Platform to manage a shared folder for a large number of teams.

1. From a PLE to a
Collaborative environment
Abelardo Pardo
Department of Telematic Engineering
University Carlos III of Madrid

2. SubCollaboration
• Students are divided into
4 or 5 people teams
• Each team shares one
folder
• Folder is initially cloned
from a model
• Easy to propagate
changes from model to
student folders
• Easy to monitor the
activities in the folder
From a PLE to a Collaborative environment 2

3. Shared folders
From a PLE to a Collaborative environment 3

4. Advantages
• Flexible folder (some dirs
fixed + some created by
the students)
• Easy to answer questions
(when combined with the
forum)
• Easy to track submissions
• Easy to include “on the fly”
changes
• Ready to include some more
aggressive adaptation
From a PLE to a Collaborative environment 4

5. Changing workspace
• Read-only folders
• Read/write folders
• No-permission
folders
From a PLE to a Collaborative environment 5

6. Appearance
• CLI tool
• Administrator required
• Access to a machine
serving a SVN
repository
• Accepted by instructors
• Surprisingly easy to
introduce to students
# Section 5 (5 teams)
100066879 100072751 100060691 # Team 38
100066981 100081433 100081435 100066983 # Team 39
100081436 100073284 100074810 100081397 # Team 40
100073325 100081398 100066842 100081472 # Team 41
100081407 100068925 100077072 100081483 # Team 42
From a PLE to a Collaborative environment 6

7. Status
• In use in a second year
course
• Easy deployment
• Tool being polished
• Potential for more formal
collaborative activities
• Integrated within a “script”
From a PLE to a Collaborative environment 7