Introduction: You have now been assigned to a group on Canvas (found under Assignment #1).
This is your group for the quarter for the group assignments. In order to earn these points, you
must contribute to the team (no solo assignments). No changing groups, please. The goals are
1) to form a community within this class where you interact on a regular basis to provide
support and encouragement to your teammates,
2) form study groups to prepare for exams,
3)make learning fun! Please read the attachment. It is on Canvas as well under “Course Information/Resources”. It explains the overall group assignment details.
Team Captains’ Duties:
Team Captains will be awarded 4 bonus points at the end of the quarter for their additional
duties, which include:
1) arranging a time when you can all “meet” (can be through Google
Docs, where you just introduce yourself, e-mail or “Collaborations” on Canvas);
2) setting specific deadlines for your team, in order to turn assignments in on time;
3) checking in weekly with each teammate to make sure they’re feeling connected and participating;
4) contacting
your mentor if one of the teammates isn’t participating, responding; 5) keeping track of each
teammate’s contribution to each assignment (each teammate will e-mail or include in Google
Doc documentation of their participation, such as a link to research for example); 6) e-mailing
this information to your mentor and identifying any teammate that did not participate; 7)
submitting your assignment to the mentor for feedback prior to submitting the assignment on
Canvas; 8) submitting the assignment on Canvas
Mentors:
Each team will be assigned a mentor. This is a student who took this course and excelled. The
mentor’s jobs will be: 1) to regularly check in with the team captains and teammates of their
assigned groups; 2) provide feedback on assignments; 3) be your point of contact if you have
any concerns regarding any teammate (this includes the team captain); 4) respond to your e-mails that you send them directly regarding questions over course material;
5) facilitate study groups as needed General Assignment Guidelines:
1) For each of the 4 assignments, there will be specific prompts and instructions you need to follow
2) Each teammate must contribute in order to receive a grade (out of 10 points; each teammate receives an individual grade out of 10)
a. Each teammate must document their contribution and provide their contribution
and documentation to the team captain by the deadline the team captain sets
b. As a team you decide on the contribution of each member (it could be research,
writing, editing for example)
3) As a team you decide how you want to do the assignment (how it is presented on the
discussion forum)
a. Here are some suggestions (but please be creative and come up with your own ideas
too):
i. Power Point presentation
ii. A video presentation
etc.)
b. Make sure that links to your work are easily assessible (don’t require a separate log
in)
c. Make sure you include citations when appropriate (research you include or based
on)
d. Make sure you include a description of your work if it is artwork, song, dance, other
visual
4) Each assignment will be graded on the following:
a. The submitted assignment addressed everything in the prompt
b. The team went beyond what is presented in class (notes, power points, videos, text)
c. If you plagiarize, the assignment will receive a 0 (please refer to syllabus for more
details)
d. The creativity put into the assignment (did you just cover the basics without adding
anything additional or did you make it interesting, engaging, fun?)
e. It was submitted appropriately (into the discussion forum)
f. Mentors and I will vote on the best assignment and that group will receive “tokens”
i. The group with the most tokens at the end of the quarter will be awarded 6
bonus points!
