Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Faculty of Education

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional

Academic Field Disciplinary

Course Name Intro English

Course Code 551007
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Numbe
Type of the Individua Collaborativ
☐ ☒ r of 4
activity: l e
weeks
Unit
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediat ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
e:
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the
activity: 65 points activity: Monitoring and evaluation
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
Thursday, 6th September 2018 Wednesday, 3rd October 2018
Competence to develop:

The student can establish basic social contact by using the simplest
everyday polite forms of: greetings and farewells; introductions;
saying please, thank you, sorry, etc

Topics to develop:

Unit 1. Sign in.

Unit 2. My profile.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Task 3 – Introduction. To introduce oneself and create own portfolio.

Activities to develop

1. Study Units 1 and 2 in the E-Book and develop all the activities
there. (only for practicing, do not send them)
2. Present the quiz of the units 1 and 2, which is in the link: Task 2
-first part: quiz 1 in the Monitoring and Evaluation environment.
Score: 25 points
3. Go to the listening task of unit 2:

Link:

https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/intro_english/Unit2/40_unit_task/40_unit
_task.html

Develop the activity with all the answers, then take a screenshot and
paste it in a Word document.

4. Taking into account the models of introduction in the previous

exercise, write your own information in the Word document,
including: name, last name, spelling of your name, age, place of
work, occupation, interests, ID number, E-mail and place where
you live. Include your favorite sport and your favorite food.
Add photographs of your favorite free-time activity, sport and food.

Socialize your document with the listening exercise and your personal
information in the forum: Units 1 and 2. Task 3: introduce oneself and
partners indicating personal information

Read all the participations and greet your partners in the forum taking
into account the expressions in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=m9Cda9xyMr0&index=3&list=PLJ3X0XM_SmvOnV2GsHY0ZAPP315c
e2iFZ

Choose one partner’s information and introduce him or her in the

forum, in third person.

Example:
This is Camilo Castro, C-A-M-I-L-O C-A-S-T-R-O, he is 30 years old, he
works at UNAD, and he is a virtual tutor, his ID number is …. Camilo
likes to play the guitar and to read books in English. His e-mail is…
Camilo lives in … his favorite sport is … and his favorite food is…

Watch this video, pay attention to the pronunciation and practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SYYLe06dJjE&list=PLJ3X0XM_SmvOnV2GsHY0ZAPP315ce2iFZ

After practicing the pronunciation, each student records his or her

profile and the partner’s profile using the program Vocaroo. You can
find Vocaroo program in this link: http://vocaroo.com

Share the link of your recording in the forum.

Environmen Collaborative Learning. Forum Task 3: introduce

t for the oneself and partners indicating personal information
developmen
t Monitoring and Evaluation.

Products to Individual:
deliver by
student
Post in the forum in Collaborative Learning
Environment, the following items:

2. A screenshot of the listening activity.

3. Your self-introduction.
4. Pictures of your favorite free-time activity, sport
and food.
5. Link of your self-introduction recording
6. Link of your partner’s introduction recording

Collaborative:

Please read the general guidelines for the

development of the collaborative work.

When you finish the described activities, prepare a final

PDF document with:
a. Presentation page
b. Screenshot of the listening activity
c. Your personal introduction with all the items asked.
d. Your partners’ introduction (as in the example).
e. Screenshots of all your participations in the forum.
f. The links of your recording.

Upload your final work individually in the monitoring

and evaluation environment in the link: Task 3
-second part: introduce oneself and partners indicating
personal information.

Remember: your document has to be completely in

English and you have to upload it individually.

Score: 65 points

Individual:
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for Post your individuals contributions in the forum.
the Don’t wait to the final days.
development Greet your partners and comment their contributions.
of If you post your contributions in the final 3 days, you
collaborative could get less points and not receive feedback.
work
First step: recognition of actors as subjects. The
students at the beginning of the course, in the space
designated for it, will be recognized as participants of
a collaborative group, they will be able to present
their strengths at the service of the group and will
define the communication channels (contact data,
institutional and personal email address, Skype , links
of social networks.) of which they will have to interact
effectively and proactively.
Roles to
Second step: planning of academic activities. In
perform by
accordance with the elements that make up the
the student
principle of responsible action, students can design a
in the
work plan based on the analytical reflection of the
collaborative
agenda of activities, the evaluation plan, the guides
group
and rubrics submitted for the development of each
academic activity .
Third step: staging the principles of collaborative
work. It is important that students internalize the
principles of collaborative work and put them into
practice from the beginning of the academic year and
thereby ensure excellence in their learning processes
and the presentation of scriptural products that
respond to the quality expected in the course.
Roles and
responsibilit You must rely on the document “General curriculum
y for the guidelines at UNAD – aspects of collaborative work
delivery of and teaching accompaniment” published by VIACI,
products by shown in the table 2
students
Use of
Always cite the references
references
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

Plagiarism The academic punishments that the student will face

policy are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric

Individual Collaborati
Activity type: ☒ ☐
Activity ve Activity
Moment of Unit
the Initial ☒ Intermedi ☐ Final ☐
evaluation ate:
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity Score
Aspects
High score Media score Low score
The listening
The listening The student
activity is
activity is did not do the
Listening incomplete or
complete and listening 8
activity some parts are
correct. activity. points
incorrect
(Up to 8 (Up to 4 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
introduced
The student himself/herself
The student
introduced but the
did not
himself/herself introduction is
introduce
Personal including all incomplete or
himself / 8 points
introduction the items it is not in the
herself.
asked. document –
only in the
forum.
(Up to 8 (Up to 4 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
The student introduced a
introduced a partner but the
The student
partner in introduction is
did not
third person incomplete or
Partners’ introduce a 8
including all the student did
introduction partner. points
the items not introduce
asked. the partner in
third person.
(Up to 8 (Up to 4 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
 The
There are
pronunciation
some
is clear and The student
pronunciation
the ideas can did not send
mistakes or
Recording: be easily any audio
there is some 12
pronunciation understood. recording or it
hesitation points
and fluency The speaker is does not open.
while
fluent most of
speaking.
the recording.
(Up to 12 (Up to 6 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The document
is well written,
it has good The document
spelling and has many The student
12
appropriate spelling and did not do the
Linguistic
grammar grammar task.
points
competence
structures or mistakes.
the mistakes
are few.
(Up to 12 (Up to 6 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
uploads the The student
The student
document in uploads the
did not do the 5 points
Document the monitoring document only
task.
uploading and evaluation in the forum.
environment.
(Up to 5 (Up to 2 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Assessed
High score Media score Low score
Aspects
The student
The student socialized the
socialized the document the The student
document on last three days did not
Socialization
time and or the socialize the
of the 7 points
following the document document.
document
instructions. socialized is
incomplete.
(Up to 7 (Up to 3 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
 The student The student
greeted the did not greet
partners the partners The student
correctly correctly did not greet
Greeting
according to according to the partners. 5 points
partners
the the
instructions. instructions.
(Up to 5 (Up to 2 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 65