Four years ago, I switched from industry to education. I have been a surgical technologist for the last fourteen years. Initially students were assigned a pre-operative report, set-up schematic, and post-operative report and all reports were due for each assigned procedure. In 2015 we switched from hand written reports to google drive because we could grade the assignments anywhere and did not have to carry around the papers. This allowed to students to get feedback quicker which increased their chance for success.
The first class to use drive only had seven students, but they were all millennials and caught on quickly. Our 2016-2017 cohort did not do as well, which caused a lot of missed assignments and lower scores for the students. We added an extra information session on submitting the assignments but again this designed failed that group of students. For the second semester, we decided to redesign the drive accounts. The students were placed in groups of three and each group had at least one computer savvy student. All students are still required to upload a schematic and pre-operative report. The post operative report is a shared report and each student has to update it after they have completed that procedure. The only initial issue was students were not citing their sources properly but the design has been successful up to this point. In the future it may have to be designed again but that goes with knowing your audience.
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