Project+Share

=Project Share =

Here you will find practical uses for Project Share and some things that I have created to assist my students.

ONE NOTE: If your students or you are using Internet Explorer sometimes there is problems uploading files. Safari, Mozilla, and the others work without problems. Not sure why, but there are issues with that.

Accounts
- This has been the more challenging part. Trying to get my students accounts set up can be arduous when their login does not work properly - About 90% of them work like a charm -At our school we have a designated technology person whom is in charge of this -Some students who log on are prompted to place a security question on the account. There is no work around.

Setting up Classes or Courses
- you can set up a course online -However it may look live, but your technology administrator has to make it live -This is not openly discussed in the training or in the help material -It would be highly beneficial if you could see what the students could see. Their side looks different from yours occasionally.

Drop Box through Project Share
-Students like this option. They like being able to upload pictures, word documents, etc - For electronic Projects you have a time stamp on when it was turned in -Before the time change the time was an hour behind. So if you lock your drop box at a specific time, check the clock on the website to ensure it is on time -You can leave it in the default mode which is where they can only see their items in the drop box or change it so that they can see each others materials. I prefer to lock it down. Students also prefer this.



Email
-When I grade an online project I use Excel -When I finish I can send this to the students through their dropbox account -They like the immediate feedback about their grade. BE AWARE- if they message you and it goes to your private account, you can not respond to them unless they give you their email address -So when a student needs an answer, they end up waiting unless you log on to the system and respond.

Work Groups
- you have to go into your courses and set them up. I have found no place where I can have them group themselves yet - Great for collaborating on projects and lab reports - Students can upload one file, work on it together, and then drop it in the Drop Box for a grade