Get Your Students Hired
In addition to reviewing course components, I was exposed to giving quizzes for the purpose of self-assessment and providing immediate clarification and/or feedback before erroneous ideas are assimilated.
GWard beacuse I had online classes previously this whole comcept made more sense when our campus did gp online. This really helped me see how one thing pays off another concept.
This section discussed the difference between chats and posted discussions, quizzes, and examinations.
This forum explains the importance of identifying course competencies within the online course. This is done by creating a course syllabus and including the course title, course code and course description. Online lectures should reflect contents that mirror the in class lecture. Incorporating discussion questions, chats, posts and quizzes.
Reply to Tricia Mehall's post:That's a very good point. The process of retaking a quiz (even with the same questions) reinforcess the retention of the information. Would you say that this process could even be more affective than the actual lesson?
Reply to Jonathan Juracko's post:That makes a lot of sense. You really don't want students to feel intimidated by complicated technology. How would you simplify it?
Best insight: create quizzes with an unlimited number of retakes to serve as ego-busters!
I agree with Ms. Rebecca, many times I would see that students would delay in answering the question of the forum because they were waiting for someone to start. Sometimes what would end up happening is that they would be the first to answer and they would forget to give feedback to two of their classmates. That would hurt their grade even though it was a fantastic answer. So what I do know is I tell them on day one to answer and that way they can get that out of the way,
You can utilize quizies to boost your student confidence as long as you provide them with plenty of opportunities to pass. However, examinations test attempts should be limited.
Having students understand the "why" to the assignment is extremely important to engage the student. By adding a preface statement places the assignment in to perspective of the course content!
When taking a quizz or an assesment it is very helpful to have more than one attempt. Having the chance to elavate your grade to a higher score allows the student to go back and reexamine the content, which will also help the student retain more information.
Providing students with greater context allows them to comprehend why they are learning as much "the what" of any particular lesson.
I plan to develop low tech lessons so students don't feel isolated when a link or some bit of software does not work in a proficient manner.
I am aware of all the bits that make up the course components and so will be more able to create them for courses I help design
A syllabus is needed for online learners and students also need to have quizzes at checkpoints to ensure they understand. They need to be able to re-assess these. Tests, however, should only have one attempt. Modeling is key during e-learning so students know the expectations.
I like the examples of the syllabus, the organization of the lessons, and the Course structure sample which I plan to use some parts. It gives me a beginning. The multiply attempts on quizzes will help the new online learner to gain some self-esteem which I will use.
One of the downsides to discussions is that a student may be delayed in completing their assignment because they are waiting on other students. Allowing student's to take quizzes several times allows them to have a better understanding of the course content.