The thing I've found most valuable about Frog3 is the task setting/marking. Over 7 years this has totally changed the way I work. All my marking is now done on Frog.
We are now moving to Frog Learn. It looks so much better, and has the lovely mark book.
Yet I can’t get my head around the workflow.
I set a task, with a deadline in say a week, longer if it is a major piece of work.Many students submit early.I mark their work promptly. They get to see my comment but NOT my mark. Why not? On the old platform these early submitters, dissatisfied with their mark and/or taking on board my comment, often messaged asking for a chance to resubmit. Great learning.
Even more bizarre: task closing. Once a task closes you can’t mark it!Surely closing a task should stop students submitting, but not teachers from marking.This is a fundamental error. Ok, I can get around this by NOT closing the task but then what was the point in the task having an auto-close date at all?I can’t see the ‘window’ in which teachers are supposed to mark!
Sometimes work submitted is inadequate and I return it, with a comment and a demand to re-do. But once the task is closed there is no opportunity for students to resubmit.I have to re-open the task for all. On the old platform I could close a task (‘force handin’) then return work to individuals as required.I can’t see how to do that now.
It is quite possible that these annoyances are because there is something I’ve failed to appreciate. If so, please enlighten me!
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Mark Berry
The thing I've found most valuable about Frog3 is the task setting/marking. Over 7 years this has totally changed the way I work. All my marking is now done on Frog.
We are now moving to Frog Learn. It looks so much better, and has the lovely mark book.
Yet I can’t get my head around the workflow.
I set a task, with a deadline in say a week, longer if it is a major piece of work. Many students submit early. I mark their work promptly. They get to see my comment but NOT my mark. Why not? On the old platform these early submitters, dissatisfied with their mark and/or taking on board my comment, often messaged asking for a chance to resubmit. Great learning.
Even more bizarre: task closing. Once a task closes you can’t mark it! Surely closing a task should stop students submitting, but not teachers from marking. This is a fundamental error. Ok, I can get around this by NOT closing the task but then what was the point in the task having an auto-close date at all? I can’t see the ‘window’ in which teachers are supposed to mark!
Sometimes work submitted is inadequate and I return it, with a comment and a demand to re-do. But once the task is closed there is no opportunity for students to resubmit. I have to re-open the task for all. On the old platform I could close a task (‘force handin’) then return work to individuals as required. I can’t see how to do that now.
It is quite possible that these annoyances are because there is something I’ve failed to appreciate. If so, please enlighten me!
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