What is the Community

The Community in Simulise offers a timeline similar to what you often see on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn. In the timeline, users can post status updates and share portfolio items.

The timeline also displays portfolio items that classmates have chosen to share with the Community. You can respond to and like all items in the Community. Comments made on items are also stored with the portfolio item itself.

The participants in a Community are determined by the school. This can include students from a specific group and their corresponding teachers.

Why get started with the Community?

The Community gives working with a portfolio an informal character, where students can easily provide each other with feedback.

Motivation: Working with a social media-like structure is appealing to students.
Informal feedback / formative work: the community can contribute to formative work with students. Students can provide each other with feedback on, for example, (intermediate) products. Peer feedback is useful for both the receiver and the giver.
Sharing experiences: are you going on an internship, working week or are you doing a workshop? Share what has been learned in the community and students can learn from each other's experiences.
Collaborative learning: students can help each other to improve products. They can also start their own community as a working group.

Practical Examples from the Community

Example 1 - In the context of an internship or exchange abroad, students write a blog about what they experience and what is typical for that country. They share their blog on the Community. Students were then instructed to provide the blogs with feedback on a number of points. As a teacher you can clearly see how active everyone is in the community, what the contributions are from students and you can assess their quality.

Example 2 - students are doing a country project for which a travel brochure has to be made. The students are divided into different groups, each with its own country. The (work) groups can easily start their own group community in Simulise. The final product "the folder" is shared with the class in Simulise and other classmates can give feedback on why they would or would not like to go on holiday to this country.