Mini-Byte: Using the SchoolFusion Drop Box
Posted by tekkieteacher on October 22, 2007
Do you want to save yourself the time of collecting all those papers during class time? How does the idea of saving trees sound to you? Would you like to be able to provide students feedback on their work without printing a THING?!?!
If these ideas sound attractive to you, you might want to try using SchoolFusion’s Digital Dropbox feature. When you create an assignment, simply check the box that says “Allow students to submit homework online”. Back on your class webpage, beneath the assignment, a “submit your file link” will appear, allowing students to submit homework electronically.
To view the submitted assignments, just click “View the <#> file in the <Assignment Name> dropbox”. Additionally, everytime an assignment is “dropped off” electronically, you will receive an email notification.
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:52 pm
I have had some problems with the electronic drop box. A couple of times the students’ work has come through as jibberish ( sort of looks like huge bar codes!). It is handy though, and you can never lose their papers!
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Robin,
Thanks so much for your comment!
When you see “jibberish” it probably means that the student did his/her assignment using some other program besides what you are opening the file with. For example, if you try to open a wordperfect document in MS Office, you get jibberish. If this happens, let either me or the librarians know as we have a few tricks up our sleeves for jibberish translation!