HI

Most learning management systems - Moodle, BB Learn will let you do a lot of the grades piece

We use our LMS (Blackboard Vista) to do survey of students to aid team formation...we download the results and do sorts in excel to build teams.

there are a few team building apps out there

Rose-Hulman's team maker which basically automates the survey in my LMS/excel sort procedure

There is also Group Rumbler....but we looked at it and it's built for a distinctly different use than TBL...it is all about build groups not teams. They envision that group membership changes often and you don't want to be working with the same people on each project....it would likely be useful in MBA programs where they like to keep scrambling the groups each project...they also use something similar in the PBL portion of our medical program....students are in GROUPS for each 5-6 week block...and they are careful that you see new people each block (fairly easy in our medical program with an intake of 150)

I just took some BB Learn training...and it has some features that will be great for TBL....you can set gradebook columns to throw out the two lowest grades...so you could say your 4 highest scores across the 6 test will count....you just keep entering grades and BB Learn does the math. The group manager with its group assignment submission could well automate the collection of appeals and worksheets, also in Collaborate (their web conferencing classroom) you can share different whiteboards to different people....so you might be able to distribute problems to each team...collect back automatically...then display them....kind of a variant on stacking overheads

Jim


On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Brent Duncan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello TBL folks.

Any recommendations about grading software for the TBL classroom? Ideally, I am
looking for a relational database that allows me to assign individuals to teams,
and generate reports that help me to analyze individual contributions to teams
and team contributions to individuals.

Thank you for your ideas.

Brent



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