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Date: | Mon, 24 Oct 1994 13:25:34 EDT |
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Hello people;
A professor here at Temple is running 3 Listserv lists for his students to
discuss his courses. One of the things this prof would like to do is at the
end of the semester, allow his students to send mail to the Listserv groups
or to him individually to evaluate his teaching performance in the courses
and his experiment of using E-mail and Listserv as a pedogical tool.
In order for this evaluation process to yield the most honest responses from
the students, this prof would like to have the postings come either to his
Listserv lists or to him anonymously so that none of the students need be
afraid of tainting their grades by providing the prof with a poor course
evaluation.
My first reaction to him was to use one of the anonymous posting services,
but this prof would prefer not to go that route if possible. The reason is
that he is concerned that if they can post anonymously to his list and any
other discussion forum, they might abuse the ability. What he wants to do is
to have an account on this system that the students can use for a short time
just to do these evaluations. I am not too keen on that idea since VM
accounts cannot be used by multiple people simultaneously as far as I know.
Does anyone know how we can accomplish this kind of functionality with
minimum setup effort from a VM/ESA system?
I am also crossposting this to lstown-l in case anyone who subscribes there
has an idea on how this can be done just using Listserv. For example, is
there a way that the professor can reconfigure his three Listserv lists so
that no record is kept of who sends mail to those lists? If this is
possible, we could always set up those lists to allow this anonymity at the
end of the course when the instructor's ready to accept the students'
evaluations. Prior to the evaluation period, the instructor needs to keep
the senders' names and E-mail addresses visible because the students get
graded on what they write to the groups.
Stan Horwitz Internet: [log in to unmask] Bitnet: STAN@TEMPLEVM
Temple University -- Senior Consultant (My views are all mine!)
Manager of the Help-Net and Suggest lists and Listserv Postmaster.
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