Tutor follow-up of a distance collective activity

This work presents the tutor´s difficulties when he follows a distance collective activity, in particular, those related to the perception of the individual work in a collective activity. We present our model of follow-up of a distance collective activity: we have divided this follow-up into the individual follow-up of the learners, and the follow-up of the collective activity. Then, from the characteristics of collective activities in the literature, we propose solutions to facilitate the tutor´s perception of the collective activities, and we propose a model of organization of a collective activity: it is based on an organization in stages, subsidiary-stages and phases (individual and collective phases). The model of follow-up and the model of distance collective activity are linked through productions and discussions resulting from individual and collective work. From those models, we have implemented a learning environment which supports a collective activity in the learning field of French as a foreign language, and an environment of follow-up of this activity. We have tested these two environments.