EXCL solution

I got rostered into 2 Excl classes, and one of the profs and I were trying to figure out how the students can post their narratives privately (some apparently had some sensitive material in there they didn't care to share with the class). We talked about them emailing to me, but I wasn't really comfortable with that as I thought some might end up thinking I was their private writing advisor and email me next semester for help!

We were also aware of the university's concerns, that there should be some oversight of instruction. Not that I'd do anything inappropriate, but better to make that clear by having a non-private communication with students. And finally, I think the professor understandably wanted to see whwhat I was doing so she could warn me off if I steered a student the wrong way. ("This would be so cool done in verse!") And we agreed it would be good if we could do it IN the classroom rather than having the student have to attempt something maybe unfamiliar like Google Notes.

We stumbled on a solution-- still in experiment-- using the classroom Study Groups (which the prof can set up). Each student gets a study group, and the members are the student, the advisor, and the professor.
Still working out kinks (Conference or collaborative docs? Conference works better so far, but the students upload a file, so it doesn't make that much difference). Also, I told Richard Daumit (my other section) that we were trying this, and he wanted to try it, and set up study groups with the student's name. (This made it much easier to match the paper with the study group it came from.)

Anyway, the study group option seemed to solve a lot of problems, and it's working pretty well so far.

Alicia