Assignment

This is a discussion of Thai culture as it relates to learning. 

The focus is on understanding, mitigating the worst, and leveraging the best. 

Ability to change the mark for an assignment and document the reason. 

i.e. for copying (detected by the system) both (all six) assignments receive -5 points or better the source receives no credit and the copiers -5

exceptional work +3 points

the delta along with documentation is available for parents and supervisors to view

A vital value of school is to credibly show that the student has learned.  Certificate, grade, and transcript are common.   

LSS also provides student work, feedback, revisions, and adaptation.

LSS provides some features to mitigate fraud i.e. detecting plagiarism.

This reflects on the student, teachers, and school.

One strategy for helping talented bored students is to facilitate them acting as Teacher's Assistants (TAs).  An example is to enable them to markup some peer's work with teacher monitoring.

Stronger students and weaker students learn more.  

TAs might be celebrated or effectively secret, TAs provide feedback online and perhaps discretely in person, depending on the school culture.

The system can add value by giving select students markup access to a few other student's class work.

Many students do not care.  A lot of time is spent wondering (mostly complaining about) why and trying to induce caring.  This is rarely effective with poor students but always starves good students.

One strategy is Tit for Tat: focus on students who demonstrate interest and reward them with attention, guidance, and feedback.

An example is providing feedback on written work.  Spending a lot of time to provide quality feedback which is not even read is a waste of time and worse deprives an eager student.

teacher should be able to provide rich feedback i.e.

circle an error "missing article, see page 17 of the English handout"

sometimes rewrite a whole sentence, keep the original for comparison, and provide references 

track revisions of material 

compare to see progress

move back if necessary

The teacher should be able to make plans for material.  Perhaps actual dates for next week and an order i.e. this material then this assignment then this test ...

kind of a syllabus in progress

a good start for next year would be to have the same material in the same order with no dates

1. teacher may view assignments:
1. current, past, future
2. a set of classes
3. a summary of student activity: draft, missing, submitted, and final
2. for a single assignment by student:
1. graded, to be graded
2. submitted, draft, final, missing

1. teacher creates an assignment 
1. description, points, class i.e. 9th grade supplementary English, due date ...
2. student views assignment
3. student submits work to assignment
4. teacher views work & marks
5. teacher can finalize or enable rework