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As instructors, we should avoid dominating discussions, instead guiding students to share their thoughts, analyze content, and reflect on their learning. This helps create a collaborative and community-driven learning environment.

Utilizing a ruberic is a very helpful tool that helps lay the groundwork for expectations of behavior and participation in the class, and provides specific details about the assignment(s).  The ruberic also helps the professor provide a fair grading system that makes it easy to defend in my opinion, because its all written out in the ruberic.  I also learned the term netiquette.  I had never heard it used before.  I will now use this terminology too when addressing online presence.

Once we put guidelines and expectations up for Students to follow; using a rubric to give feedback on their communication will guide the Student into a more positive effective communication for the work force. 

Communiation should be established within the course

A clearly outlined rubric is a helpful tool for the instructors and students to use with each assignment.

Developing a sense of community while setting clear guidelines for posting

I found the information about preset objectives in a rubric regarding collaboration an insightful addition to group work to encourage participation.

Discussions in an online environment has always been difficult for me.  I always have some who contribute and some that do not. I know that this builds our community and I want to build it. The suggestion on having a personal DQ post is great. It might get some students talking. I think I will also try to reward questions so students will want to respond, by using less technical more relational questions. I have a lot to learn in this area.

Using a rubric to assess students ensures consistency and transparency, creating a fair and clear evaluation process throughout the course.

The measurement of good communication among online students is a crucial aspect for evaluating the effectiveness of distance education and collaborative learning. Some strategies and tools that can be used to assess the quality of student communication in an online environment include creating rubrics that encompass criteria for effective communication, such as clarity, cohesion, respect, and active listening.

When teaching an online course it is important to create guidelines so that the content students post are on topic, moves the conversation forward, and neither too long or too short. 

The instructor should monitor discussions in an online environment. Guidelines must first be provided and then the instructor must monitor the discussion to assess the direction and content. Without this monitoring, there is a risk of minimal discussion or too much unfocused discussion.

An online instructor should become a "guide on the side." The instructor should refrain from posting immediate answers to the discussion board; refrain from stating immediately whether answers are right or wrong; avoid posting too much, too often; and facilitate the sharing of ideas and opinions.

An instructor should facilitate learning, while also building a community within the classroom. 

A Rubric should provide specific outcomes for the course, as well as guidelines for communication and expectations.

It is helpful advice to address students by their name when giving them feedback as that will make those students feel like they are seen, which in turn to them being more motivated to continue in discussions.

Hay que aprender a desarrollar procesos de enseñanzas aprendizajes donde se pueda evaluar no solo el contenido del curso, sino tambien expresar las expectativas en cuanto a la comunicación durante el curso y poder evaluar las mismas.

It is important to provide clear rubrics for how communication and collaboration are graded in an online course. 

I learned how collaborative learning correlates with individual communication in valuable ways. I was interested in how the chart directly demonstrated what collaborative projects enhanced individual communication skills.

Surely, the rubrics provide a guideline for student to know what is expected from them what will be assessed. 

Setting up a "safe" community from online discussions for students requires setting expectations for them as well as modeling what participation should look like. The instructor needs to monitor the quality and direction of discussion boards, but not stifle student input. When grading online discussions, using a rubric can help ensure fair and more consistent grading. 

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