What is the main task that your team will have to accomplish?

$($See Training Module, Part $1$ for the answer. The Training Module can be downloaded from the resource page$).$

Write a paper about the world economic crisis of the past several years

Write a paper about the cultures and traditions of their countries

Write a business proposal for a client company

The sole purpose of the project is to make friends in other countries

X$-$Culture is part of a course for most students, and their performance on the project will affect their course grade$/$mark$.$

What performance indicators will be available to the instructors to assess the performance of their students?

$($see Training Module, Part $1$ for answer$)$

The quality of the team business proposal report

Peer evaluations

Ability to meet deadlines with respect to the surveys and team report submissions

All of the above

Each business proposal will be evaluated along several dimensions.

Which of the following will NOT be among those assessment dimensions?

$($see Training Module, Part I for answer$)$

Novelty of the idea

Number of colorful diagrams in the team report

Economic feasibility of the proposal

Clarity of presentation and attention to detail

Formatting quality, grammar and writing style

In the weekly surveys, team members will be evaluating each other.

Which of the following dimensions will be included in the peer evaluations?

$($see Training Module, Part I for answer$)$

Effort and commitment

Intellectual contribution

Help with writing the report

Help with coordinating team efforts

All of the above

When you receive the names of your teammates, how do you know who is your team leader?

The Project Coordinator will appoint a team leader

There will be no formally assigned team leader. An informal leader $($or several$)$ may emerge as the team members work together, or the team may formally elect a team leader $($or several$),$ or the team may choose to work without a leader

When the students receive names of their teammates, it will say who the team leader is

Each student on the team must be a team leader for one week

The team leader will be the one who is most fluent in English

How can team members communicate with each other?

Email

Skype

WhatsApp

Facebook

The team members are allowed to use any communication tools they want, including all of the above and any other tools not listed here

The project participants will be completing weekly Progress Reports surveys.

Which of the following is true about these weekly surveys?

The Challenge Instructions file contains links to all surveys

The instructors will give their students the links to all surveys at the beginning of the project

Every week, around Wednesday, students will receive an email their personal links to each weekly survey, due Monday

All surveys will be completed using paper$-$and$-$pencil format and the students will receive the booklets with questions from their instructors

What company do you write the business proposal for?

Each team will receive an email with the name of the company for which the team must write the report

Several partner companies are listed in the Training Module file and the project participants must develop solutions to all of these challenges

The list of X$-$Culture corporate partners is on the resource page $($ http:$//$x$-$culture.org$/2024-1$b$/).$ Your team can choose any one of these companies.

This semester, all teams write reports for McDonald's. No other companies are allowed.

How will your Instructor know whether your team$$s report contains any plagiarized work $($i$.$e$.,$ copied$-$and$-$pasted text$)?$

The instructors will not know even if the students copy their entire report off the Internet

The instructors are very smart and know plagiarism once they see it

All team reports are tested for plagiarism and if plagiarism is detected, the X$-$Culture admin will inform professors whose students are on the team that submitted the report containing plagiarism.

What should you do when the email address of one of your team members doesn't work or a team member is not actively participating in the project?

Don't panic and continue working on the project with the rest of the team.

If the email is not working, inform Admin@X$-$Culture.org about the problem.

If the email address works but the team member is not responding, continue sending reminders to the person every few days.

If the team member still doesn't participate, give him or her low peer evaluations so that the project admin knows about the problem and can investigate it$,$ or exclude the non$-$participating student from the project if nothing helps, and that his$/$her professor knows about the problem and can reduce the student's grade.

Do all of the above

What is the best tool to

Doodle Dropbox Google Translate Google Docs Zoom or Skype Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger Slack, Trello

Translate text from one language to another

Jointly co$-$edit a MS Word file without creating multiple copies of the