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.
Products to PAGE ONE: Students who have participated in the collaborative
deliver by construction, date and IDs
GROUP PAGE TWO: Collage with the Screenshots of the profile UPDATING
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
Activity type: ☐ Collaborative 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 introduces introduces The student does
presentation him/herself him/herself but not participate in
and and selects a doesn´t use the forum or
profile’s/pre- role for the target language. update his/her
knowledge work. Also He/she may be profile. There is
10
quiz he/she missing one of no evidence of
screenshots screenshots the two having taking the
in both forum both his/her screenshots. pre-knowledge
and final PDF updated He/she may /may test in the forum
file profile and the not presented nor the final work
Pre- taken the Pre-
 knowledge knowledge quiz
quiz.
(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student The student
The student fills
fill in the chart does not
in the chart A but
and completes participate in the
the information
with all the forum or fill in
Participating may be
information the chart A.
in the forum incomplete or
accurately. profile. There is
and filling in inaccurate. There 5
He/she shares no evidence of
Activity Chart is no correction
the having filled the
A process in the
information in chart n the forum
forum
the forum nor the final work
(up to 5
(up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
answers ONE
of the The student fills The student does
questions in in the chart B but not participate in
Chart B the information the forum or fill
accurately may be in 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 work
his/her
answers
(up to 5
(up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student The students has
participates in a poor There is no
Collaborative the forum on participation at evidence of
forum time and uses the last three contributions to
participation English to days of the the forum or the 5
and final PDF communicate forum or lacks final work
file delivery and contribute more than one of delivery and
to the final the phases construction
work. He/she described in the
also follows guide
his/her role
(up to 5
(up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Final score 25