Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 1 – Interviewing a
course mate.

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Disciplinary formation.
Course Name Intermediate English II
Course Code 551012
Course Type Methodological. Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the Activity

Indi
Number of
Type of Activity: vidu ☒ Collaborative ☐ 2
Weeks
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Initi
Evaluation al
☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
Moment: Unit
1
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
25
Environment
Starting Date of the Deadline of the Activity:
Activity:
01 February 2020. 14 February 2020.
Competences to Develop:
The student is able to put into practice his/her language knowledge
and skills for communicative and social interaction in the English
language. This includes the use of appropriate form, structure and
meaning patterns.
Topics to Develop:
Course Recognition.
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
Initial phase.
Activities to Develop

Task 1: Group Interview.

Choose one of your group partners and ask him/her these questions in
the collaborative forum and share their answers in the discussion topic
started by the course tutor:

1. Did you study English in another college/university before

enrolling at UNAD?

2. How long have you been learning English? Why?

3. What skills or abilities do you want to improve in this language

course?

4. Which production skill (writing – speaking) do you find the most

difficult?

5. Which do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of

learning English online?

6. What would you propose to make the English program better?

Task 2: Making a video.

After getting the answers from your partner’s interview, you are going
to make a short video with this information. The video will be to be
three to five minutes long. The quality of sound and image have to be
the best possible. After recording the video, you are going to upload it
to the online video service YouTube.
The video must include:
- A short introduction of yourself.
- Your partner´s information

Once your video is online, you are going to share the viewing link in
the collaborative forum according to the discussion topic started by
the course tutor.
Please keep in mind the course dates assigned for this activity.

Do not read on the video, try to talk spontaneously, include the

creative elements you consider appropriate. Eg, music and images.

Environments for
the Development Collaborative and Evaluative.
of the Activity
Individual:

Upload individually in the evaluative

environment a PDF document that includes the
following information:

1. Cover page (name and last name,

course info, tutor name, date).
2. Task 1, the interview with the answers
of your partner.
3. Task 2, the YouTube Link of the video.
Products to be
4. References (APA style).
Submitted by
Students
Name your file as follows:

Name of the student group

number_InitialTask.pdf

Total weighing: 25 points.

Collaborative:

N/A

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Planning of Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

Activities for the students to work together in order to achieve a
Development of common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative
Collaborative work proposed for the course is based on a
Work structured and planned process that includes
 individual and group activities, as well as
interaction and socialization in the virtual
classroom.
1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
2. Make several readings of the activity guide
and the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
individual and collaborative work.
3. All the activities that are carried out for the
development of the activity should be reflected
within the course through the different media
and especially in the forum of each activity,
since the interaction; if they work by Skype or
other means they should evidence it in the
forum with screenshots.
4. Be in constant communication with the
colleagues and tutor during the development of
activities.
5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the
colleagues with time, using the various
communication channels arranged in the course.
6. Enter the contributions with time for the
Timely feedback from peers and tutor.
7. Establish a schedule of activities within each
forum and a table of roles and functions for
meet during the development of each activity.
Different roles are proposed within the
collaborative environment, which allow an
appropriate space for academic growth and
effective interaction that promotes learning and
interpersonal relationships. Every student will
Roles to Be take up one of these roles for the development
Performed by the of the course assignments and can only be
Student in the changed if decided by the group members.
Collaborative Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is
Group heard and focuses work around the learning
task. Provides leadership and direction for the
group and suggests solutions to team problems.
Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
are clear and accurate.
 Time keeper: Encourages the group to stay on
task. Announces when time is halfway through
and when time is nearly up.
Planner: States an action for the completion of
the task at hand according to the instructions
and course agenda.
Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests
help from the teacher when group members
agree that they do not have the resources to
solve the problem.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who
participated on time. Informs the student in
charge of alerts about people who did not
participate and will not be included in the final
product.
Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work
follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.
Roles and Duties
Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
for the
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
Submission of
rubric and informs the student in charge of
Products by
alerts about any changes that need to be made
Students
before delivering the product.
Deliveries: Student in charge of informing
about the dates set for presenting each task and
delivering the final product according to the
course agenda. Also informs other students that
the final product has been sent.
Alerts: Informs group participants about any
news in the work being done and reports the
delivery of the final product to the course tutor.
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style
Students must be aware of the risks and
penalties in case of plagiarism.
Plagiarism Policy
Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the
actions that infringe the academic order, among
others, are the following: paragraph e)
 "Plagiarism is to present as your own work all or
part of a written report, task or document of
invention carried out by another person. It also
implies the use of citations or lack of references,
or it includes citations where there is no match
between these and the reference" and
paragraph f) " To reproduce, or copy for profit,
educational resources or results of research
products, which have rights reserved for the
University ". (Acuerdo 029 - 13 De Diciembre de
2013, Artículo 99)

The academic penalties that the student will face

are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in

the academic work or evaluation, the score
obtained will be zero (0.0) without any
disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic
work of any nature, the score obtained will be
zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures
being derived.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see

the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved
from http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/

4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Step 1 – Interviewing a course mate.
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☐
Type: Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
Moment Unit X
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
 The student The student
The student did
correctly partially answered
not answer the
answered all the some of the
questions
questions questions
regarding his/her
Interview regarding his/her regarding his/her 10 points
learning
learning learning
experience.
experience. experience.
(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The video is
The video is
correctly linked.
correctly linked.
Pronunciation and The student did
Pronunciation and
fluency are very not present the
Video fluency are OK.
good. Speech is video 10 points
content Speech is slow
effortless and
and hesitant.
clear.
(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The student
Participation in
participated in the The student did
the forum was
Individual forum, but input not participate in
permanent (3 or
participation given was not the forum for the
more times) and 5 points
in the solid enough nor collaborative
input was well
forum. sent in the set tasks.
argued and solid.
dates.
(up to 5 points) (up to 2 points) (up to 0 points)
Final Score 25 points