For the next two Wednesdays, we will include at this location a “Goal Post.” This little series is intended to provide suggestions and encourage conversation about how to start your semester smoothly.
Our first topic is about familiarizing students with your course policies and procedures.
In this arena, we observed some noteworthy practices in your summer courses; a few of them are included below under “Possible Solutions.”
Goal: Students, as they "warm up" for the course, need to read and understand the syllabus.
Question: How do we coach our students on the significance of the syllabus?
Possible solutions:
*A syllabus quiz
*A syllabus or “scavenger hunt” assignment to be submitted to the dropbox
*A short video or audio file reinforcing key points of the syllabus
*A series of syllabus or course policy questions in the Student Introduction Discussion
*A special discussion topic to verify that students have done the introductory housekeeping. This topic could require students to post that they have indeed read the D2L Quick Start Guide, participated in the Introduction Discussion, and sent you a test e-mail or test dropbox assignment. The topic may also be a place for you to highlight certain critical course policies or course tools.
What do you think? We welcome your ideas and encourage you to contribute to our related discussion in the CCCOnline Community.
Quality Time is a series of posts concerning course quality issues, best practices, and/or CCCOnline policy.
Goal: Students, as they "warm up" for the course, need to read and understand the syllabus.
Question: How do we coach our students on the significance of the syllabus?
Possible solutions:
*A syllabus quiz
*A syllabus or “scavenger hunt” assignment to be submitted to the dropbox
*A short video or audio file reinforcing key points of the syllabus
*A series of syllabus or course policy questions in the Student Introduction Discussion
*A special discussion topic to verify that students have done the introductory housekeeping. This topic could require students to post that they have indeed read the D2L Quick Start Guide, participated in the Introduction Discussion, and sent you a test e-mail or test dropbox assignment. The topic may also be a place for you to highlight certain critical course policies or course tools.
What do you think? We welcome your ideas and encourage you to contribute to our related discussion in the CCCOnline Community.
Quality Time is a series of posts concerning course quality issues, best practices, and/or CCCOnline policy.
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