Hand In
In our working example we want the students to work with Unit 4 - Autography. In the resource folder we have several supporting documents as resources. One of these documents is Ideas for my autobiography:
Let us say we want our students to fill in their ideas in this image and then hand it in. Then the teacher can give the students feedback using Fronter handy tool, Hand-in.
This is the process:
- Creating the actual Hand in folder with time-limit (teacher)
- Uploading the assignment text (teacher)
- Reading the assignment text (students)
- Hand in/ uploading the work (students)
- Comments, verification and marking (teacher)
- Going through the comments (students)
- View/ control of the portfolio (students/teacher)
Enter title, date control and contents.
To create a hand in- folder you need to enter the name of the folder, select "Opening hours" (date intervals) and decide on its contents. First we have created a subfolder, Unit 4 - Hand-ins. Then a click on Folder gives us the option to create a new folder:
Here we enter a descriptive title as well as the opening hours. Notification means that if a student has this option on his/her start page in Fronter "Today", the count-down to the point in time when it is no longer possible to make any alterations, will be displayed:
It is also possible to limit what a student is able to put into this folder by selecting Customise content:
When you are finished, the reminder on the Today page will appear like this:
Uploading the assignment text (task)
The text of the task (one or more files) can be put in the hand-in folder by the teacher:
You just have to browse through to where it is saved:
Handing in work
When the time is right, and the folder is active, the students will have access to reading the task text by clicking on it, as well as handing in their work:
Individual submission:
The students must find the file which is to be handed in:
As you can see the default is Individually. If several files are to be handed in, the process has to be repeated for each file.
This is how a student will see a successful hand-in:
Group hand-ins
In many cases the students work together on one or more assignments. There is nothing to stop them from handing in their work collectively in Fronter: one of them will do the actual hand-in, at the same time as placing a tick for each of the group members. This will appear in the teacher's display (group hand-in), and it is sufficient to comment on the collective work. Each student will then see "his/her" work with the teacher's comments.
The process is exactly the same as described in the previous example - only the option Customise owners has been added.
Here the person who does the actual handing in, places a tick for the other members of the group.
After submitting (Save,) Fay gets this information - note that it has been ticked for Details in order to see the names of the others in the group:
The teacher will get the details of the submission for the group like this:
When commenting on the work, you use exactly the same process as for individual hand-in; the only difference being that comments, marks etc automatically will come to all the group members. The portfolio is also fully updated with these details so that the same information will be displayed to each of the group members.
Hand in on behalf of
This option deals with situations where the teacher can hand in on behalf of a student. This function is quite useful in many ways, e.g. if the student has not managed the submission process, sent work via e-mail, made an oral presentation or completed a practical task. The teacher will thus have an overview of the tasks that have been completed as well as having the opportunity to mark these.
First you have to place a tick for the student in question (or several if this is a group submission) and then click on Hand in on behalf of, which can be found at the very bottom:
As a teacher you now have two options on how to hand in on behalf of the students:
1) Upload one or multiple files to Hand in:
This is the normal process:
Here you choose whether to upload one or more files. As you will see, the names are already filled in and this will be a Group hand-in.
2) Enter a title and/or a description, which will lead to a Fronter document automatically being created
Sometimes it is not practical to hand in a file in Fronter: It could be a practical assignment, a dance, a multi-media presentation etc. The submission is therefore a virtual document that is automatically created if you enter a title and description:
And this is how it will be displayed:
By clicking on this file you will see that it is a FronterDocument:
Comments, verification and marking takes place as for other submissions.
As long as a hand-in-folder is active (open) a student will be able to delete his/her own work, and hand in work. When the hand-in folder has become inactive, the buttons will disappear from beneath the files (Delete and Move), and only Read comments will be available.
Not Handed in
It is very apparent in a hand in folder who has not handed in their work, but there is a situation where this has to be followed up in a bit more detail: If a handing in is attached to Learning goal and is part of the portfolio method, you as a teacher will not have a display of missing submissions in the Portfolio tool, because here only the assignments that have been handed in are displayed.
It may therefore be prudent to do a hand in on behalf of these students by using Hand in on behalf of and enter a title so an empty document is created (possibly with some comments):
You can then note that no work was handed in by this student, so it clearly appears in the portfolio.
Handed in outside of the Hand in folder
It does happen that some students hand in work outside of the actual hand-in folder. This tends to happen if the folder is in the resource tool so it is possible to upload a file without opening the hand-in folder. Alternatively this could also happen if the student uses the Copy function.
You must first make sure that the folder is open (active). Then, as a teacher you will be able to drag and drop the work directly to the hand-in folder, and the submission will be attached to the student's name as if it had been handed in "normally". If this is a group hand-in you will have to select Edit properties in front of the document handed in and tick for this.
Comments, verification and marking
The teacher will at all times be able to have full overview of the hand-ins:
Two of the students have handed in their "documents", but several of them have not yet handed in.
When you are evaluating the assignments that have been handed in, you must select the drop down menu from the little symbol in front of the filename:
You are now ready to evaluate/ comment.
The symbols to the right are:
 |
Approved |
 |
In progress |
 |
Not approved |
 |
Not delivered |
 |
Not evaluated |
Commenting directly in the document
If the text is not too voluminous it can be handy to give comments directly in the text:
You just click on the work as shown in the figure above, write your comments and save before you go back out. Here the function "Open - Edit - Save will be used automatically (if you use Internet Explorer), so you get directly into a copy of the file that has been handed in, and can write your comments there. The actual source programme (Word, Excel, etc) starts automatically so you can write where it is appropriate in the text. For the students to be able to find your comments easily, you ought to use frames, colours, highlights etc to keep your comments apart from the actual submitted work.
When you save the file it will happen locally on your PC, but as you close the source programme/ document, this copy will be transferred to Fronter. You will get the following confirmation if this was successful:
After commenting in the document you will get two links that were not there before;
One of these is the commented on file that can be opened or downloaded, whilst the other one reverts the commented on file to the original:
With this option there is no going back!
Uploading your comments
Some people prefer to make comments outside of the submitted file. This can be practical if the document is quite large, is an image or it is read as a paper version rather than electronically.
The comments are then written in Word, for example, and are uploaded as a normal file:
This option gets you to this picture:
As you can see you can choose the position of the comment file: Either from the PC or from the resource folder, and when it is uploaded we can find it here:
If you want to delete this comment file you click on Recreate version without comments.
Write comments in the comment field
You can in addition write comments in the separate field where you will also be given the option to decide on a mark, as well as verifying the completed work:
Depending on whether you choose Approved/ Not approved, In progress, Not delivered or Not evaluated you will get the following symbols in the display:
If you tick for Details on the top you will get a detailed display:
Recording no hand in has taken place
As mentioned earlier it can be useful to make a submission for a student who has not handed in any work and then record this on the comment page:
This will then appear in the Final assessment portfolio. Details of this can be found in the theme document about portfolio.
Read comments
Each student will only be able to see his/her own completed work. In the illustration below we will see how Fay views the comments.
The student can read the comment as well as looking at the mark by selecting Read comments:
If something is written in the comments field, it will look like this:
The student will be able to click on the commented document (if you have made comments directly in it):
If you have uploaded a comment document it is displayed like this:
