Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Educación continuada
Academic Field Formación complementaria
Course Name A1 - Breakthrough
Course Code 901001
Course Type Methodological Can be yes ☐ No ☒
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 4
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial ☒ ☐ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Practical learning &
activity: 50
evaluation
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity: 17th
27th December 2017 January 2017
Competence to develop:

To express effectively and, in a written form, ideas about

contextualized/real situations, taking care the proper use of grammar
and vocabulary learned through the course.
Topics to develop:

Simple present, Present continuous, Describing things and places,

Places/location, Possessives – adjectives, There is/ there are and
prepositions, As…as, so….as, similarly, and yet, on the other hand,
however, at the same time, on the contrary, in any case.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop

 Group intervention (First week)

 Individual intervention (Second and third week)
 Individual intervention (Fourth week)

Activities to develop

To write a text in which the e-student shows the level of proficiency in

the use of grammar and vocabulary acquired during the English courses
with the support of the e- tutor and other e-students.

During the process of the writing activity, the e-student acquires the
skills according to writing, to complete the final product, in which the
skills expected to be acquired are: style, creativity, coherence,
cohesion, grammar, vocabulary and punctuation.

In the final version of your short story you must take into account if this
comply the following requirements:

 First page: front page

 Second page: short story
 Third page: pictures according to his/her final work.

Descriptions must be complete and include at least 5 lines each

one.
Environment
for the Practical learning and evaluation
development
Individual:

Students write a short story and give their opinions

about their partners’ work by participating in the
Products to Forum. Construction and consolidation of the final
deliver by work.
student
 Collaborative:

Share opinions about the video, and what kind of short

story each member want to write about according to
their preferences.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

 Group intervention (First week): In the

forum, the group participants will share their
opinions about the video, and what kind of short
story each member want to write about according
to their preferences.

Every member must participate at least 3 times,

posting his/her own contributions: personal
decision about the short story they want to write,
and also their opinions about their partners’
topics.

Spanish contributions are not going to be

Planning of
taken into account.
activities for
the
 Individual intervention (Second and third
development
week): To develop this activity, students write a
of
short story and giving their opinions about their
collaborative
partners’ work by participating in the Forum in a
work
period no later than 3 days before the final due
date (based on University regulations and
academic policies, see academic resolution
006808).

 Individual intervention (Fourth week):

Construction and consolidation of the final work.
Each E student will design a final version of a
short story, using either yumpu magazine, or
power point presentation. Each student must
upload his/her own final product. If the student
choose Yumpu must check the link works
publishing his/ her finished task.
Use of
http://normasapa.net/normas-apa-2016/
references
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

Plagiarism
are:
policy
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=
4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric

Individual Collaborati
Activity type: ☐ ☒
Activity ve Activity
Moment of Unit
the Initial ☒ Intermedi ☐ Final ☐
evaluation ate:
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity
Score
Aspects Media
High score Low score
score
Participates
Does not
according to Participation
participate in
what is is regular
the forum of
Forum stablished in and does
the activity
participation the guide of not give an
and does not
and the activity. opinion to 10
give opinion
collaborative Gives opinion partner’s points
about
work. concerning contribution
partner’s
partner’s s.
contributions.
contributions.
(up to 10 (up to 7 (up to 3
points) points) points)
The final
product
The final
contains The final
product
some of the product does
contains
grammar not contain the
vocabulary
and grammatical
and grammar
Grammar vocabulary and vocabulary 10
aspects
aspects aspects related in the points
related in
related in knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge Environment.
environment.
environment
.
(up to 10 (up to 7 (up to 3
points) points) points)
 The text has
The text does
The text has the activity’s
not have the
the activity’s structure
activity’s
structure and although it
Cohesion structure and
follows all the does not 10
and does not follow
guide’s follow some points
coherence guide’s
instructions guide’s
instructions.
instructions
(up to 10 (up to 7 (up to 3
points) points) points)
The product The product
totally partially The product
accomplish accomplish does not
the guide’s the guide’s accomplish the
requirements: requirement guide’s
• First s: requirements:
page: front First page: First page:
page• front page• front page•
Second Secon Second
Text 10
page: short d page: page: short
presentation points
story• short story• story•
Third Third Third
page: page: page: pictures
pictures pictures according to
according to according to his/her final
his/her final his/her final work
work. work.
(up to 10 (up to 7 (up to 3
points) points) points)
The story
The story
partially The story does
shows the
shows the not show the
grammatical
grammatical grammatical
content 10
Story content content within
studied within points
within the E- the E-book.
the E-book.
book.
(up to 10 (up to 7 (up to 3
points) points) points)