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By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:52:52 +0000

Hi Nancy! I don’t know about alums taking classes, but a lot of the class content is online, so feel free to visit and learn!

The way I create grading rubrics for assignments is to list the learning objectives for the assignment, list the assignment requirements, and from that, come up with a list of things that I feel will measure how well the student met the paper requirements and demonstrated learning. Then, for each element on the list, I write down what I think an A would look like, a B would look like, a C, etc. I try to do this in as concrete terms as possible so that when I look at a paper, it’s easy for me to say “well, for this element it’s an A, for this element, it’s a B”, etc.

I don’t know if this is the standard way to do rubrics, but it works well for me in ensuring that I grade every student in the same way and based on what the assignment was actually about. You could probably do a Google search for grading rubric and find a much better explanation than what I just gave. Good luck!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:29:01 +0000

I’m a SLIS alum (’05 grad). I always learn a lot from your posts, but this one makes me wish I was back in the SLIS program so I could take your class and learn even more! (I don’t suppose you know if alum can take classes, do you??)

I hope you don’t mind me asking a (another!) quick question… there’s a chance that I’ll get to teach an Intro to College course at my community college. While I’ve taught a faculty development class, this will be an entirely new experience for me and I’m my main concern is having to grade students. You mentioned the grading rubric – do you have any resource recommendations for creating one? I think this could be a huge help for me!

By: mitchellirons

mitchellirons — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:32:20 +0000

+1 to the WPMU suggestion, especially since you’re already familiar with WP. You might want to toy around with it in the future to so if it would work for you.

Nearly all WP plugins are compatible with WPMU, by the way. As a security measure, WPMU does limit the use of java script in its posts and widgets by default. However, this can be overridden with a plugin developed by Automattic (the publishers of WP), or by choosing the plugins that you need yourself.

By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:11:25 +0000

Hi Fern. It is a lot like Debbie’s class, so if you already took hers, it might be a bit redundant.

Thanks for the kind words, Karl!

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:55:42 +0000

Ah Meredith! I’m excited about you teaching again too! And I’m going to try and keep tabs on your class as well now that I’ve got it bookmarked in my del.icio.us. Take care, have fun, knock-m-dead! Not dead, no, knock-m-alive, or something

By: fern

fern — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:50:30 +0000

Hi Meredith,

Sounds like it was a great class. Does your class have a lot of overlap with Debbie Faires’ 246 web 2.0? I think I’d enjoy your class a lot.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:06:50 +0000

About “No way to save posts as drafts”… try this module:

http://drupal.org/project/save_as_draft

By: Meredith Farkas

Meredith Farkas — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:42:54 +0000

Thanks Bill and Robert for the lowdown on the present and future of Drupal!

Rich, I have not tried WordPress MU, but have heard good things about it from others. I think it would probably work for a course, but I really like the Drupal set up and how integrated everything is.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:16 +0000

thanks, it’s interesting to read about how people are using drupal for coursework. i’m curious, have you ever tried using wordpress MU and, if so, what was your experience with it like?