Sometimes the old technology works - it is a lot of paper, but I sent students a form via e-mail, they complete one page for each team member and bring the printed copies to class. Then I just re-sort them and give them out that day. I only do this for the mid-term evaluation. Karen Milligan Teacher Education Carson-Newman College On 3/14/11 3:00 AM, "TEAMLEARNING-L automatic digest system" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >There are 2 messages totalling 59 lines in this issue. > >Topics of the day: > > 1. getting comments back to students (2) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:34:35 -0700 >From: Jennifer Imazeki <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: getting comments back to students > >Hi all, > >I just had my students do their mid-semester team evaluations and am >wondering if anyone has found an easy way to get comments back to >students? I have two sections of 75 (13 teams of 5 or 6 students each) >and the students submitted their evaluations in Blackboard so I have >everything in a spreadsheet. But I just spent over three hours cutting >and pasting the comments into the gradebook because Blackboard doesn't >have a way to upload text comments (and then the comment field that is >there only allows 1000 characters so I had to do a bunch of editing as >well). I'm thinking there has to be an easier way but can't figure out >what that might be - I thought about just sending individual emails >but that would still be a ton of cutting and pasting (though I suppose >a lot less editing). Any suggestions from those with bigger classes? > >thanks! >Jennifer > >------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:11:44 +1030 >From: Robyn Davidson <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: getting comments back to students > >iPeer is software specifially developed by Jim Sibley to do group >assessment with TBL. It is an excellent, easy to use piece of software >and makes giving quality feedback to students easy and informative, in >addition assessments can be downloaded into Excel for instructor use. > >On 14/03/2011 2:04 PM, Jennifer Imazeki wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just had my students do their mid-semester team evaluations and am >> wondering if anyone has found an easy way to get comments back to >> students? I have two sections of 75 (13 teams of 5 or 6 students each) >> and the students submitted their evaluations in Blackboard so I have >> everything in a spreadsheet. But I just spent over three hours cutting >> and pasting the comments into the gradebook because Blackboard doesn't >> have a way to upload text comments (and then the comment field that is >> there only allows 1000 characters so I had to do a bunch of editing as >> well). I'm thinking there has to be an easier way but can't figure out >> what that might be - I thought about just sending individual emails >> but that would still be a ton of cutting and pasting (though I suppose >> a lot less editing). Any suggestions from those with bigger classes? >> >> thanks! >> Jennifer > >------------------------------ > >End of TEAMLEARNING-L Digest - 10 Mar 2011 to 13 Mar 2011 (#2011-37) >********************************************************************