Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 1: Recognition Forum – Guide and Rubric

1. General description of the course

School or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Level of Technical-Technological-Professional-Master
formation
Field of Formation Common Basic Interdisciplinary formation
Course name English III
Course code 90121
Type of course Methodological Can it Ye ☐ N ☒
be s o
retake
n
Number of credits 2

2. Descriptions of the activity

Type of Individua Collaborativ Number of 2

☒ ☐
activity: l e weeks
Moment of Intermedia,
Starting ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: unit:
Delivery Environment: Monitoring
Evaluation score: 25 points
and Evaluation
Starting date: October 10th,
Closing date: October 16th, 2018
2018
Competence to develop:
Reading skill: The students read and understand in detail short texts
about their discipline and actual topics.
Topics to develop:
Basic information, Verb To Be, Present simple, Daily routines, Likes
and dislikes, Hobbies.
Phases, steps or stages of learning strategy to develop
Activity 1 y 2 : Recognition Forum & Preknowledge Quiz
Activities to develop
Part 1: Update your “Profile” and send the screenshot. Present the
Act. 2 : Preknowledge Quiz and send the screenshot.
Part 2: Record an audio with your personal presentation including
name, age, program you study, city where you live, favorite movie –
pie – drink – song – sportsperson-, and activities you usually do on
Sundays. Besides, you must talk briefly about why the English is the
most important language all around the world.

Part 3: Answer the following questions:

a. How many activities are there in the Intermediate Evaluation
of our virtual room? Mention their names.
b. Why is it so important to check the “Course Forum”?
c. Where can you find the number of your group and the name
of your tutor?
d. How many topics are there in the Unit 1? Mention the topics
that belong to this unit.
e. Explain with your own words the aim of the link Listening
and Pronunciation Tools (Practice learning environment).
Environment
s to its Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and Evaluation
development
Products to Individual:
submit by Part 1: Send your profile’s screenshot; you need to
the student upload your photo and send the screenshot of the
Preknowledge.

Part 2: Send the audio introducing yourself. You can

use any tool or software to record but it must be a
MP3/4 file (SVRecorder is an option).
 Part 3: Send the answers in the Recognition Forum
(Collaborative Learning Environment).

Send the final product including points 1, 3, 4 and 5

in a PDF file whose name is Recognition_Student’s
Name_Group. It must be sent at Monitoring and
Evaluation Environment.

Collaborative:
Part 4: Make two (2) comments about your partners’
answers making corrections if necessary.

Part 5: Each student provides two (2) ideas

answering the following question and supporting his
opinion:
 Why is it so important to learn English in order
to have better job oportunities?

Sum up all the ideas provided by the students.

General guidelines of the collaborative work for developing
the activity

 Reading carefully the activity guide.

 Sending meaningful and appropriate contributions

Planning
on time.
activities to
develop the
 Developing homeworks and assignments required
collaborativ
in this activity.
e work
 Checking continuously times according to the
Course agenda and activity guides.
Roles to
perform by
No role must be performed by the students in this
the student
activity.
in the
collaboative
group
Collector: Articulate the contributions of all the
participants of the collaborative group in order to
consolidate the final paper; including only those who
took part of the whole process.

Reviewer: To verify that the final paper and process

meet all the requirements established by the teacher.

Roles and Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
responsibilit criteria established by the rubric. The evaluator must
ies to inform the group about any corrections or
produce the adjustments regarding the quality of the document.
submitions
by the Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
students about the submission time, upload the final paper on
time, using the link provided by the teacher or
established by the activity guide. To notify the group
members the final paper was submitted.

Alerts: To notify all the group members about

changes or news related to the submission or
elaboration of the final paper. To notify the teacher
through the collaborative forum and the course mail
that the final paper was submitted.
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
policy 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”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

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. Evalution Rubric
 Evaluation Rubric
Individual Collaborati
Type of activity: ☒ ☐
activity ve
Intermedia
Moment of evaluation Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
, unit
Performance levels of the individual
activity
Item Score
Low
High score Media score
score
You participated
You participated You did
partially in the
actively in the not
forum sending
Participation forum sending participat
some contributions 5
in the forum appropriate e in the
regarding the points
contributions. forum.
required work.
(Up to 5 (0
(Up to 3 points)
points) points)
You did
not send
the
You sent your screensho
screenshot You updated your t showing
showing your profile partially on your
profile updated campus according profile
Updating of on virtual to the sreenshot. updated
profile and campus. You You did not on 5
Preknowledg presented the present the campus. points
e Quiz Preknowledge Preknowledge You did
Quiz and sent Quiz. not
the screenshot. present
the
Preknowle
dge Quiz.
(Up to 5 (0
(Up to 3 points)
points) points)
You sent the You sent the
You did
audio audio introducing
not send
introducing yourself but it is
the audio
yourself. Your not complete or
Personal introducin 5
pronunciation you had some
presentation g points
and fluency are pronunciation
yourself.
well. mistakes.
(Up to 5 (0
(Up to 3 points)
points) points)
You developed You did
partially the not
You answered
questions answer
all the questions
established in the the
established in
Answering activity guide; questions
the activity 5
the however there are given in
guide points
questions some problems the
appropriately.
related to the use activity
of language. guide.