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Hey everyone, Alison here from the P2PU Help Desk.
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This is a quick and bare bones tutorial on how to use the task feature in P2PU study groups.
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Tasks are the central feature of all study groups on the platform,
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and constructing a good one is crucial to the peer learning process.
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Creating a task is really creating a page that can function like a blog, wiki or forum.
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But we call it a task because that reiterates our belief that learning is about doing and doing things together.
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Let's take a quick look through the feature and how it works.
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All tasks created in a study group are listed in the left hand column.
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and you can move each one up and down according to the priorities of the group.
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Creating a new task is essentially creating a page.
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and it can work very much like a blog post, a forum, or a wiki.
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To keep wiki functionality, make sure to keep the "Collaborative Work" box checked,
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this means that all participants can edit the body of the page.
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Let's also take a quick glance through some excellent examples of the task feature being used in other study groups.
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In "Introduction to Contributing to Lernanta"
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(this is where our group of volunteer developers work to hack the site and make it better),
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have used the task feature in some really interesting ways.
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For example, the group has created a task about how to fix a bug,
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and the participants are discussing the best ways in which they can actually contribute to the project.
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In another course, "Introduction to the Field of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning"
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the group has an excellent list of tasks.
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The first being probably the most important which is "How to Complete the Course".
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This is a great feature and really, really necessary information for the participants.
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They've also used the task feature to create pages on "How to Participate in the Course", "How to Communicate"
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keeping everyone informed of what everyone else is thinking,
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and then also breaking down the learning syllabus into weeks.
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A third great example is the Blogging and Writing For The Web study group.
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They also use their task feature to keep everyone organised:
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get everyone's blog posts, make some introductions
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and break down the actual work that everyone needs to do into specific topics.
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The most important thing to know about the task feature is that it's open ended
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and you can be creative with it.
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Bring any questions or comments you have about the task feature to
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http://qa.p2pu.org
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or the P2PU Help Desk, for a more in-depth discussion.
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and remember, there are plenty of people here that are willing and wanting to help.
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So don't be scared.
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http://p2pu.org/en/groups/p2pu-help-desk/
