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 Basic Sciences, Technology and

Academic Unit engineering
Academic Level Technology
Academic Field Disciplinary formation
Course Name Documentation and Techniques of software test
Course Code 204027
Course Type Theoretical Can be Yes ☒ No ☐
enabled
Number of 2
credits

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 2
activity: weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Environment of
activity: 25
Evaluation and Follow Up.
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity: Sunday,
Thursday, June 21, 2018 Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Competence to develop:

The student develops the ability to manage the technical, operative

conceptualization and contextualization of elements that constitute the
models and standards of documentation in the development of software
projects.

Topics to develop:

Unit 1: Documentation in projects of Software - Unit 2: Tests on

projects of software.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

Learning strategy based on problems (LBP): “Learning based on

problems represents an efficacious and flexible strategy that depending
on what the students do, they can improve the quality of their university
learning in various aspects”. In this way, the LBP helps the student to
develop and work different competencies”. Among these competencies
we have:
• Resolution of problems
• Taking of decisions
• Team work
• Communication skills (argumentation and presentation of
information)
• Development of aptitudes and values: precision, revision,
tolerance.

Activities to develop

Individuals activities:

The individual activity to do is divided in the following activities:

Activity 1: Acknowledgement of the course

Every student must read the course´s syllabus in the environment of

knowledge, enter in the general forum of the course and do a
presentation in front of his/her partners. Students must update
completely the profile of the classroom and revise individually their
personal contact information- including a photograph-. Finally, the
student must do an acknowledgment of the virtual ambiance of the
collaborative learning environment in the classroom.

Activity 2: Crossword

Having previously read the course´s syllabus and the glossary, do a

crossword of the thematic content of the course, use tools such as Visio,
Word, PowerPoint, Ardora, Jclick, online crosswords, etc. It must
contain at least: Name of units, name of course´s chapters, thematics
of each chapter and brief definition based on methodology of concept
maps of each course´s topic. It must be clearly seen the words, their
descriptions or clues.

Activity 3: Glossary

The student finds 3 words that considers important to the topics of the
two units and are not in the glosary. It must add name, technical
definition and bibliographic reference according to APA norms.

Activity 4: Software

The student proposes and sends a software or program in the forum of

collaborative work. It must attach in .rar specifications:

• Developed in any programming language of a recognized or most

used program (Java, C, Visual, etc)
• Connection to data bases preferably mysql, sql, etc.
• Use of various modules or classes

The forum describes:

The objective, functionality of the program, modules contained in it and

a justification on why it will be used along the development of the
course.

Students that belong to a group will select a unique program to manage

which one will be used until the end of the course.

Students will give a name to their software and each one will hand it in
as activity 4.

Environment of collaborative work: Interaction and

Environme
socialization –
nts for the
Environment evaluation and monitoring: Delivery of final
developme
product
nt

Products
Individuals
to deliver
by student
Work delivery:
Each participant once his/her contributions are done and
the final intellectual work is consolidated, the proposed
document must be submitted in the environment of
Evaluation and Follow Up in the section denominated Unit
1 and 2. Phase 1. Explore. Develop activity of work
acknowledgement.

These activities will be presented in the environment of

forum named Phase 1 and the final product will be
published individually in the environment of Evaluation
and Follow Up phase 1. As well, the work format with APA
norms and the solution of the five individual activities
must contained: Cover, development of the three
individual activities and bibliography.

The expected product is a PDF file labeled with full name

Phase 1: exploratory with APA norms and the four
individual activities.
3. General Guidelines for the collaborative work

In collaborative groups, each student will assume a

role, he/she will present a thematic and will discuss
with his/her partners the comprehension and
identification of the problem as a response in the
moment of planning.

Based on this, students will design a strategy and

arrange elements needed for the construction of the
Planning of
final product.
activities for
the
Equally, they will arrange a synchronic encounter
development
through a web conference to run each activity.
of
collaborative
• The product of this moment will be selected and
work
accepted by the group leader, also the roles that
might be needed. Moreover, sharing the strategy to
be used about the development of suggested work,
this is to create participation, assertive and efficient
discussion by everyone of the participants in the
corresponding collaborative forum to allow the
construction of each one of the proposed products.

