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Ability to create "Assignment / Accountability Interactions" for non-graded activities in a Course #17

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Talk to Don and see spec from Deb Wood 2/16/2008 attached

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jlb1...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2008 at 12:59

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I'm not sure about Deb's Accountability Interactions, but we need to define an 
assignement.  An assignment is essentially an assignment "posting" that the 
facilitator issues, which is seen by the students.  An assignment will have a 
title, 
a clearly defined task, a point value, a due date, assignment type (currently 
there 
are only two types 1) Essay, and 2) Collaboration), Response Length (e.g. 500 
Words 
+ or - 50), the grading type (i.e. 0-100%, pass/fail, complete, etc.), and 
extra 
credit.  When creating the assignment, the facilitator will have the option to 
add 
the assignment to the gradebook, which will then cause the system to expect 
grading 
for each student for the assignment.  

For an Essay assignment, the student will click on the assignment from the 
student 
center and will be presented with a screen that will list the assignment at the 
top 
and provide a text input box below (it will also provide a word count feature 
underneath the text input box). When the student finishes their entry, they 
will 
press a submit button, which will save their response in the database (time & 
date 
stamped) and can be viewable by the facilitator -- probably from the "Class 
Assignments" screen.  When the student submits the assignment, the system will 
automatically give "Participation" credit to this student for this assignment. 
This 
will probably be an integer value of 1 (0 if the assignment is not submitted) - 
an 
on going participation tally will be recorded in the database to alleviate the 
system from having to talley the participation scores for each student whenever 
the 
gradebook is opened.

The facilitator can click on the a assignment to review it and respond to the 
student's response.  This will provide feedback to the student about various 
things, 
including their demonstrated understanding of the subject, their ability to 
articulate their point about the subject, correction of their mistakes and 
misunderstandings, etc.  Before pressing the "Record Grade", the facilitator 
must 
enter a grade for the student's response.  The grading options that will be 
displayed will depend on how the assignment was originally defined. If it's a 
0-100% 
grade, then the instructor can enter the number in a text box; if it's 
pass/fail, 
then it can be selected by a radio button option for Pass or Fail; if it's just 
a "Complete" type of grade, then the instructor will manually check a checkbox 
that 
indicates completion status.  When the grade is recorded, the facilitator will 
press 
the "Record Grade" button, which will save the grade in the gradebook.

We plan to have flags that will inform the facilitator if there are ungraded 
assignments that need to be graded. There will also be an indicator of the 
urgency 
for grading (based on the due date) -- this will probably be color coding.

Original comment by don...@gmail.com on 25 Feb 2008 at 6:55