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Teachers and Developers: Searching for a common
language
Susana Martínez Naharro
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
Overview
• Sakai in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia: Data of our first academic year.
• Help desk: Key Areas
• Searching a shared language– Pedagogical language: Teacher functions– Technical language: Developments in tools
Sakai data in the UPV:
• Pilot running during 2006• Full production System in 2006/2007
– 5 servers– More than 4.500 sites – More than 40.000 students
• Based on the 2.1.2 version– Customized to university requirements
HELP DESK: Key Areas
TRAINING
USER SUPPORT
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION
Dissemination & Information
• Communication campaigns
- Sakai’s home page & Home page of each site
- News about: new developments, changes, training courses, actions related with new technologies…
NEWS
HELP DESK: Key Areas
TRAINING
USER SUPPORT
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION
TRAINING• COURSES:
– Teachers – University staff– Specific degrees– Freshmen teachers– Teacher assistants– Students
• E-LEARNING COURSES:– HELP ZONE FOR TEACHERS– HELP ZONE FOR STUDENTS
HELP DESK: Key Areas
TRAINING
USER SUPPORT
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION
Users
Phone 77750
E-Mail [email protected]
Web Form
e-mail response
1st levelResponse
2nd levelResponse
3rd levelResponse
Help Zoneforum
Suggestions from live courses
PoliformaT
Technical issues
Polimedia
Contents
Technical Opreator
Integration
Didactic issues
Surveys
On line
Guides
Dissemination
PoliformaT tools
Melete
Help Desk
Operators
IncidenceData base
FAQ’s
IncidencesAdquisition
Staff
User support framework at UPV
HELP DESK: Key Areas
TRAINING
USER SUPPORT
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION
Feedback received
• Suggestions• Complaints• Queries about pedagogical use of some tools• Needs to use PoliformaT in some specifics
subjects, and peculiar cases• Doubts about the implementation process
Evaluation Meetings
• Meeting attendees: Developers and Pedagogues and Project leaders.
• Frequency: monthly• Goal: To evaluate the teacher’s proposals for
improvements and make decisions• Results: New developments, Refused proposals,
study of other alternatives
Suggestions made: Code
Category Code
Incidence description Comments
Register date Development Planning
Recurrence State
Suggestions made: Fields
LANGUAGE SUBJECTS GROUPS SYLLABUS
ANNOUNCEMENTS CONNECTION ASSIGNMENTS RESOURCES
RESOURCES STATISTICS TRAINING MESSAGE CENTER
MODULES ICONS SUPPORT CHAT ROOM
GRADEBOOK PUBLIC PART PLATFORM GRADEBOOK
ROLES DROP BOX TESTS & QUIZZES
MODULES
FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS
EVALUATIONEVALUATION
TECHNICALTECHNICAL SOCIALSOCIAL
ACADEMIC /WORK
ACADEMIC /WORK
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
TEACHERTEACHER
TEACHER FUNCTIONS:
ORGANIZATION &
PLANNING
SUBJECTS:-Catalan version of Sakai-Identify the users by Name and surname-Have statistic data about access, actions…-Possibility to test their actions in platform by student role.
SYLLABUS:-Add new icon events to syllabus-Connect with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS
EVALUATIONEVALUATION
TECHNICALTECHNICAL SOCIALSOCIAL
ACADEMIC /WORK
ACADEMIC /WORK
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
TEACHERTEACHER
TEACHER FUNCTIONS:
ACADEMIC / WORK
Assignment:-Possibility to make a personal sort list -Publish an assignment for an specific group: Team Work-Limit the access to IP address
Content:Modules: - Put an itinerary to be followed by students- Several authors in copyright- Printable version of contents- Extra support questionsResources:- Introduce a search engine to bibliography and connect to UPV library- Personal sort list to resources and files
FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS
EVALUATIONEVALUATION
TECHNICALTECHNICAL SOCIALSOCIAL
ACADEMIC /WORK
ACADEMIC /WORK
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
TEACHERTEACHER
TEACHER FUNCTIONS:
SOCIAL
Private Message Center Area:-Know who is sending the message in -Mark answered messages-Add several attached fileChat Room:-Show several chat rooms-Unplug the chat room temporarily-Access to different chat rooms at the same timeDiscussion Forums:-Make more simple the Template SettingsGroups:-Use tools by groups-Groups with a specific date and hour-Add more group categories
FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS
EVALUATIONEVALUATION
TECHNICALTECHNICAL SOCIALSOCIAL
ACADEMIC /WORK
ACADEMIC /WORK
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
TEACHERTEACHER
TEACHER FUNCTIONS:
TECHNICAL
- Offer technical support to students: An on line support “Zona de ayuda” (Assistance Zone for students)
FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS
EVALUATIONEVALUATION
TECHNICALTECHNICAL SOCIALSOCIAL
ACADEMIC /WORK
ACADEMIC /WORK
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
ORGANIZATION& PLANNING
TEACHERTEACHER
TEACHER FUNCTIONS:
EVALUATION
Test & Quizzes:-Share Question Pools by teachers-Add equations and formulas to editors-Insert images from local pc-Penalize the mistakes in assessments-New opportunity to do an assessment-Change the settings of a published assessment-Possibility to import Question Pools-Increase speed of Tests & QuizzesGrade book:-Import data from Excel-Adjust grade in negative-Weight grades
THE FUTURE:
TRAINING
-Courses about Sakai-Specific courses: Evaluation, Contents authoriting-Courses about new developments-Courses about quality in teaching across a LMS.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
- LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORY- VirtualLAB TOOL: test different graphic results- POLIMEDIA: to edit multimedia contents
