In all our years except Y11 we get kids to do work, hand it in (usually in PDF format into shared folder) and then chase up those who haven’t done the work. The best method as I mentioned yesterday, is to mark and give a formative comment. This also serves to flag up under-performance early on.
For Y11 because they save their work into an eportfolio, the job is made much more difficult because we have to check they have done the work AND put it into their eportfolio. This is the bane of my life, clicking around the network checking that kids have done what they say they have done.
Would we be allowed to use the same method as other years? Would this scaffold them too much and remove the need for independent learning and independent structuring? I would argue no (but I haven’t checked with anyone else yet). From a data point of view its simple you splitting the work by publication rather than by student (although they will have to make their eportfolio later) It would certainly make the job of tracking a group much easier eg. imposing deadlines and getting kids along to catch up.
In addition, it would also mean that when the work is done, I already have a copy of it. So this would avoid the problem of the student saying that their work has “disappeared” from the network.
