Melissa Caperton

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National Seminars has a free SELF assessment that I love to use with my teams. I've shared it with my students as well to help them understand their personalities and they love it. It's a fun and easy way to examine what makes us each 'tick' and 'tick-off'. Try it out with your family -- it's quite eye-opening.

http://www.nationalseminarstraining.com/selfquiz/

Melissa Caperton

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Online students and time management problems…

The single parent issue comes up often with my students. For those with school-age kids, I encourage them to make homework time a family 'competition' or 'game'. They can egg each other on to do better, being an example for the kids and get study time in at the same time. This method has worked for many of my students and they love the added benefit of teaching their children good study habits by example.

Melissa Caperton

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Missing the point

Thanks for the suggestions. I am not allowed to reduce the grade if they don't come back. That's what makes this so hard. I like the idea of contacting the student outside of the discussion to see about generating interest that way. Melissa

Melissa Caperton

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Missing the point

Unfortunately I can't reduce the grade if they fail to respond as long as they met the required number of responses. I encourage them to come back and I try to entice them back. Melissa

Melissa Caperton

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Missing the point

I have found that there is at least one student in every class (and often more than one) who will post all 3 of their required posts within a 10 minute time slot. This defeats the purpose of a 'discussion'. I've dubbed them the 'post and run' students. Since the school doesn't allow me to implement a rule of spreading the posts out, how do you encourage the students to return and read the replies?