Why would you want to grab a link to a post? This is an easy way to track student participation in a group. Rather than trying to tally up how many times a student posted or replied in a group, create an assignment where the student turns in the links to either the posts they created or replied to. I use this method to keep track of participation in our Scribe City writing group.
If you notice in the above assignments, the students are posting their writing/replies publicly to the group AND turning in a 5-10 sentence reflection on the process which only I will read. This step helps to build metacognitive thinking skills. Using this process of turning in a link to a post saves me time with assessing student participation and keeps the students writing.
What a great idea for assessment! The interaction is one way to track students using the H.O.T.S. identifiers. But their reflection is a valuable piece of information that tells how much effort the student was putting into the post.
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