Before looking at Scrumy you may wish to...

• ...Think about a Manager's Role (Note: This role applies to all Managers e.g. it could be Learners Managing their 'learning' using tools like scrumy)
  Take a look at my first attempt at using Go!Animate, another free Tool-4-All, at http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0RdKS4KobOrI/1. You may want to watch it a second time using the pause to consider the five kinds of tasks which are generic to all management.

Managing Learning: - As shown in the animation, Learners also have to deal with the 5 kinds of tasks generic to all management and this becomes even more important when their learning involves collaborative tasks/projects etc.

Scrumy is very much a tool to help with the Planning Element of Management; take a look at another Go!Animate at http://goanimate.com/go/movie/0x3xfE3NObFk/1.

Learners can/could, by using Scrumy, provide (e)Portfolio evidence of both Planning and Management; Scrumy provides a means of Recording And Reporting Progress and Achievement (RARPA)

Learners can be encouraged to...

• 'Set up Stories' (For many learners these may be Specific criteria they have to address)- if collaborative then assignment of tasks comes into play (The assignment field can be used for anything users want. Many users use it for their names. Others use it to indicate the importance of tasks. For my projects I do a little bit of both. Feel free to get creative. In practice all it does is assign a color to the task and adds names etc to the resulting drop-down.)
• 'Identify tasks for completion', for each story - as above assignments can be used to indicate importance or collaborative team member names.
  • tasks must meet 3 criteria
    • Necessary
    • Realistic
    • Agreed
  • tasks must have three components
    • Result
    • Deadline
    • Limits
• 'Update and Communicate progress' using features of Scrumy.

Note: Learners should be encouraged to 'invite' Assessors to view their Scrumy(s)

Introductory Screen capture (produced by using CamStudio, another free Tool-4-All)

Use the embedded windows player to view the 'tutorial' or download/open the video by clicking here.