Category: Assessment & Interaction

Fostering a sense of community in an online course is one of the most important steps to a successful experience. This post presents different ways to promote the development of the class community through student introductions.

Integrity is a foundation of teaching and learning, incorporating core values of trust, responsibility, and fairness. Promoting academic integrity includes taking steps to reduce opportunities and motivating factors for students to cheat on assignments and assessments. Major factors that students say make them more likely to cheat include:

Module objectives articulate what students should be able to do upon completion of the module. This post describes the importance of aligning those objectives with the activities in which the students are participating.

Module objectives communicate what students should be able to do upon completion of the module. This post explains the importance of module objectives and provides guidance on how they should be written.

There are a variety of ways that students can demonstrate their learning in an online course. This post describes the different ways and provides suggestions for how to structure them.

Teaching presence is the manner in which you, as the instructor, design learning experiences, facilitate those experiences, and contribute expert knowledge when needed. This post showcases strategies that promote your teaching presence and supports meaningful interaction between you and your students.

Assessments promote higher-order thinking skills (e.g., apply, analyze, compare and
contrast, classify, assess, create, evaluate)

Quality Review Showcase The Quality and High Quality online course reviews explore components proven to be best practices in online course design. This post showcases Quality item, “The course offers opportunities for students to actively engage with other students to enhance learning (e.g., discussions, group work).” Online learners sometimes feel disconnected in online classes, especially …

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Describing how your online activities will be graded helps students stay focused on the task and self-assess their progress. This post describes how to construct a rubric and features real examples from UCF faculty.