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