I think you'll agree that we've come a long way in the first half of this book. We've got all of our documents, handouts, videos, and sound files uploaded. In the previous chapter, we investigated lots of ways in which we can make our courses more engaging and entertaining for students. In this chapter, we take a turn from work I hand out to students to look at how to manage online work that they hand to me.
Currently, in my Backyard Ballistics course, I set two major end-of-course projects:
A poster on energy sources
A PowerPoint presentation to the group on how energy is transferred when objects are sent flying through the air
Both tasks are graded separately.
For me, the final project has always been a major headache: PowerPoint presentations go missing. Students claim they have emailed me files that never reach me. The school technician is wary of students bringing in work on memory sticks because of the threat of viruses. Marking the posters involves me having...