Landing : Athabascau University

Landing Activity Summary as an Embedded Assessment Tool

I was thinking that an activity summary that enabled participants to self-identify the activity category and type using a menu like the access drop-down menu, and including some of the items from the list below could be used for participants' self-monitoring and feedback, and be a useful tool for instructors working with their learners within cohorts. This would enable instructors a one-page glance at the activity stats to aid with interventions, feedback, encouraging words, etc. It would also set into motion an opportunity for learners to become more self-regulating in how they use the AU landing features.

I recently took a look at my account activity summary. These artefacts present only part of the picture, however. Here is a list of activities most advanced users engage in within AU Landing, categorized by whether it is knowledge-building activity (primarily concerned with sense-making and idea generation to aid with completion of assignments), network-building activity (primarily concerned with making connections with ideas, persons, and other communities), or identity-building activity (primary concern is profiling, monitoring and coordinating activities, as well as self-development tasks).

Identity Building Activities

Creating profile details

Adding profile photo

Updating profile details

Configuring your personal settings using Account Tab

personalizing dashboard

managing widgets 

reviewing personal account activity using Activity Tab

modifying access permissions on published content

 

Knowledge Building Activities

writing blog posts

updating blog posts

editing tags

adding bookmarks

uploading files for reflection

uploading photos for archiving

reviewing help files/FAQs using Help Tab

using search box to find content, people, posts

 

Network Building Activities

uploading files for review

uploading photos for review

commenting on posts

commenting on comments

joining groups

voting on poll

following someone

creating wire post

starting a new discussion topic

creating new group

Adding Activity Tab for groups or collection

Using Member search via tag feature from members page

Create new collection of followers/followed members

Subscribe to RSS feeds (add feed to browser or to RSS Feed aggregator outside AU Landing such as Google Reader or BlogLines)

Add Bookmarklet to browser links toolbar

Customizing Activity Tab to filter content from data stream for searching/monitoring

Adding Twitter plugin using Configure Tools

Enable Activity Tabs for Groups or Collections of Followers

Configure Notifications