Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Materials Design for Virtual Enviroments
Code: 551021

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 3 - Following guidelines for designing
teaching materials
Activity Description
Type of activity: Collaborative
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
Highest score of the activity: 175 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, July 8, The activity ends on: Wednesday, July
2021 28, 2021

With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcome:

- Design interactive activities for virtual context to teach the four (4) skills according to
CEFR.

The activity consists of:

From step 1 to step 5 is an individual activity:

Step 1

Read the Başal, Ahmet (2012) ELT Teachers as Online Material Developers. The
Online Journal of Distance Education and e-Learning Volume 1, Issue 2, and Cuesta,
L. (2010). The Design and Development of Online Course Materials: Some Features
and Recommendations.

Step 2

Considering the readings, design two interactive activities to teach: Writing A1,
Speaking A2, Listening B1, Reading B2, Use of English C1. You must only choose two
skills of the five ones.

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Step 3

You can use the following web 2.0 tools to design your activities:

a) Animoto
b) Prezi
c) Funbrain
d) Educaplay
e) LibriVox
f) Ted-Ed
g) Moovly
h) Or any you find interesting different from the one you use in the previous
activity.

Or you can use Web 3.0 tools to design your activities:

a) Intelligent Tutoring Systems

b) 3D Wikis
c) Semantic Blogs
d) Onlines 3D- Games
e) Microblogging

Step 4

You have to choose first the topic with the level of your students, and the web 2.0 or
web 3.0 tools you are going to use to design your activity and post your selection
into the forum to avoid repetition.

Step 5

Post your activities designed (or their links) into the collaborative forum and give
some meaningful feedback to at least two of your partners’ activities.

Steps 6 and 7 are collaborative activities:

Step 6

Design an online notebook using ONENOTE which you can create an account going to
this link: https://www.onenote.com, or you can use any other tool you know to

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design an online notebook:

The online book needs to contain the following:

a. A tab with the cover page including the names of all the students who
contributed to the development of the online notebook.

b. A tab with the introduction containing a reflection on the importance of using

different kinds of tools to design online materials to apply in virtual environments.

c. A tab per student containing the activities designed according to the level and
the communicative skill chosen.

d. A tab with all the references included in the activities.

Do not forget, you have to leave your notebook public for the others to have access
to the content.

Step 7

The final group’s product will be a PDF document with the names of the students who
participated in the planning and designing of the online notebook, and the link of
your notebook. The group’s submitter has to submit this document to the monitoring
and evaluation environment.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Agenda to organize your time.
- Check all available forums, introduce yourself in the General Forum.
- Verify the dates of the Web Conferences so that you can plan your participation
accordingly.
- Verify your tutors’ synchronous attention by Skype.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Download the Syllabus of the course to actively read.
- Go to the discussion forum for the task and get familiar with your collaborative
group.
- Participate in the forum to get feedback from e-mates and tutor.

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In the Evaluation Environment, you must:
- Post your activities designed (or their links) into the collaborative forum and
give some meaningful feedback to at least two of your partners’ activities.

- The final group’s product will be a PDF document with the names of the
students who participated in the planning and designing of the online notebook,
and the link of your notebook. The group’s submitter has to submit this
document to the monitoring and evaluation environment.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

- Post your activities designed (or their links) into the collaborative forum and
give some meaningful feedback to at least two of your partners’ activities.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

The final group’s product will be a PDF document with the names of the students who
participated in the planning and designing of the online notebook, and the link of
your notebook. The group’s submitter has to submit this document to the monitoring
and evaluation environment.

1. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following:

Post your activities designed (or their links) into the collaborative forum and give
some meaningful feedback to at least two of your partners’ activities.

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

A PDF document with the names of the students who participated in the planning and
designing of the online notebook, and the link of your notebook. The group’s

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submitter has to submit this document to the monitoring and evaluation environment.

And moreover, you must keep in mind:

▪ Be sure to write proper citations and references for other sources you might
use.
▪ Be sure to answer all the questions with your own words.
▪ Be sure to revise content, structure and mechanics in everything you post in
the forums and/or sent for evaluation.
▪ Before submitting the requested product, student should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must comply
with APA style.

In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism. You
can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual campus.

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 students 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.

2. Evaluation Rubric
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Type of activity: Individual
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 3
The highest score in this activity is 175 points

First evaluation High level: The student actively participated in the forum by
criterion: posting opinion and chart on time.

Participate actively If your work is at this level, you can get between 34
on task. points and 35 points

This criterion Average level: The student participated in the forum by

represents 35 posting opinion and chart three days prior to the closing of the
points of the total task.
of 175 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 33
the activity. points and 34 points

Low level: The student participated in the forum by posting

opinion, but not the chart, or vice versa during the last 3 days
of the task. The student did not participate in the forum.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 34 points

Second evaluation High level: The student responded the three topics according
criterion: to guide, and demonstrated reflection and logical
arguments.The two interactive activities are well written and
Interactive activities designed in terms of spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and
form. aesthetics. Besides, you posted the activities into the forum at
least a week before the due date.
This criterion
represents 35 If your work is at this level, you can get between 34
points of the total points and 35 points
of 175 points of
the activity. Average level: The two interactive activities have some
mistakes in spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and coherence.
Besides, you posted the activities and late into the forum.

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 33
points and 34 points

Low level: There are no worksheets to check in the forum.Too

many writing mistakes.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 33 points

Third evaluation High level: The Online Notebook is complete, with all the
criterion: information required, correct spelling and use of English.

Online Notebook If your work is at this level, you can get between 34
Content. points and 35 points

This criterion Average level: The Online Notebook is incomplete; it does

represents 35 not have the information required and has some spelling
points of the total mistakes.
of 175 points of
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 33
points and 34 points

Low level: There is no Online Notebook to check.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 33 points

Fourth evaluation High level: The Online Notebook is well structured, has all the
criterion: tabs required, and is visually attractive.

Online Notebook If your work is at this level, you can get between 34
Presentation. points and 35 points

This criterion Average level: The Online Notebook is not well structured, the
represents 35 tabs are incomplete or are not visually attractive.
points of the total
of 175 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 34
the activity. points and 34 points

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 Low level: There is no Online Notebook to check.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 33 points

Fifth evaluation High level: The document meets the criteria for presentation
criterion: and references according to APA standards.

Present a document If your work is at this level, you can get between 34
according to APA points and 35 points
standards.
Average level: The document partially meets the criteria for
This criterion presentation and references according to APA standards.
represents 35
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 33
of 175 points of points and 34 points
the activity.
Low level: The document does not meet the criteria for
presentation and references according to APA standards.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 33 points