Available supporting software and technology: UP policies and procedures
There are several electronic platforms which can assist lecturers in dividing students into groups and facilitating their online collaboration for activities and projects. Some of these, such as iPeer, Peer Assess Pro and CATME, have refined processes for students to evaluate and give feedback to their peer group members. At UP, it is of great importance to use existing institutional systems optimal but also that systems should integrate with the clickUP Grade Centre to support student success interventions. For this reason, in the first place, it is highly recommended that lecturers use the collaboration-enabling tools in clickUP.
Although clickUP may not be suitable for all the use cases due to of the wide variety of cooperative and collaborative projects, it has the value of single means of authentication, data integration and institutional support and sustainability. With most external software, this is not the case. A further complication is that any software that is not used institution-wide (however valuable to the learning environment), can not be supported by the Department for Education Innovation. The Education Technology Guideline Document* is of relevance. This document promotes the use of institutional software to its fullest as the University makes significant investments into these software platforms and can provide the needed proper support. In principle, innovation is not prohibited, but there are numerous challenges associated with diversifying software solutions or duplication of software solutions. For the purchasing, management and support of additional (non-institutionalised) software, departments will have to take ownership and accept the responsibility to collaborate with the Department of Information Technology.
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