JotForm, a Web 2.0 Assessment Tool
for Online Learning
Web
2.0 assessment tools, like the ones found among Moodle LMS tools, can be used
to track and evaluate student progress in online or blended learning courses.
When learners use these tools to share, analyze, develop, and locate content, it not only increases student-student
interaction, but also student-instructor interaction. This way of
increasing interaction provides teachers the opportunity to assess students
throughout the entire learning process rather than just at the end of it.
Additionally, the interactive nature of these Web 2.0 assessment tools also
increases student engagement and potencializes the learning experience and the
achievement of learning goals.
Potencializing
student learning and having them achieve learning goals can also be done with an
additional Web 2.0 tool that instructors and learners can use, JofForm.Com, a
Website where users can create all kinds of forms to gather all sorts of
information from a great array of templates available just by signing for an
account for free. JofForm.Com can
be a great alley of teachers; instructors can easily create class surveys,
online quizzes, and the like, which can be quickly gathered in his/her site
profile. But this website can also be a good students’ alley when having to get
information for term or research papers as well. One of its best features is
that it can be easily embedded onto your Moodle platform so students can get to
work directly on it or the form can also be sent to their personal email
account.
If
asked, how JofForm.Com
could be used in class, within the Moodle Platform, or in an online course with
Blackboard or a similar LMS, to help teacher and leaners, this can be easily
answered by taking a look at the gallery of forms of all types we can find, and
how they could be used.
Depending
on the study field where instructors work, lots of different kinds of
activities can be carried out. What counts here is the creativity of the
instructor to use the free tool. Take a look at the following information which
is mostly related to ELT (English Language Teaching) rather than other fields,
but that can be easily adapted to other teachers’ needs:
JotForm
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Use
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JotForm
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Use
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Ask a question
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To administrate short
quizzes
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Course Evaluation Form
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To ask for partial or
final feedback during a course
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CV Submission
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To create professional
résumés
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Student Progress Report
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To provide timely
feedback and grades to students
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Hotel Booking
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To practice bookings in
tourism industry classes
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Restaurant Evaluation Survey
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To provide feedback on
restaurant services & food
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Employee Information
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To gather data for human
resources courses
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IT Service Tickets
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To help IT students to
deal with clients’ needs
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Instructor Evaluation
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To get feedback from
students
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Medical History
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To help medical school Ss
get info about patients
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Event Feedback
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To gather feedback after
a webinar or class event
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Trivia Quiz
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To create some sort of
Scavenger’s Hunt
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Purchase Order
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To practice placing and
responding to orders
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CREATE YOUR OWN FORM
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Open to teachers or
students’ needs
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In
my particular ELT teaching situation, JofForm.Com can be easily used to have
students gather information or practice specific language needed for their
professional field of study. Let’s take a look at two possible teaching
scenarios in English language learning with different groups of learners.
Tourism Industry Class
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Objective: After being provided different
examples of hotel reservations, students will be able to follow the correct
steps to book a room with 100% of accuracy by means of an online system.
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Class will be divided into two
different groups –the ones who book hotel rooms online and the ones who
respond to their partners with the booking confirmation.
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A JofForm
from the site gallery or one created by students will be used to
practice both roles of the booking process.
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The teacher will scaffold the process
to assist and have both groups change roles and practice reserving a room and
responding to their clients.
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Activity created by
Prof. Jonathan AcuñA
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Systems Engineering
Class
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Objective: After being provided different
examples of IT tickets in different companies, students will be able to deal
with IT ticket with 100% of accuracy by means of an electronic form.
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Class will be divided into two
different groups –the company workers who send an IT ticket and the ones who respond
and give a follow-up to the ticket.
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A JofForm
from the site gallery or one created by students will be used to
practice both roles of the IT ticket process.
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The teacher will scaffold the process
to assist and have both groups change roles and practice sending an IT ticket
and responding to their clients.
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Activity created by
Prof. Jonathan AcuñA
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By
means of both activities, which can be centralized jointly on JofForm.Com and on the LMS, student learning can be
observed, monitored, and assessed. Following the methodological principle of
scaffolding in TBLT (Task-Based Language Teaching), student performance can be
enhanced and supervised by the instructor or even by peers. It just takes a bit
of thinking and a bit of creativity to find new ways to exploit the use of this
Web 2.0 assessment tool.
? To
fully comprehend the scope of this teaching issue, it is highly advisable that
the following topics must be expanded further:
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Student-Student interaction in online
learning
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Teacher-Student interaction in VLEs
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How to embed forms within your LMS classroom
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Having students work on forms to gather
information
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Assessing students in online learning
environments
Professor
Jonathan Acuña-Solano
ELT
Trainer, Instructor & Curriculum Developer based in Costa Rica
NCTE – Costa Rica
Member
Contact
Information:
Twitter
@jonacuso
Email
jonacuso@gmail.com
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Article published on
Friday, December 20, 2013
