[Building Sakai] Assignment import/export

[Jeff Ziegler]

Agreed.  And so is the idea to give instructors an option to allow  
students to share and comment on each other's submissions.

Jeff





On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) wrote:

> Yes.  And that's a very good idea for improving the Assignments tool.
>
> Yitna Firdyiwek
> Faculty Consultant, Instructional Technology
> Teaching Resource Center
> Univerisity of Virginia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sean at keesler.org [mailto:sean at keesler.org] On Behalf Of Sean  
> Keesler
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:36 AM
> To: Jeff Ziegler
> Cc: Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u); Sakai Dev
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Assignment import/export
>
> The "sharing" I am referring to is related to the assignment
> description...the name of the assignment, the instructions, etc. as a
> way for teachers to collaborate on a set of department assignments
> that meet department needs.
>
> Very different than sharing student work done in response to those  
> assignments.
>
> Sean Keesler
> 130 Academy Street
> Manlius, New York 13104 USA
> 315-663-7756
> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
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>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Ziegler <ziegler at umich.edu>  
> wrote:
>> On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) wrote:
>>
>> Another feature we sorely miss in the Assignments tool (one of our  
>> legacy
>> systems used to be able to do it) is to be able to let students  
>> share and
>> comment on each other's assignments submissions (if the instructor  
>> wants
>> them to) in groups or as a whole class.  This is a more  
>> complicated request,
>> of course, but I wanted to mention it in the context of improving the
>> Assignments tool.
>>
>> Questions on how students can share and provide feedback on  
>> assignment
>> submissions are pretty common at UMIch.  To accomplish this goal, we
>> recommend creating Discussions or Forums topics and having  
>> students post
>> their submissions, but it would be nice if the ability to share  
>> submissions
>> was added to Assignments.
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Firdyiwek, Yitna (ybf2u) wrote:
>>
>> That's a great idea.  We have a couple of departments that are  
>> using sites
>> to collect assignments, but they are doing it in document form (in
>> resources).  Simplifying the import/export process would make the
>> assignments that much more valuable for the faculty who use them.
>> Another feature we sorely miss in the Assignments tool (one of our  
>> legacy
>> systems used to be able to do it) is to be able to let students  
>> share and
>> comment on each other's assignments submissions (if the instructor  
>> wants
>> them to) in groups or as a whole class.  This is a more  
>> complicated request,
>> of course, but I wanted to mention it in the context of improving the
>> Assignments tool.
>> Yitna Firdyiwek
>> yitna at virginia.edu
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>> [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of  
>> Sean Keesler
>> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:54 AM
>> To: Sakai Dev
>> Subject: [Building Sakai] Assignment import/export
>> Has anyone ever had the need to import/export assignments?
>> The idea being that teachers might want to be able to share examples
>> of good assignments or collect and organize them in a central site  
>> for
>> sharing.
>> It would seem that an assignment description and supporting files
>> could be zipped up easily enough.
>>
>> Sean Keesler
>> 130 Academy Street
>> Manlius, New York 13104 USA
>> 315-663-7756
>> sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
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