Spectrum of Approaches:

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Spectrum of Approaches

• Completely online no classroom sessions
• Virtual classroom sessions with teacher live
• One required classroom session/week, plus a
  required number of self-scheduled lab sessions
  (U of Alabama model)
• Daily classroom sessions, divided between lecture
  and online work (UW-Stout model)
• Traditional daily classroom sessions with lecture
  and paper-pencil work all online work done
  outside of class

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Typical Class Session on a Lecture or Review Day
in the UW-Stout Model

• Q A on homework/practice quiz due that day
• Lecture on new section or quiz/test review
• Start online assignment (homework or practice
  quiz) in class, with teacher and tutor
  circulating to provide help

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Homework, Tests and Quizzes

• We allow homework to be done anywhere,
  unproctered. Students can and do sometimes work
  together on these assignments, but each student
  gets a unique set of questions, so wholesale
  copying is generally not a problem.
• We require quizzes and tests to be taken in a
  proctored setting, either in the classroom on
  scheduled test/quiz days or in the tutor lab or
  director/coordinators office area for early
  takers or makeups.

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Quiz Days in the Classroom

• 5-10 minutes for QA on practice quiz questions
• Hand out worksheets and give out the password
• 30-40 minutes allowed for taking the quiz,
  depending on length and content
• Students must turn in worksheets when finished
  (Have them write their score in designated area
  at top of sheet see sample on next page and in
  notebook, 3A_1.)
• No lecture on new section before/after quiz
• Students can see their score after submitting,
  but cant review questions/answers till after all
  sections have taken the quiz. (We set a common
  expiration time at the end of the last class
  session for the day, and we set the review option
  to after deadline has expired.)

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Sample Quiz Worksheet (Included in your workshop
notebook 3A_1 and on workshop website and
CD-ROM.)
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Test Days

• Warn students to be on time or a few minutes
  early, so they can be booted up, logged in, and
  ready to go at scheduled start time of class
  period.
• Distribute worksheets to desks before class
  starts.
• Give password at start of class period.
• Again, students can see their score after
  submitting, but cant review questions/answers
  till after all sections have taken the test.
• Collect worksheets as students leave.

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Lectures

• Trade-off Consistency between instructors vs.
  flexibility for personal teaching styles.
• At minimum, try for
• Consistent content
• Outline of key points
• List of sample problems to cover
• Relatively consistent length, allowing some time
  for starting online homework on most days.

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Lecture Formats

• Slides (Basic PowerPoint slide sets are available
  online in the Instructor Resources area of your
  Control Panel)
• Blackboard/Whiteboard
• Sample problem web page (To be covered by Bruce
  Johnston in Session 4D at 200 on Thursday)
• Combination of methods

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Downloading the Online PowerPoint Slides for Your
Textbook
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Instructor Resources (continued)
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Attendance

• Why give attendance points?
• What percentage of the grade should attendance
  represent?
• What should be the criterion for giving them?
• Some possible options
• For being present
• For participating
• Combination of these approaches

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Attendance/Participation Points

• Recording Methods
• Calling roll
• Seating chart
• Pass around a sign-in sheet
• Use an online check-in (e.g. a 1-problem
  assignment)
• Use an offline assignment (paper quiz/homework
  problem)
• Suggestions for entering these in Gradebook
• Set up offline items in Other category
• Enter once weekly

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Tip for entering attendance points (or any
offline item in other category) Enter via
Homework/Test Manager instead of through
Gradebook.
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Attendance Record Template (Copy included in
workshop notebook 3A_2, workshop website and
CD.)
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In-class Time for Working on Assignments

• Encourage use of live help (teacher or tutor)
  vs. over-reliance on online help, especially
  view an example feature (New feature reminder
  In the upcoming MML upgrade, you will be able to
  selectively turn off online help aids in homework
  assignments)
• Encourage discussion among students while working
  on homework
• We allow students to leave class early only if
  they show us the 100 score on their computer
  screen

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Next Up

• 1000 1215
• Course Customization III
• (in small groups with your staff liaison)
• 1215 130
• Lunch Break
• (Thanks again to the Pearson folks
• for treating us to Teds pizza...)