the student work sample dilemma
Suggestions appreciated.
My job seems to not have a lot of people able or willing to think through logistics. So help me so I can help them and that will help me. See? :)
Goal: Get a work sample from each student for each of their classes each month
The trickery-ness: This is an online school. Some files can be pulled from their courses directly, but this is extremely time consuming (ie go to a single class, find student, find assignment, rather rinse repeat). Alternatively, students could submit it but it's hard to get high school students in a distance learning program to a) do it and b) do it correctly. I think they can be trained if we make it important to them, but I'd like to avoid making it their responsibility if possible. They have enough to do. And most likely, they would not submit the graded assignment. We need the graded one. We could have teachers do it, but that can also be very time consuming and then it'd have to be re-organized by kid. It seems like there should be some automated-ness to this. Oh, and right now we only have about 250 kids but that is expected to grow rapidly so something more automated or simple and easy would be good.
We've vaguely discussed asking the teacher to cc someone when returning an assignment to a student (but some go through online dropboxes, not email) or creating folders on some commonly accessible area and having teachers "file" them but that seems like lots of work and chaos.
Honestly, I'm really stumped for how to do this best online. Any thoughts (even crazy ones) appreciated. :) Oh, but don't put too much time or energy into it because I might not yet have the authority to be listened to.
My job seems to not have a lot of people able or willing to think through logistics. So help me so I can help them and that will help me. See? :)
Goal: Get a work sample from each student for each of their classes each month
The trickery-ness: This is an online school. Some files can be pulled from their courses directly, but this is extremely time consuming (ie go to a single class, find student, find assignment, rather rinse repeat). Alternatively, students could submit it but it's hard to get high school students in a distance learning program to a) do it and b) do it correctly. I think they can be trained if we make it important to them, but I'd like to avoid making it their responsibility if possible. They have enough to do. And most likely, they would not submit the graded assignment. We need the graded one. We could have teachers do it, but that can also be very time consuming and then it'd have to be re-organized by kid. It seems like there should be some automated-ness to this. Oh, and right now we only have about 250 kids but that is expected to grow rapidly so something more automated or simple and easy would be good.
We've vaguely discussed asking the teacher to cc someone when returning an assignment to a student (but some go through online dropboxes, not email) or creating folders on some commonly accessible area and having teachers "file" them but that seems like lots of work and chaos.
Honestly, I'm really stumped for how to do this best online. Any thoughts (even crazy ones) appreciated. :) Oh, but don't put too much time or energy into it because I might not yet have the authority to be listened to.