Goal Aware Data Point Tool
The Data Point tool is a very "low risk" way to introduce faculty to student performce data around the "Goal" concept. Many of our own faculty will be reluctant to involve their students in courseware, Sakai or anything that they have not had some experience with. The Data Point tool does not require ANY student interaction.
The Data Point tool allows a user with appropriate permissions to establish one or more Data Points in a worksite. The site maintainer will be able to link that Data Point to one or more Goals from associated worksites. Up to this point the workflow is very much analogous to the Goal Aware Assignment tool.
However, in the Data Point tool students will no be handing in anything. This may be useful for a wide range of applications such as:
- observations of students in the field (for us, that may be field placements during student teaching)
- paper based assignments
- ratings of discussion participation
- work turned in other systems
- summative assessments
By specifying a role or set of roles that need to be rated, the tool automatically creates the appropriate placeholders for those users. The instructor can then rate each student's performance in the same manner as in the Goal Aware Assignment tool.
The Data Point tool is bundled with the 0.6 release of the Sakai Goal Management contrib module. Additional documentation of Goal Aware tools are available on the Sakai wiki.