will have to give up.
I think all this will be much easier in future versions (probably 1.1 or 1.2) because of two features currently in (paused) development:
- Groups, you will be able to define sub-groups of the people enrolled in a course, and all the modules will offer options that use groups
- The new journal module will allow forum-like discussions attached to each entry that may be private, but may also be made public blog-style (to the group or to the whole course).
In your situation one thing you could do using the current toolset is to ask them to post their initial answers to an "eachuser" forum, ask the others to respond to each other and discuss the results, then ask everyone to submit their final answers as an actual assignment.
- Groups, you will be able to define sub-groups of the people enrolled in a course, and all the modules will offer options that use groups
- The new journal module will allow forum-like discussions attached to each entry that may be private, but may also be made public blog-style (to the group or to the whole course).
In your situation one thing you could do using the current toolset is to ask them to post their initial answers to an "eachuser" forum, ask the others to respond to each other and discuss the results, then ask everyone to submit their final answers as an actual assignment.
M minkowski: I wish there's an easy way to identify which class each student belongs to and also their student registration number.
The student user profile does contain a field for an ID number. Perhaps you could use that for the registration number??
Martin Dougiamas: Groups, you will be able to define sub-groups of the people enrolled in a course, and all the modules will offer options that use groups
And when the teacher posts to one board might she have the option of simultaneously posting to all the boards in the group? The same for creating activities like assignments and quizzes? This would be extremely cool.
To deal with groups I tried making a Category for the class as a whole, and then individual classes for each group. But there was the problem of duplicating some activities (not all are duplicated).
I'm getting around repeating some things by writing them on an "external" web page that can be linked to each of the "class" groups.
Martin Dougiamas: - The new journal module will allow forum-like discussions attached to each entry that may be private, but may also be made public blog-style (to the group or to the whole course).
So each individual student has his or her own journal. Is the journal as a whole toggled public/private or does it have separate sections so that parts can be private and parts public? It'd be REAL nice to have a printer-formatted option on both journals and forums.
Martin Dougiamas: - In your situation one thing you could do using the current toolset is to ask them to post their initial answers to an "eachuser" forum, ask the others to respond to each other and discuss the results, then ask everyone to submit their final answers as an actual assignment.
This works very well with a collaborative group I'm involved with. Students (from two different universities, hundreds of miles apart) are divided into groups, or teams. And each group produces one research project. They use online tools, calendars, webboards, talker, video conferencing and netmeeting to collaborate.
The student user profile does contain a field for an ID number. Perhaps you could use that for the registration number??
Martin Dougiamas: Groups, you will be able to define sub-groups of the people enrolled in a course, and all the modules will offer options that use groups
And when the teacher posts to one board might she have the option of simultaneously posting to all the boards in the group? The same for creating activities like assignments and quizzes? This would be extremely cool.
To deal with groups I tried making a Category for the class as a whole, and then individual classes for each group. But there was the problem of duplicating some activities (not all are duplicated).
I'm getting around repeating some things by writing them on an "external" web page that can be linked to each of the "class" groups.
Martin Dougiamas: - The new journal module will allow forum-like discussions attached to each entry that may be private, but may also be made public blog-style (to the group or to the whole course).
So each individual student has his or her own journal. Is the journal as a whole toggled public/private or does it have separate sections so that parts can be private and parts public? It'd be REAL nice to have a printer-formatted option on both journals and forums.
Martin Dougiamas: - In your situation one thing you could do using the current toolset is to ask them to post their initial answers to an "eachuser" forum, ask the others to respond to each other and discuss the results, then ask everyone to submit their final answers as an actual assignment.
This works very well with a collaborative group I'm involved with. Students (from two different universities, hundreds of miles apart) are divided into groups, or teams. And each group produces one research project. They use online tools, calendars, webboards, talker, video conferencing and netmeeting to collaborate.