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Producing together, remotely
Explaining to someone, holding a shared deadline, assembling parts written by others: group work trains exactly what an individual exercise leaves aside. These moves are practised from the very first year onwards.
How a group comes together
- 01
Composition announced
Three to five people from the same cohort, brought together for one module and for that module's duration.
- 02
First shared slot
The group sets its working hours around everyone's real availability, time zone and job included.
- 03
Roles allocated
Each person takes a named role for the duration of the work. Roles rotate from one module to the next.
- 04
Assembly checkpoint
Midway, the parts are put end to end. That is when you discover what is missing, while there is still time.
The roles, and what each one holds
Roles rotate: over a long programme, everyone passes through all four. That is what makes collective work formative rather than comfortable — you learn the role you hold, not the one you watch.
| Role | What it holds | What it delivers |
|---|---|---|
| Coordination | The shared calendar and checkpoints | A record of decisions after each checkpoint |
| Production | The technical part assigned | One part delivered in the required format |
| Review | Consistency between the parts | A list of gaps, with the proposed fix |
| Presentation | The final delivery to the marker | An assembled document and a short defence |
What the collective produces
An assembled deliverable
A document, a system or a study that none of the members could have carried alone in the time available.
A record of decisions
What was settled, when and by whom. This is the piece that makes collective work legible to the marker.
A short defence
Each person presents the part they held and answers on it. That is where the individual share shows.
The individual share stays identified
Assessment of group work covers two distinct objects: the joint deliverable and what each person contributed. The record of decisions, the delivered part and the short defence give the marker the three elements needed to recognise each contribution. That is what allows collective work to count within a certifying programme.
- Each delivered part carries the name of the person who produced it
- The record of decisions timestamps the group's trade-offs
- The short defence is held part by part
- The marker's feedback names the contributions, one by one
Explore next
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- Peer communityThe IHETC learner community: per-course forums, per-module threads and open study groups. How to ask a useful question, what makes a thread profitable and how it works with the tutor.
- In-person gatheringsIHETC in-person gatherings: purpose, calendar announcement at the start of the year, practical organisation and how they fit with remote study. What a collective on-site session makes possible.
- Class representativesIHETC cohort representatives: election, mandate, escalation channel to the academic lead and response timeframes. What a collective obtains this way rather than request by request.
- Course guidanceIHETC course guidance: start from the target role, compare real durations and taught volumes, then identify the matching professional title and programme. The appointment, the method and the reference figures.
- First weekWelcoming new IHETC learners: the first seven days' programme, access opened as soon as enrolment is confirmed, getting to grips with the workspace and first contact with the tutor and cohort.