Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia
Academic and Research Vice-Rector
Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Task 3: Collaborative Assignment 1
1. General description of the Course
School or Academic Unit School of education
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Disciplinal
Course Name Pre-intermediate English
Course Code 551010
Course Type Methodological Retake yes ☐ No ☒
exam
Number of Credits 3
2. Description of the Activity
Number
Type of activity: Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 4
of weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
moment:
Environment to submit the activity: Collaborative
Total score of the activity: 100
Environment - Monitoring and evaluation environment.
Starting date of the activity:
Deadline of the activity: October 31st, 2019
October 4th, 2019
Competences to develop:
Argumentative, propositional and technological
Topics to develop:
Comparative and superlative adjectives
Step, phase or stage of the learning strategy to develop
This stage is going to be developed first individually with a comparison of some specific items and
them collaboratively by creating an online magazine to present the comparisons made by each group’s
participants.
Activities to develop
Individual activity
Study the contents for Unit 2 (course content units 5, 6, 7 and 8) and do the next activities:
1. Continue attending the weekly speaking sessions in hangouts or skype 2 days a week at a
specific schedule until the end of November. This activity will be graded the last week of
the semester.
2. Choose one of the topics proposed in the forum to make comparisons about it. Write a post in the
forum to present the chosen topic to your partners, so that they have to choose a different one.
3. Write a description of the chosen topic and write 5 comparative sentences, 3 comparisons of
equality and 3 superlative sentences about it. Post this description in the forum. Don’t attach any
file, write the texts directly in the forum.
4. Check your partners’ descriptions and make comments about them in order to improve their
descriptions.
5. After your partners’ revision and comments, edit your text (if necessary) and copy your description
and the sentences about comparisons in a power point file and post it in the forum. Use photos to
show the items you describe.
6. Choose one of the collaborative work roles to work in group with your partners.
Collaborative activity
1. All the forum participants need to design as the group’s product an online magazine in order to
present the information about the descriptions and comparisons made about each one of the
proposed topics.
2. Design a power point presentation in which you all include each participant’s descriptions and
comparisons with photos (from 10 to 15 slides). Post this presentation in the forum. After revision
of the final group’s power point presentation, turn it into a pdf file.
3. Take into account the collaborative work roles in order to work collaboratively in the forum.
4. Use the tool flipsnack to make your group’s online magazine. This website let you create online
magazines by using pdf documents. Visit the website at https://www.flipsnack.com/es/digital-
magazine/. Take into account that this tool only accepts documents with maximum 15 slides.
5. After creating the online magazine, the group’s submitter must post it in the forum.
6. The final group’s document will be the group’s power point presentation in which you include at the
end of it the link from the online magazine. Submit this document to the monitoring and evaluation
environment.
Environments for This activity will be developed in the forum created in the collaborative
the development environment. The final document must be submitted in the monitoring and
of the activity evaluation environment.
Individual:
A description and comparison of a chosen topic.
Products to be
submitted by
Collaborative:
students
An online magazine in which all the descriptions and comparisons made are going
to be presented.
General guidelines for the collaborative work
Planning of
Group discussion on the forum to design and create the power point presentation
activities for the
in which the descriptions and comparisons are going to be presented.
development of
Revision of posts to improve the written texts.
collaborative
Posting of the link of the online magazine.
work
Compiler:
Puts together the final product and includes the work done only by those who
Roles to be participated on time. Informs the student in charge of alerts about people who
performed by the did not participate and will not be included in the final product.
student in the
collaborative Reviser / editor:
group Makes sure the written work follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.
Evaluator:
Evaluates the final document to ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
rubric and informs the student in charge of alerts about any changes that need
to be made before delivering the product.
Submitter:
Student in charge of informing about the dates set for presenting each task and
delivering the final product according to the course agenda. Also informs ot her
students that the final product has been sent.
Alerts:
Informs group participants about any news in the work being done and reports
the delivery of the final product to the course tutor.
Roles and duties
for the
All the roles presented above are in charge of creating, revising, editing,
submission of
submitting the final group’s product.
products by
students
References All references considered for this activity have to be cited using APA Style
Students must be aware of the risks and penalties in case of plagiarism.
Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e) "Plagiarism is to present as
Plagiarism policy
your own work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention
carried out by another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of
references, or it includes citations where there is no match between these and
the reference" and paragraph f) " To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational
resources or results of research products, which have rights reserved for the
University ". (Acuerdo 029 - 13 De Diciembre de 2013, Artículo 99)
The academic penalties that the student will face are:
a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation,
the score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being
derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score
obtained will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.
To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved from
http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/
3. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation Rubric
Task 3: Collaborative Assignment 1
Collaborative
Activity Type: Individual Activity ☐ ☒
Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Moment Unit 2
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
Spelling and grammar Spelling and grammar Spelling and grammar
are accurate. Any are accurate. Errors are reflect errors that, at
Description: error is minor and infrequent and do not times, interfere with
20
Language infrequent and does interfere with comprehension.
points
Accuracy not interfere with comprehension.
comprehension.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points)
The sentences are The sentences are The sentences are
written correctly under written correctly under
written incorrectly
the proper heading. the proper heading. The
under the proper
The comparative / comparative/superlative
heading. The
Description: superlative adjectives adjectives are correct,
comparative 30
Comparisons are correct and but not underlined. Most
/superlative adjectives points
underlined. All of the mechanics are are not correct or not
mechanics are correct. correct. underlined. A few of the
mechanics are correct.
(Up to 30 points) (Up to 20 points) (Up to 8 points)
Evaluated Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
You commented all You commented only 1 You didn’t comment any
your partners’ ideas, or 2 of your partners’ of your partners’ ideas.
and the arguments are ideas.
Collaborative
well constructed to Your comments or 20
participation
correct your partners’ arguments are not well points
ideas. constructed to correct
partners’ ideas.
(Up to 20 points) (Up to 10 points) (Up to 0 points)
The graphics are eye- The graphics The graphics are not
Online catching and highly satisfactorily express at relevant to the
10
magazine: relevant to one or least one of the main headlines or are missing
points
graphics more of the headlines. ideas. entirely
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 7 points) (Up to 0 points)
Navigation of the site Navigation is reasonably Site is difficult to
is clear, easy and easy, and the menu navigate and has no
Online
intuitive. Menu links links are somewhat obvious menu links. 10
magazine:
are straightforward clear. points
usability
and accessible.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 7 points) (Up to 0 points)
The document includes The final document was
The document includes
Content of the some but not all the not submitted by any 10
all suggested items.
final product suggested items student. points
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 7 points) (Up to 0 points)
100
Final score
Points
