Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Reverse Logistics Processes
Code: 242008

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Step 2 Understand the basics of return
logistics
1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 120 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Tuesday, October
September 6, 2021 5, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:
Understand the basic concepts of return logistics, through its identification in a real
environment.
The activity consists of:

This course is offered in English and as it is specified in the Rules and conditions for
course development: Contributions in different languages won´t be taken into
account”.

Individual
The student must develop the following activities:

1. Each student reads and reviews all the references for Unit 1 at the Learning
environment.

2. According to the understanding of the references and your own research on internet,
each student of the group chooses one of the following type of common waste and
must inform in the discussion forum for Step 2 in the learning environment their
chose, in the following way:

Student´s name Waste

Plastic
food/organic
Fabric
Paper

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Student chosen to submit the Student´s name
final document to the
Evaluation
Environment:

Students must respect the other students´ selection, it means for

example, if one student selects Plastic, none of the other four students can
develop the activity based on Plastic, they must choose another topic. In case a second
student presents the development related to plastic, it won´t be evaluated.

3. According to the waste chosen previously, the review of Unit 1 references and your
own search on internet, each student must hand draw a cause-effect diagram about
the use of that waste in the industry. The hand draw cause-effect diagram must include
the student name, group number and course name.

4. Once the hand draw cause-effect diagram is done, take a picture and post it in
the discussion forum for Step 2 in the learning environment.

Collaborative

The group must develop the following activities:

5. Each student proposes a real chain warehouse to investigate the reverse logistics
processes in it.

6. The collaborative working group chooses one of the real chain warehouse proposed
in activity 5, to investigate how is carried out the reverse logistics. You must post
your choose in the discussion forum in the next way:
Student´s name Chain warehouse proposed Votes

Chain warehouse selected by the

group

7. Once the chain warehouse is selected, each student make a Power point presentation
with the main aspects investigated in the chain warehouse about how they carry out

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the reverse logistics process and how they manage those processes from the social
responsibility. The Power Point presentation must include the Cover (Student name,
date, unit name, tutor name).

8. Each student records a 2 minutes video, where they appears using their
camera, showing the PowerPoint presentation, introducing themselves, showing how
is carried out the reverse logistics in the chain warehouse selected and how they
manage those processes from the social responsibility.

The suggested tools to make the video are Screencast, Loom, Icecream Screen
Recorder.
Save the video in YouTube or any other resource to get a public link and share
it in the Discussion Forum.

9. All students in the group read and review the activities developed by the
other members, consolidate all evidences in a PDF document and the student selected
in Activity 2, submits it at the Evaluation Environment, according to the
guidelines given below in section Collaborative Work Evidences, naming it with
the following structure:

RLP_Step 2_Group number

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

Review the agenda to identify the deadline, visit the General Forum and visit the
Synchronous attention by SkypePage to identify the tutor user.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

Review the syllabus of the course, the guide to solve the activity, and post activities
in the discussion forum.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Submit the final document as a PDF with the structure indicated in this guide.

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Evidences of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Each student posts on the Discussion forum a picture of their hand made cause-effect
diagram according to Activity 3 and a video link related to Activity 8.

Evidences of collaborative work:

The collaborative evidence to be submitted is:

Each group submits a PDF document including:

• Cover
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• Objectives
• Common waste and Work Responsibilities Chart - one per group (Activity 2)
• Hand draw cause-effect diagram – one per student (Activity 3)
• Chain warehouse selection chart - one per group (Activity 6)
• Video link – one per student (Activity 8)
• Conclusions
• References (Use APA guidelines)
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From guidelines:
• PDF format
• Page Size: Letter
• Font type: Times New Roman
• Font size: 12
• Line spacing: Double
• Page margins: 2.54 cm
• Paragraph Alignment: Left-aligned

3. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Collaborative evidences, consider the following:

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.

• All contents included in the work and forum must be in English

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• In each group, a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product
in the environment indicated by the teacher.

• Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

• Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and
paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

4. Evaluation Rubric Template

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Type of activity: Collaborative
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 120 points
First evaluation High level: The student recognizes the process of common
criterion: wastes in reverse logistics, consolidating his findings in a clear
hand draw cause-effect diagram according to the selected waste,
Recognize the following all guidelines, even including name and date.
process of a
common waste If your work is at this level, you can get between 25 points
and 30 points

Average level: The student recognizes just part of the process

This criterion of common wastes in reverse logistics, consolidating his findings
represents 30 in a clear hand draw cause-effect diagram according to the
points of the total selected waste, following just part of the
of 120 points of guidelines, or including some mistaken information that
the activity. evidences no clear understanding of the
contents studied.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points

and 24 points

Low level: The student does not recognizes the process of

common wastes in reverse logistics, or the cause-effect diagram
is not related to the selected waste.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 1 points
Second evaluation High level: The student evidences their understanding of the
criterion: reverse lositics processes in a real environment,
recording a video presenting themselves and a PowerPoint
Identify the reverse presentation that includes all the information about the reverse
logistics processes logistics processes in the chain warehouse selected and the way
and the social they manage those processes from the social responsibility,
responsability in a according to the concepts studied in this unit.
real environment

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This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 65 points
represents 70 and 70 points
points of the total
of 120 points of Average level: The student evidences their understanding of
the activity. the reverse lositics processes in a real environment,
recording a video presenting themselves and a PowerPoint
presentation that includes the information about the reverse
logistics processes in the chain warehouse selected and the way
they manage those processes from the social responsibility, but
it is missing some guidelines or it includes some mistaken
information that evidences no clear understanding of the
contents studied.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points

and 64 points

Low level: The student does not record a video evidencing the
recognition of the reverse logistics processes in a real
environment.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 1
points and 0 points
Third evaluation High level: The student submits at the Evaluation
criterion: Environment, a PDF document according to the given guidelines,
evidencing proper grammar and spelling, presenting a proper
Present the development of the activities proposed.
document according
to the specified If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
format and and 20 points
guidelines
Average level: The student submits a document, developing
part of the proposed activities, evidencing some spelling and
grammar mistakes or missing some guidelines.
This criterion
represents 20 If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
points of the total and 14 points
of 120 points of
the activity. Low level: The student does not submit the document
evidencing his own development of the proposed activities.

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If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 points

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