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JotForm, a Web 2.0 Assessment Tool for
Online Learning
Web 2.0 assessment tools, like the ones found among Moodle LMS tools,
can be used to track and evaluate student progress in online or blended
learning courses. When learners use these tools to share, analyze, develop,
and locate content, it not only increases student-student interaction, but
also student-instructor interaction. This way of increasing interaction
provides teachers the opportunity to assess students throughout the entire
learning process rather than just at the end of it. Additionally, the
interactive nature of these Web 2.0 assessment tools also increases
student engagement and potencializes the learning experience and the
achievement of learning goals.
Potencializing student learning and having them achieve learning goals can
also be done with an additional Web 2.0 tool that instructors and learners
can use, JofForm.Com, a Website where users can create all kinds of
forms to gather all sorts of information from a great array of templates

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available just by signing for an account for free. JofForm.Com can be a
great alley of teachers; instructors can easily create class surveys, online
quizzes, and the like, which can be quickly gathered in his/her site profile.
But this website can also be a good students’ alley when having to get
information for term or research papers as well. One of its best features is
that it can be easily embedded onto your Moodle platform so students can
get to work directly on it or the form can also be sent to their personal
email account.
If asked, how JofForm.Com could be used in class, within the Moodle
Platform, or in an online course with Blackboard or a similar LMS, to help
teacher and leaners, this can be easily answered by taking a look at the
gallery of forms of all types we can find, and how they could be used.
Depending on the study field where instructors work, lots of different kinds
of activities can be carried out. What counts here is the creativity of the
instructor to use the free tool. Take a look at the following information
which is mostly related to ELT (English Language Teaching) rather than
other fields, but that can be easily adapted to other teachers’ needs:

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JotForm
Use
JotForm
Use
To administrate short
Course Evaluation
To ask for partial or final
quizzes
Form
feedback during a course
To create professional
Student Progress
To provide timely feedback
résumés
Report
and grades to students
To practice bookings in
Restaurant
To provide feedback on
tourism industry classes
Evaluation Survey
restaurant services & food
Employee
To gather data for human
IT Service Tickets
To help IT students to deal
Information
resources courses
Instructor Evaluation
To get feedback from
Ask a question
CV Submission
Hotel Booking
with clients’ needs
Medical History
students
Event Feedback
To gather feedback after a
To help medical school Ss
get info about patients
Trivia Quiz
webinar or class event
To create some sort of
Scavenger’s Hunt
To practice placing and
CREATE YOUR OWN
Open to teachers or
responding to orders
Purchase Order
FORM
students’ needs
In my particular ELT teaching situation, JofForm.Com can be easily used
to have students gather information or practice specific language needed
for their professional field of study. Let’s take a look at two possible
teaching scenarios in English language learning with different groups of
learners.
Tourism Industry Class
Objective: After being provided different examples of hotel reservations, students will be able to follow
the correct steps to book a room with 100% of accuracy by means of an online system.
 Class will be divided into two different groups –the ones who book hotel
rooms online and the ones who respond to their partners with the
booking confirmation.
 A JofForm from the site gallery or one created by students will be used
to practice both roles of the booking process.

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 The teacher will scaffold the process to assist and have both groups
change roles and practice reserving a room and responding to their
clients.
Activity created by Prof. Jonathan AcuñA
Systems Engineering Class
Objective: After being provided different examples of IT tickets in different companies, students will be
able to deal with IT ticket with 100% of accuracy by means of an electronic form.
 Class will be divided into two different groups –the company workers
who send an IT ticket and the ones who respond and give a follow-up
to the ticket.
 A JofForm from the site gallery or one created by students will be used
to practice both roles of the IT ticket process.
 The teacher will scaffold the process to assist and have both groups
change roles and practice sending an IT ticket and responding to their
clients.
Activity created by Prof. Jonathan AcuñA
By means of both activities, which can be centralized jointly on
JofForm.Com and on the LMS, student learning can be observed,
monitored, and assessed. Following the methodological principle of
scaffolding in TBLT (Task-Based Language Teaching), student performance
can be enhanced and supervised by the instructor or even by peers. It just
takes a bit of thinking and a bit of creativity to find new ways to exploit the
use of this Web 2.0 assessment tool.

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 To fully comprehend the scope of this teaching issue, it is highly
advisable that the following topics must be expanded further:
 Student-Student interaction in online learning
 Teacher-Student interaction in VLEs
 How to embed forms within your LMS classroom
 Having students work on forms to gather information
 Assessing students in online learning environments
Professor Jonathan Acuña-Solano
ELT Trainer, Instructor & Curriculum Developer based in Costa Rica
NCTE – Costa Rica Member
Resource Teacher and Curricular Developer at CCCN
Senior ELT Professor at Universidad Latina, Costa Rica, since 1998
Contact Information:
Twitter @jonacuso
Email jonacuso@gmail.com

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Article published on Friday, December 20, 2013