While elaborating the strategy and individual and group

activities of the learning process, the student will
assume a role in the collaborative group formed by five
members. Among the roles to be selected by the
collaborative group, the following are recommended:
Roles to
perform by Moderator or leader: Who organizes and observes
the student that proposed assignments are kept. He or she is
in the responsible for handing in the product of the team.
collaborative Collaborator: who is in charge of organizing the
group contributions in the document to be handed. He or she
revises redaction and orthography.
Evaluator: This is the critic who checks that the
contributions being done correspond to the requested
in the integrating guide of activities and agree with the
stipulations stated in analytic signature of evaluation.
 Idea man: checks time, contributes with ideas and
asks questions to motivate others to do it as well.
Investigator: leads consultation of bibliographic
material and proposals of investigation.

Dear students, through this information I present to

you the roles that each one of you must assume with
respect to each activity to develop in units 1 and 2
present in forums of collaborative work respectively.
Allow me to remind you that it is needed each student
takes on a role in a way that the collaborative work
does not bring inconvenient to the group.

Compiler: Consolidates the document that becomes

the final product of the debate, keeps in mind that all
participants ‘contributions are included and only those
Roles and who participated in the process are part of it. He or she
responsibilit must inform to the person in charge about alerts in
y for the order to advise those who didn’t participate that they
delivery of won’t be included in the product to be handed.
products by Reviewer: Assures that the written assignment
students follows all the norms of Works presentation stablished
by the teacher.
Evaluator: guarantees that the document contains the
criteria present in the signature. He or she must
communicate alerts to the person in charge to inform
the rest of the team members in case there is a need
for an adjustment about a specific topic.
Deliveries: Alerts about delivery times of the products
and sends the document during stablished times, using
destined resources for the delivery and informing
others about the delivery being complete.

The APA norms for written works and documents of

investigation: these norms are a combination of
Use of standards created by the American Psychological
references Association to unified the way of presenting written
Works in an international level. They are specially
designed for graduation projects or any other type of
 investigation documents. See APA norms in
environment of management.

http://normasapa.com/

What is plagiarism for the UNAD? Plagiarism is defined

by the dictionary of the Royal Academy as the action
of "copying in the substantial works of others, giving
them as their own." Therefore, plagiarism is a serious
fault: it is the equivalent in the academic field, to theft.
A student who plagiarizes does not take his education
seriously, and does not respect the intellectual work of
others.

There is no small plagiarism. If a student uses any

portion of another person's work, and does not
document their source, they are committing an act of
plagiarism. Now, it is evident that we all have the ideas
of others when presenting ours, and that our
knowledge is based on the knowledge of others. But
when we rely on the work of others, academic honesty
Plagiarism
requires that we explicitly announce the fact that we
policy
are using an external source, either by means of an
appointment or by means of an annotated paraphrase
(these terms will be defined later). When we make an
appointment or a paraphrase, we clearly identify our
source, not only to give recognition to its author, but
so that the reader can refer to the original if he so
wishes.

There are academic circumstances in which,

exceptionally, it is not acceptable to quote or
paraphrase the work of others. For example, if a
teacher assigns his students a task in which it is clearly
requested that students respond using their ideas and
words exclusively, in that case the student should not
appeal to external sources even if they were properly
referenced.
 4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☒ ☐
Activity Activity
Moment of the Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation Intermediate
Assessed Performance level of individual activity
score
Aspects High score Medium score Low score
acknowledgement of Even though the The document does
the course was acknowledgment of not resolve the
Activity 1:
accomplished the course is done, acknowledgement
Acknowled
satisfactorily; it does not solve of the course.
gement of 4
questions are adequately the
course
resolved correctly. proposed situation.

(Up to 4 points) (Up to 2 points) (Up to 0 points)

Crossword was Even though the Crossword is not
done satisfactorily; crossword is done, it complete or done.
Activity : questions are does not solve
Crossword resolved correctly.
adequately the 7
proposed situation.

(Up to 7 Points) (Up to 3 Points) (Up to 0 Points)

Number of words Even though the Words are not
of the glossary number of words are presented.
were achieved and delivered, they do
Activity 3:
they followed the not follow APA
Glossary 7
APA norms norms.
correctly.
(Up to 7 Points) (Up to 3 Points) (Up to 0 Points)
Delivery of Even though the The software is not
software was software is delivered, presented.
Activity 4: accomplished and it does not have the
Software it had all requested 7
requested
requirements. requirements.

(Up to 7 Points) (Up to 3 Points) (Up to 0 Points)

Final score 25