instructions

For Thursday's Lab exercise you created instructions to upload graphics files into your blog.
Now you are going to grade each other's work using the rubric below.

I have sent everyone in the class an email with the blog addresses (URLs) of the three blogs you are to grade. Attached to this message is an Excel spreadsheet with the rubric and spaces for you to fill in grades of each section for each student's blog that you should grade. All you need to do is to open the student's blog, open the Excel spreadsheet, and work your way down the rubric giving points where you see the things listed. The "discretionary" category is for you to rate quality of explanation of the uploading process (is it easy to follow etc).

Thus each student will grade three other student's blogs and will be graded three times. I will take the average of the three grades you have been given and then add 8 points for each blog that you grade yourself (a total of 25). Therefore, your final grade will be out of 75 - 50 for the instructions and 25 for grading other's blogs.

When you have finished entering the grades into your spreadsheet you need to save it to drive H: using the filename username_blog_grades.xls (eg markp_blog_grades.xls). Then you need to send the spreadsheet as an attachment to markp with the subject line "week 2 blog grading" by Monday Sept 15th noon.

Here's my version of instructions to upload files to a blog.

grading rubric

This is the grading rubric in the Excel spreadsheet. A few words of explanation:

Item 9 means to "do the instructions have a reference to doing a popup image?"
Item 10 means "is there a description of what a popup graphic is?"
Item 15 means "is there a popup image actually in the instruction list?"
Item 17 means "is there a popup image of a screenshot of the process in the instructions?"

And the same follows for the embedded image items 11, 12 , 14 & 16

  Uploading File to Blog Grading rubric      
  In a web browser go to the blog entry you are going to grade.        
  Do the instructions have: Points to allocate blog #1 blog #2 blog#3
1 Upload file 2      
2 Browse 2      
3 Local Site Path 2      
4 Upload 2      
5 Create New Entry 2      
6 explain what this does 4      
7 Show HTML 2      
8 explain what you do with this
(ie select all, copy & paste into blog entry
4      
9 Pop-up image 2      
10        what effect does this have? 2      
11 Embedded image 2      
12       what does this do? 2      
13 Save 2      
           
  Is there the following:        
14 Embedded image 2      
15 Popup image 2      
16 Embedded screenshot of the upload process
(as a separate graphic)
4      
17 Popup screenshot of the upload process
(as a separate graphic)
4      
           
18 Discretionary (quality of explanation, easy to follow, lucid) 8      
           
  TOTAL 50 0 0 0