Teachers and Developers: Searching for a common language Susana Martínez Naharro Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)

Overview Sakai in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia: Data of our first academic year. Help desk: Key Areas Searching a shared language –Pedagogical language: Teacher functions –Technical language: Developments in tools

Sakai data in the UPV: Pilot running during 2006 Full production System in 2006/2007 –5 servers –More than sites –More than students Based on the version –Customized to university requirements

HELP DESK: Key Areas TRAINING USER SUPPORT NEW DEVELOPMENTS DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION

Dissemination & Information Communication campaigns - Sakai’s home page & Home page of each site - News about: new developments, changes, training courses, actions related with new technologies… NEWS

HELP DESK: Key Areas TRAINING USER SUPPORT NEW DEVELOPMENTS DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION

TRAINING COURSES: –Teachers –University staff –Specific degrees –Freshmen teachers –Teacher assistants –Students E-LEARNING COURSES: –HELP ZONE FOR TEACHERS –HELP ZONE FOR STUDENTS

HELP DESK: Key Areas TRAINING USER SUPPORT NEW DEVELOPMENTS DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION

User support framework at UPV

HELP DESK: Key Areas TRAINING USER SUPPORT NEW DEVELOPMENTS DISSEMINATION & INFORMATION

Feedback received Suggestions Complaints Queries about pedagogical use of some tools Needs to use PoliformaT in some specifics subjects, and peculiar cases Doubts about the implementation process

Evaluation Meetings Meeting attendees: Developers and Pedagogues and Project leaders. Frequency: monthly Goal: To evaluate the teacher’s proposals for improvements and make decisions Results: New developments, Refused proposals, study of other alternatives

Suggestions made: Code CategoryCode Incidence descriptionComments Register dateDevelopment Planning RecurrenceState

Suggestions made: Fields LANGUAGESUBJECTSGROUPSSYLLABUS ANNOUNCEMENTSCONNECTIONASSIGNMENTSRESOURCES STATISTICSTRAININGMESSAGE CENTER MODULESICONSSUPPORTCHAT ROOM GRADEBOOKPUBLIC PARTPLATFORMGRADEBOOK ROLESDROP BOXTESTS & QUIZZES MODULES

FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS TEACHER ORGANIZATION & PLANNING ACADEMIC / WORK SOCIALTECHNICALEVALUATION

TEACHER FUNCTIONS: ORGANIZATION & PLANNING SUBJECTS: -Catalan version of Sakai -Identify the users by Name and surname -Have statistic data about access, actions… -Possibility to test their actions in platform by student role. SYLLABUS: -Add new icon events to syllabus -Connect with Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)

FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS TEACHER ORGANIZATION & PLANNING ACADEMIC / WORK SOCIALTECHNICALEVALUATION

TEACHER FUNCTIONS: ACADEMIC / WORK Assignment: -Possibility to make a personal sort list -Publish an assignment for an specific group: Team Work -Limit the access to IP address Content: Modules: - Put an itinerary to be followed by students - Several authors in copyright - Printable version of contents - Extra support questions Resources: - Introduce a search engine to bibliography and connect to UPV library - Personal sort list to resources and files

FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS TEACHER ORGANIZATION & PLANNING ACADEMIC / WORK SOCIALTECHNICALEVALUATION

TEACHER FUNCTIONS: SOCIAL Private Message Center Area: -Know who is sending the message in -Mark answered messages -Add several attached file Chat Room: -Show several chat rooms -Unplug the chat room temporarily -Access to different chat rooms at the same time Discussion Forums: -Make more simple the Template Settings Groups: -Use tools by groups -Groups with a specific date and hour -Add more group categories

FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS TEACHER ORGANIZATION & PLANNING ACADEMIC / WORK SOCIALTECHNICALEVALUATION

TEACHER FUNCTIONS: TECHNICAL - Offer technical support to students: An on line support “Zona de ayuda” (Assistance Zone for students)

FROM TEACHERS TO DEVELOPERS TEACHER ORGANIZATION & PLANNING ACADEMIC / WORK SOCIALTECHNICALEVALUATION

TEACHER FUNCTIONS: EVALUATION Test & Quizzes: - Share Question Pools by teachers - Add equations and formulas to editors - Insert images from local pc - Penalize the mistakes in assessments - New opportunity to do an assessment - Change the settings of a published assessment - Possibility to import Question Pools - Increase speed of Tests & Quizzes Grade book: -Import data from Excel -Adjust grade in negative -Weight grades

THE FUTURE: TRAINING -Courses about Sakai -Specific courses: Evaluation, Contents authoriting -Courses about new developments -Courses about quality in teaching across a LMS. NEW DEVELOPMENTS - LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORY - VirtualLAB TOOL: test different graphic results - POLIMEDIA: to edit multimedia contents

THANK YOU Susana Martínez