This scenario describes the activities of a teacher using the virtual school to grade a collaborative lab exercise some students have completed. The user, Mr. Quest, is an 8th grade physical sciences teacher.
Mr. Quest logs into the virtual school system by entering his username and password into the appropriate text edit fields on the login dialog box and clicking the "Go" button. After his identity has been authenticated the teacher's bookcase is displayed. The teachers bookcase has different shelves for the different projects in their class, with the appropriate group's notebooks. There is also a shelf for the teacher's personal notebooks.
After Mr. Quest has logged in, he selects the notebook on the "Block and Plane Lab" shelf which corresponds to the group consisting of Bob, Jenny and Mark. Two tiled windows are then presented. The window on the right contains the names and icons representing all of the group members. The names and icons of the group members not currently logged in are grayed out. The other window contains that group's notebook. Also, the teacher's grading tool palette is displayed separate from the two windows.
The first thing Mr. Quest needs to do is contact the currently logged in group members and let them know he is ready to start grading their Block and Plane Lab. He clicks on the group icon in the right window. A menu pops up containing options that allow the user to Email the group, text chat with the group, A/V conference with the group, or view the group profile. He selects text chat with the group. After the text chat is established, Mr. Quest indicates that he is ready to grade their assignment.
On the notebook, Mr. Quest clicks on the tab labeled "Block and Plane". The notebook opens to the initial pages of the Block and Plane lab. Advancing past the instructional portion of the notebook, Mr. Quest examines the data collected by the group. Noticing that the group did an excellent job using the block and plane simulation and accompanying graphing utility, Mr. Quest selects the drawing tool from his grading tool palette. He then chooses a nice non-error colour such as green and draws a circle around the table with the data. Selecting the text tool from the grading tool palette he thens add the remark "Excellent Work!".
Having graded the table of data Mr. Quest advances to the next page (See possible notebook page navigation scenarios). Noticing that the answer to question number 1 isn't complete he repeats the use of the drawing tool and text tools from the grading tool palette. This time, however, his remark is "Incomplete answer". At this point Mark, who wonders what is incomplete about the answer, interjects his question as to what was wrong with the answer via the text chat and then Mr. Quest explains to the group what their answer lacked.
Mr. Quest grades the rest of the questions and has a couple of additional explanatory conversations with the group as to what could have been done better. After finishing the group interactive grading Mr. Quest selects the grade tool from the grading tool palette and awards the groups assignment a grade of "92". The grade tool emails the grade to all group members
Mr. Quest then concludes with a final comment via the text chat "Nice work, see you in class tomorrow" and logs out.
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