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 Yes ☐ No ☒
be
retaken
Number of credits 2

2. Descriptions of the activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 2
activity: 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).
Environments
to its Collaborative Learning – Monitoring and Evaluation
development
Individual:
Part 1: Send your profile’s screenshot; you need to
upload your photo and send the screenshot of the
Preknowledge.

Products to
submit by the
student

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 in
collaborative
this activity.
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

Roles and meet all the requirements established by the teacher.
responsibiliti
es to Evaluator: To verify that the final paper meets the
produce the criteria established by the rubric. The evaluator must
submitions inform the group about any corrections or adjustments
by the regarding the quality of the document.
students
Submissions: To keep track and inform the group
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.
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
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

Plagiarism are:
policy 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.php
?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
 4. Evalution Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Individual
Type of activity: ☒ Collaborative ☐
activity
Intermedia,
Moment of evaluation Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
unit
Performance levels of the individual activity
Item Score
High score Media score Low score
You participated
You participated You did not
partially in the forum
Participation in actively in the forum participate
sending some
the forum sending appropriate in the 5 points
contributions regarding
contributions. forum.
the required work.
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 3 points) (0 points)
You did not
send the
You sent your
screenshot
screenshot showing You updated your
showing
your profile updated profile partially on
Updating of your profile
on virtual campus. campus according to
profile and updated on
You presented the the sreenshot. You did 5 points
Preknowledge campus. You
Preknowledge Quiz not present the
Quiz did not
and sent the Preknowledge Quiz.
present the
screenshot.
Preknowledg
e Quiz.
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 3 points) (0 points)
You sent the audio
You did not
You sent the audio introducing yourself
send the
introducing yourself. but it is not complete
Personal audio
Your pronunciation or you had some 5 points
presentation introducing
and fluency are well. pronunciation
yourself.
mistakes.
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 3 points) (0 points)
You answered all You developed You did not
the questions partially the questions answer the
Answering the
established in the established in the questions 5 points
questions
activity guide activity guide; however given in the
appropriately. there are some activity
 problems related to the guide.
use of language.
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 3 points) (0 points)
You submitted the
You sent the final You did not
whole final paper in
paper in PDF but you sent the
Presentation of PDF in the correct
did not send it in the final paper 5 points
the final paper environment with a
correct environment. in PDF.
good presentation.
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 3 points) (0 ps)
25
Final score
points