eFolio Overview
Some definitions to begin with...
Learner: Each International Team is a learner. The 2 US students and their advisor and the 2 International students and their advisors are assigned to a learner (their team name).
Advisor: Every GC participant is an advisor to at least one learner (one student team). If you are an adult advisor, you may be an advisor to several learners (several student teams), for example, some team advisors oversee multiple country teams. They would be assigned to multiple learners.
Within your International Team eFolio, you have a home page. On the left of the page are 2 areas: Planning & Solutions. These are the areas you will use to create, discuss, post, and polish your work on your weekly challenges and business plan.
Planning: Use this section for discussions about what you are planning to do. Each discussion is called a "goal" (e.g. “let's research AI”). Then the team can talk about that goal and everything you say is saved there in a message board.
- Surveys This area iinks to surveys that the GC staff have asked your team to complete.
- Goals When you want to post something for the team to discuss, create a "new" goal. It will bring up a form where you a subject or discussion for the goal, select the standards that it applies to (if applicable), and then the details your message. Your teammates will be notified of the new goal. When they open the goal, there will be a button for comment. All discussion on the goal will be listed below it, so you can look back through the discussion you have had.
- Resources Here you will find some general resources that may be useful to you.
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Solutions: This section is for your drafts of documents, drawings, graphics and anything else you create. Each item you make is a parent thread. In addition, “Rubrics" are available to the team, your adult advisors and us at the project. You can always delete anything you make, so experiment and delete as you wish. Members of the team get emails when you make a goal or respond to work and when you make things ready for feedback BUT ONLY IF you pick their name to enable them to see the work from the list of Advisors! |
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- Folders You may create any folders that you need and name them any way you like. We give you a set of folders that includes:
- STEM Explorations
- GBP and TIP Challenges
- Hands-On Projects
- etc.
- Rubrics See the expectations set for each aspect of the online competition. We recommend that the whole team use the appropriate rubric to score your drafts! This will give you a very good idea of your final score in the competition.
- Work There are 3 status levels for work— Draft, Ready for Feedback, and Complete. When you open “New Work” it will prompt you to enter a topic or subject, select a status level of the work, select the folder where the work will be displayed, and then post your work or upload a file. Use "Draft" to keep things hidden from everyone. Use "Ready for Feedback" to have an open discussion with your team and advisors (and nobody else). It is best to keep everything in "Ready" mode right up until April 30. Only set your final submission to "Complete" and only do that when you are ready in late April.