ALERT e-portfolio problem

ALERT e-portfolio problem June 28, 2005

Posted by Andy Roberts in : learning , trackback

The following needs to be shouted from the rooftops in order to avoid losing students’ work and mistakenly marking incomplete assessment products, which by all accounts has already happend.

“All folders you create in your File Cabinet are ‘ghost’ folders - they don’t really exist. Folders are for you to help you organise your work. If you upload documents with the same name, the latter upload will replace the older.”
[..]
“As I said above, folders are not real items; use different names for your documents otherwise your older work will be overwritten by the newer upload.”

The implications of this may not have sunk in to everybody at Ultraversity yet.

Say you create a folder and call it MODULE-1

then upload some work into waht you think is MODULE-1/intro
MODULE-1/main and MODULE-1/conclusions

You hand that in to be marked, then start work on module 2.

If you create another folder called ACTION_ENQUIRY-1 and then upload a file into it called “intro” it will overwrite the file called “intro” which you thought was all safely tucked away in MODULE-1. You may well not notice this. The person marking your work might not even notice, and you get back a coversheet which says “This work is good in parts, but doesn’t hang together very well”.

Pretty serious, huh? Or maybe the explanation from technical support is all wrong, in which case somebody will let me know and I’ll delete this entry.

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