Group Contract – Business Communication Complete the tables below and answer any questions in bullet point. Group Name/Number What group were you assigned to in Moodle? Group Members & Contributions List group members and contact details. Coordinating the group is real work - chairing and scheduling meetings, writing agendas, etc. As is revising, editing, designing. Recognize this and account for it in how you breakdown the workload. Assign each group member a role per the Class 2 article, titled This is the secret to doing more productive group work. To determine your roles, discuss your skills and how you will apply them. Each group member must initial here to acknowledge agreement to the group contract, once complete. First & Last Name Role Email address (required) Phone Number (optional) Initial Decider Editor Scribe Scheduler Note: “Presenter” is not an appropriate role, as all members must present a minimum of 2 minutes each for each presentation. Group Norms Objectives What grade is your group targeting? What rules can we agree on to help us meet our objectives? What do we expect of one another regarding attendance at meetings, participation, behaviour, quality of work, etc.? What are our strategies to ensure cooperation and equal distribution of tasks and encouraging/including ideas from all team members? Teamwork How will you make decisions? Majority rules, consensus, etc. How will you resolve conflict? How frequently will you meet? How frequently will you communicate? (How often will meetings be held? How frequently are we expected to check and respond to email, WhatsApp, and other forms of asynchronous communication?) What tools will you use to collaborate? Some examples include Google Docs, Zoom, WhatsApp. (Note: Make sure that you capture deadlines, deliverables, etc. and your agreement to such in the Moodle forum. You'll have zero recourse if you do so off-platform.) Consequences (also see Course Rules & Regulations) What do we consider an infraction to be (not attending meetings, not responding to emails, missing deadlines, disruptive behavior, poor quality of work, etc.)? How will we address infractions/non-performance? Availability Capture the availability of your entire team. If this information changes, please update your availability and share it with your group. Add a note for any other issues that will affect your availability. Time (EST) 9am-10am 10am-11am 11am-12pm 12pm-1pm 1pm-2pm 2pm-3pm 3pm-4pm 4pm-5pm 5pm-6pm 6pm-7pm 7pm-8pm 8pm-9pm Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Availability notes: TBD Workback Schedule Planning - breaking down your work into component parts and assigning deadlines and owners (a workback schedule, for example) - has real value and always pays off. A workback schedule will show how all the pieces of your plan fit together and keep your team on the same page. A clear workback schedule maps out all the tasks that are required to finish a project, as well as assigns a person and due date to each task. Task Description Days to Start Date complete End Date Task Owner Resources Notes Go to Course Topics>Time Management Tools for more resources. Academic Integrity Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is the submission of not only another person’s ideas or written work, but also data, research, audio, video, and images, without proper acknowledgement. Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty and will not be tolerated. As part of this agreement, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to: Ensure you understand the instructor's requirements for assignments Understand all components of your assignment and put them in your own words. Use citations for all ideas from other sources. Use quotation marks for direct quotes. Limit the ideas and content of others to no more than 20% of your assignments. Be individually responsible for the academic integrity of all components of group work. (Issues of academic integrity may result in a grade of 0 or much more significant penalties.) As part of this agreement, you acknowledge that you will not: Copy from the textbook. Paraphrase the work of others by changing the wording. Submit a paper written for another class or by another person. Allow your work to be used by others. Submit a paper from an essay service or agency. Plagiarism is a serious issue. Teachers must be able to accurately evaluate your work to help you learn.
