As evident, your community will be judged on what you have created and where you have led it over the course of the contest. While evaluating you, the judging panel will have a look at the following heads:
- Lessons/Pages
- Tests/Quizzes
- Discussions and Debates
- Adverse Events (the lesser the number, the better)
- Trivia
- Courses
In more detail:
- Lessons/Pages: Your lessons will be graded on the following criteria -
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- How broad is the appeal of the lesson?
- How relevant is the content?
- How original is the content? Is it free from plagiarism?
- Is the language clear/lucid?
- Have you employed pictures/videos/presentations to make the topic more interesting?
- Does the lesson contain a creative/innovative means of describing the topic at hand?
- Is the focus of the lesson correct? Does the content do justice to the topic?
- Tests/Quizzes: Your tests and quizzes are tools for you to guage how people are able to grasp your topic. Apart from testing the efficacy of your content, quizzes are a great way to keep the grey cells active. Your quizzes/tests will be evaluated on the following criteria:
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- Are the questions original?
- Do the questions test the concept(s) discussed on the lesson?
- Do the answers enhance understanding?
- Discussions: Discussions are the life of a
community - more often than not, the truest measure of the activity
in a community is the existing level of discussion in it.
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- Are valid points being raised in the discussions?
- How relevant are the discussions? Do they do justice to the content and the scope of the community?
- Are all queries raised by users addressed on the discussion boards?
- Debates: Debates are not a product of
misunderstanding - rather they are indicative an opportunity to
grasp greater insights! A debate in your community is perhaps the
opportunity for you to guage how people have grasped your content
and whether or not your vision has been fulfilled.
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- Are the debates being effectively moderated?
- Are the opposing parties being drawn to the scope of the debate effectively?
- Of all the debates that are taking place, how many are
relevant?
- Trivia: Fun and engaging - not only for those
who play the game
, but also for
those who craft them in the first place! Trivia in your community
will be evaluated on the following heads
- Apart from the community owner, what proportion of users are
contributing to it?
- Quality of questions -
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- Does the trivia generate enough interest in the content of the community?
- Does the trivia support or supplement the learning achieved via the content?
- Rating by users: Your trivia questions will be rated by users from across the globe. This will also be a criteria, since it directly informs us of user perception.
- Adverse Events: Online communities and networks are vulnerable to events of misuse by users. Such events are labeled as adverse events and detailed below:
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- Copyright Infringement -
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- Is the content created on the community page the author's original work or has it been reproduced from another source?
- In case a variety of sources have been used to compile the information - then does the author quote the sources? Does the author clearly mention his contribution - apart from gathering information, i.e. does the author combine information from different sources and use his/her own skills to create something new?
- Posting information that hurts other user's sensitivities
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- Is the content or the nature of posts in discussions/debates, abusive or characterised by slander?
- Is the tone of posts inappropriate?
- Posting pornographic or other abusive content
- Any other form of content that the organizing team deems inappropriate in nature
- Courses: Courses are your ventures to reach
out to people and share your knowledge with them. You are free to
structure your courses, in terms of both content and the scope
thereof. A list of topics that will be considered while evaluating
courses is -
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- Number of students enrolled in the course
- Course contents
- Course content and its relevance to the scope of the course
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- Course material - how easy to read/understand is it?
- Tests - how effectively do the tests guage a users learning?
Photo Credit
Trivia, by scottfeldstein
Eye, by cobalt
Count, by striatic
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Post Comments
Poshmonkey said – Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:24:42 -0000 ( Flag Edit Link )
I agree with Guarav. I would also be very much interested in knowing the deadline for this competition. So, are we talking about 1 month, 6 months, 1 year or longer?