Using FigShare and Mendeley for latest HW assignment in course I'm teaching. Both are nice methods for providing students with resources for the assignment (fitting DNA unzipping data to polymer models). - http://www.science3point0.com/s30wiki...
Any plan for Mendeley to allow adding data sets and / or figures? I.e., things citable with handles that don't have PDFs... - Steve Koch
Here's a question for you: since one person has already completed the assignment and provided a link, are you concerned about people copying? If it's not for assessment they're only cheating themselves, of course, but different teachers have different approaches to that issue. - Bill Hooker
It's a really small class, and they all know that I'm most concerned about them getting experience and learning. They know that I expect them to look at each other's work if they want to, just that they should give credit when credit is due. In the other class (Junior Lab), that worked very well. In this class, I've been struggling just to keep up with the content (new class for me) and haven't been stressing citations enough. But I can easily tell whether a student did any exploration on their own when they did the assignment, and they know that's what I'm looking for. To be less long-winded, as you pointed out, I don't care at all about catching someone "cheating," unless it's sort of an accident. If they want to cheat themselves, then I stop caring about them. - Steve Koch
Steve - you can already attach all sorts of supplementary info such as presentations, spreadsheets, and images to items, but you'd need to make the entry manually if you wanted to cite it separately. - Mr. Gunn