Asynchronous Activities with Google Docs and Slides

The share settings in Google Docs and Google Slides allow instructors and small groups to easily share documents and contribute to them collaboratively.

Google Doc or Slide Guidelines and Grading Criteria Examples

Collaborative Document Criteria

A portion of your final grade is based on your contribution to and the production of a high quality collaborative document. Collaborative documents are intended to encourage learners to exchange ideas throughout a module in order to produce a useful product on a given topic. To ensure that your collaboration is most productive, make sure you read any available instructions carefully before interacting. Additionally, post your initial entry in the document by the mid-module due date (when forum entries are due), following up throughout the week with revisions and comments to your work and the work of others as you build together.

Grading Criteria: Collaborative Document

Evidence of interaction among classmates (i.e. comments/questions, revisions, additions) – 4 points
Addresses all required content/questions – 4 points
High-quality mechanics (spelling, grammar, punctuation) – 2 points

Total: 10 points for each assignment

Template Criteria

A portion of your final grade is based on your satisfactory completion of templates used in this course. To earn these grades, you will need to access a template via Google Drive while signed in to your Bethel email and fill in the blank template fields with the required information. Unless otherwise indicated:

Your template must fully address each of the required areas.
Your template must adhere to the word count requirements of the specific assignment instructions.
You may use conversational language, but pay attention to your grammar, sentence structure, and spelling.
There are no formatting (i.e., double-spacing, title page, font, etc.) requirements for your work.
Remember to properly cite ideas that are not your own if you use them.

Grading Criteria: Template Criteria

Inclusion of all required content – 5 points
Adequate depth, clarity, and understanding – 5 points

Total: 10 points

Class Notebook (using Google Slides)

A portion of your final grade is based on your completion of a "class notebook." You will be provided with a Google Slide template with a slide for each class session. After class session complete the activities on the corresponding slide.

You must fully complete the activities and sections on each slide.
You may use conventional language, bullets, etc., but pay attention to your grammar, sentence structure and spelling.
There are no formatting (i.e., double-spacing, title page, font, etc.) requirements for your work, other than your responses need to fit within each slide.
Remember to properly cite ideas that are not your own if you use them. You can use comments for this if space is an issue.
You must share your class notebook with your instructor.

Grading Criteria: Class Notebook Criteria

Inclusion of all required content – 5 points
Adequate depth, clarity, and understanding – 5 points

Total: 10 points

Google Doc and Google Slide Due Dates

When using Google Docs for asynchronous activities it is important to time them to coincide well with the course rhythm. Below are some examples for how to structure due dates for these types of activities.

In-person or Online Synchronous Course Example

Before the first class session of the week…

This section must be completed first, prior to the week's first class session.
This includes initial forum posts (but not reply posts), practice quizzes, initial interactions in collaborative activities, and other informal work to be built upon later in the module.

Before the second class session of the week…

This section must be completed prior to the week's second class session.
This includes replies to forum posts, final interactions in collaborative activities, and final module activities.

Fully Online Course Example

Begin the module…

This section begins on Monday.

This section must be completed first, prior to submitting any work.

Participate in the module…

This section must be completed mid-module, by Thursday at 11:55PM.
This includes initial forum posts (but not reply posts), practice quizzes, initial interactions in collaborative activities, and other informal work to be built upon later in the module.

Complete the module and look ahead…

This section must be completed by end-of-module, Sunday at 11:55PM.
This includes replies to forum posts, final interactions in collaborative activities, and final module activities.