Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Step 4 – Using web tools
to design tests

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or School of education

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Professional - Specific
Course Name Materials Design for Virtual Environments
Course Code 551021
Course Type Methodological Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Individu Number of

☒ Collaborative ☐ 2
Activity: al Weeks
Final
Evaluation Initial
☐ Intermediate ☐ units 1 and ☒
Moment:
2
Total Score of the Activity: Environment to Submit the Activity:
125 Monitoring and Evaluation Environment

Starting Date of the Activity: Deadline of the Activity:

May 09th, 2020 May 22nd, 2020
Competences to Develop:

Students are aware of the importance of using updated media and

developing certain skills in the designing of specific materials for virtual
contexts in order to apply them to their professional field.

Topics to Develop:
Using web tools to design tests.
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop

This stage is going to be developed individually by designing a test to

evaluate one of the activities developed by the student for the step 3, and
the designing of a webpage to show all the materials and steps developed
for the course.
Activities to Develop

Task 1: Individual activity

1. Review the course contents, overall Hakuta, K., & Jacks, L. (2009).
Guidelines for the Assessment of English Language Learners.

2. Based on the interactive activities you designed for step 3, choose one of
them to evaluate the topic designing an online test. You can use any free
tool from the following list:

a. Poll Maker’s Quiz Maker

b. Vocabtest
c. ProProfs Quiz Maker
d. ClassMarker.com
e. GoConqr
f. Online Quiz Creator
g. Easy Test Maker
 h. Or any other you find interesting.

3. Once you designed the test, design a web page (wix) to show all the
materials and steps you develop for the course. This web must contain
the following items:

a. Self-presentation of the materials developer (you).

b. Introduction to the webpage mentioning its purpose and the
reflection you did based on your experiences as students and/or
teachers on the use of virtual learning environments.
c. The PowToon presentation you designed for step 1.
d. The Tutorial you did for step 2 based on the tool you chose.
e. The two interactive activities you designed for step 3.
f. The tests you designed for the step 4.
g. A short conclusion with your self-assessment, based on your
performance during the designing of the activities for the course
and mentioning the main issues to be considered when designing
materials for virtual environments.

4. The final document to be submitted individually to the monitoring and

evaluation environment must be a word document with a cover page, and
the link of your webpage.

This activity will be developed in the forum created in the

Environments collaborative environment just to ask some questions in
for the case of doubts or give some feedback. The final document
Development must be submitted in the monitoring and evaluation
of the Activity environment individually.

Products to be Individual:
Submitted by
Students A word or pdf document with a cover page and the link of
the webpage.
3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

students to work together in order to achieve a
common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative
work proposed for the course is based on a
structured and planned process that includes
individual and group activities, as well as
interaction and socialization in the virtual
classroom.

1. Explore the syllabus of the course.

2. Make several readings of the activity guide

Planning of and the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
Activities for the individual and collaborative work.
Development of
Collaborative
Work 3. All the activities that are carried out for the
development of the activity should be reflected
within the course through the different media
and especially in the forum of each activity,
since the interaction; if they work by Skype or
other means they should evidence it in the
forum with screenshots.

4. Be in constant communication with the

colleagues and tutor during the development of
activities.

5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the

 colleagues with time, using the various
communication channels arranged in the course.

6. Enter the contributions with time for the

Timely feedback from peers and tutor.

7. Establish a schedule of activities within each

forum and a table of roles and functions for
meet during the development of each activity.
Different roles are proposed within the
collaborative environment, which allow an
appropriate space for academic growth and
effective interaction that promotes learning and
interpersonal relationships. Every student will
take up one of these roles for the development
of the course assignments and can only be
changed if decided by the group members.

Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is

Roles to Be heard and focuses work around the learning
Performed by the task. Provides leadership and direction for the
Student in the group and suggests solutions to team problems.
Collaborative
Group
Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
are clear and accurate.

Timekeeper: Encourages the group to stay on

task. Announces when time is halfway through
and when time is nearly up.

Planner: States an action for the completion of

 the task at hand according to the instructions
and course agenda.

Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests

help from the teacher when group members
agree that they do not have the resources to
solve the problem.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who
participated on time. Informs the student in
charge of alerts about people who did not
participate and will not be included in the final
product.

Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work

follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.

Roles and Duties

Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
for the
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
Submission of
rubric and informs the student in charge of
Products by
alerts about any changes that need to be made
Students
before delivering the product.

Deliveries: 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 other 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.
References All references considered for this activity have to
be cited using APA Style
Plagiarism Policy 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 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/
4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Step 4 – Using web tools to design tests
Individu Collabor
Activity
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Moment and 2

Performa
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Levels of
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Individu
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Activity
High Average Low
Score Score Score
Test You You did 30 points
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the test the test.
designed
using the
the test
tools
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suggested
tools
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suggested
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,
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considerin
clear, or
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you did
readings
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with clear
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well reading or
designed has some
in terms grammar
of spelling and
and spelling
grammar. mistakes.
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
You 25 points
You had You did
identified
some no write
and
difficulties any
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ents.
(up to 25 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
You You
designed designed
the the
webpage webpage, You didn’t
Webpage and it but it design the 40 points
content contains does not webpage.
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requireme the
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guidelines
guidelines
in terms
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of the
of the
contents
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(all the
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tabs
tabs
required).
required).
(up to 40 (up to 20 (up to 0
points) points) points)

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has an Shows a
has some
excellent pattern of
errors in
use of errors in
Written grammar,
grammar, spelling,
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syntax
and and
and/or
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on. on.
on.
(up to 30 (up to 15 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Final Score 125