Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 1 – Recognition forum

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be re- yes ☐ No ☒
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Number of

Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 2
activity: weeks
Moment of
Initial ☒ Intermediate: ☐ Final ☐
evaluation:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring and
Evaluative score: 25
Evaluation
Starting date: February 5th, 2018 Closing date: February18th, 2018
Competence to develop:
Define the terminology and grammatical structure of the concepts of both the
classroom and the basic guidelines of the English course A2, for the application of
these in the development of different activities during the academic period.
Topics to develop:
General recognition of the course with all its environments and activities.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Through this activity the student will take a tour of the English classroom A2 and
complete the information requested in the guide according to the level of English
taking into account the parameters of the collaborative work.
Phase 1: Take a screenshot of your profile in this course, with all the information
updated. (include, photo and e mail)
Choose One role from the roles for collaborative work.

Phase 2: -(See the course agenda to guide the process)

About the agenda course answer the questions below:

a. How many activities do you have to do in this course? Complete this chart A.

CHART A

* In this part student ticks if there is a product to deliver

Environment to
Collaborative

Open date
Automatic

Close date
Individual

Product*
Activity #

develop
Points
Name

1 Recognition Yes Yes Yes 25 Feb Feb Collaborative/Evaluation

forum/pre- 5 18
knowledge Quiz
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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b. Each student must choose one of these questions in order to write the answer in
the forum. Only choose one.

1. Which activities from the agenda that are AUTOMATIC?

2. Which activities are COLLABORATIVE?
3. For which activity do you have to record a video, and/or arrange an
appointment with your tutor via Skype?
4. Where do you find the Study Units? How many units and subunits are there?
5. What are the names of your tutor and director of the course? What are their
Skype user and institutional mail?

Phase 3: Go to assessment and monitoring environment, do then the Previous

knowledge test and please share a screenshot of your performance in activity 2 Pre-
knowledge task As shown:

Phase 4: As a group, each student will come up with an idea to improve his/her
English skills in each category. One student completes ONE part

CHART B

ENGLISH SELF-OVERCOMING/IMPROVING PLAN

WHAT WOULD YOU DO THIS SEMESTER TO IMPROVE… (Different from course)

GRAMMAR
 LISTENING

READING

WRITING

SPEAKING

Activities to carry out

a. Each student should introduce himself/herself and invite his/her classmates to
participate in the forum. Screenshot of your profile in this course. Complete the
chart a

b. Go to the Evaluation and Monitoring Environment and present the quiz: "Activity
2: Pre-knowledge online activity"

Once the questionnaire is presented, take a screenshot of the obtained score and
upload it into the collaborative forum of the ACT.1.
c. Each group member should answer ONE the following questions in English within
the forum, without attaching any files, so that colleagues and tutor can view the
answers without downloading documents:

1. Which activities from the agenda that are AUTOMATIC?

2. Which activities are COLLABORATIVE?
3. For which activity do you have to record a video, and/or arrange an
appointment with your tutor via Skype?
4. Where do you find the Study Units? How many units and sub-units are
there?
5. What are the names of your tutor and director of the course? What are
their Skype user and institutional mail?

d. Each group member should complete ONE of the followings spaces to answer the
question

ENGLISH SELF-OVERCOMING/IMPROVING PLAN

WHAT WOULD YOU DO THIS SEMESTER TO IMPROVE… (Different from course)

GRAMMAR

LISTENING

READING

WRITING
 SPEAKING

Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
One PDF FILE
As final delivery, the students must upload the PDF file together
with all the phase in the guidelines.
PAGE ONE: Students who have participated in the collaborative
Products to
construction, date and IDs
deliver by
PAGE TWO: Collage with the Screenshots of the profile UPDATING
GROUP
PAGE THREE: Charts A and B. (One of each per group)
PAGE FOUR: Collage with the Screenshots of PRE-KNOWLEDGE
QUIZ

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric

Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☐ ☒
Activity Activity
Moment of
Initial ☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
evaluation
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
The student The student
Personal The student
introduces introduces
presentation does not
him/herself him/herself but
and participate in the
and selects a doesn´t use
profile’s/pre forum or update
role for the target language.
-knowledge his/her profile.
work. Also He/she may be 10
quiz There is no
he/she missing one of
screenshots evidence of
screenshots the two
in both having taking the
both his/her screenshots.
forum and pre-knowledge
updated He/she may
final PDF file test in the forum
profile and the /may not
 Pre- presented taken nor the final
knowledge the Pre- work
quiz. knowledge quiz
(up to 10 (up to 5
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
The student
The student
The student fills does not
fill in the chart
in the chart A but participate in the
and completes
the information forum or fill in
with all the
Participating may be the chart A.
information
in the forum incomplete or profile. There is
accurately.
and filling in inaccurate. There no evidence of 5
He/she shares
Activity is no correction having filled the
the
Chart A process in the chart n the forum
information in
forum nor the final
the forum
work
(up to 5 (up to 3
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
The student
answers ONE The student
of the The student fills does not
questions in in the chart B but participate in the
Chart B the information forum or fill in
accurately may be the chart B.
Responding
and shares incomplete or profile. There is
questions in
the answer in inaccurate. There no evidence of 5
English Chart
the forum and is no correction having filled the
B
uses English process in the chart n the forum
to construct forum nor the final
his/her work
answers
(up to 5 (up to 3
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
The student The students There is no
Collaborative participates in has a poor evidence of
forum the forum on participation at contributions to
participation time and uses the last three the forum or the 5
and final PDF English to days of the final work
file delivery communicate forum or lacks delivery and
and contribute more than one of construction
 to the final the phases
work. He/she described in the
also follows guide
his/her role
(up to 5 (up to 3
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Final score 25