Arxius de Leadership - Tecnocentres

Today, I would like to introduce an application that I helped create in its early stages. It has been a while since I was last able to lend a hand, but I have followed the initiative closely, and I believe it is interesting to share, as it can be useful for many secondary schools.

In Catalonia, spanning between the first and second years of Batxillerat (upper secondary education), there is a subject called Treball de Recerca (Research Project). As the name suggests, all students must carry out a research project, usually in small groups. Through this, students learn how to pose hypotheses, search for reliable sources, cite them correctly, conduct fieldwork to confirm or dismiss the hypothesis, draw conclusions, and so on.

This application, TRapp, helps to manage the complete tracking of all these research projects within a school (students, tutors, evidence, assessment, reports, etc.).

It can also be useful for schools outside of Catalonia that carry out research projects with students in a structured manner regarding time and format. However, for the time being, it is only available in Catalan, though being open-source software, anyone can translate it.

The idea is very simple. Director, for example, creates a folder structure and assigns permissions to each folder (starting from the top folder, as permissions are inherited from the top folder). An example would be:

Course 2013-2014
- Groups
- Timtables
- RED (reuniones de equipos docentes)
  - 1r ESO
  - 2n ESO
  - 3r ESO
  - 4t ESO
- Guardias
- Creditos de síntesis
  - 1r ESO
  - 2n ESO
  - 3r ESO
- …

The folder to be shared is Course 2013-2014 and, if the permissions have been assigned, the other folders will be automatically accessible. If the Classes 2013-2014 folder is shared with all teachers, better through a group (Sharing documents and calendar with Google groups), everyone will receive an email with the link. When you open the folder, they will see its contents and a button that allows you to add this folder to your drive, to have it always located easily.

It will no longer be necessary to share the documents individually. By placing them in the corresponding folder, everyone will have immediate and organized access.

When a document is hung up, no mail is sent. If you want to notify, you will have to use the Send an email to the collaborators option, which is located inside the More button (if the document has been selected).

In the same way, you can create folders for Departments, Student Groups, etc.

In addition, if a new teacher joins the centre, you just need to provide him/her with the link to the initial folder and he/she will automatically have all the previous documents sorted in perfect order.

I think it’s a simple way for everyone to keep their documents in order.

Category: Leadership

TRapp: An Application to Track a School’s Research Projects

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