Enhanced Content with Mastering Tips to Encourage Student Success

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Enhanced Content with Mastering Tips to
Encourage Student Success

• Scott Hildreth - Chabot College

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Todays students.
Wireless hot spot? Wireless hot spot??
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Todays students.
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Our Students

• Online, Mobile, Social, Hyper (linked)
• Visual, Video-friendly
• Willing to learn, but.
• Less time for homework?
• Less patience for questions?
• Less comprehension for reading?

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An Aha moment
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Using Results
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Mastering Captures Data
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Adding Content

• General
• Customized HomePage
• Announcements (coming)
• Assignment/Problem Specific
• Informational messages Notes
• Simple Edits
• Advanced Edits

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Enhancements are NOT hard
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Adding Content

• Informational Messages
• Assignment Instructions
• Caveats Reminders
• Simple Edits
• Additional text
• Hyperlinks to YouTube, Audio, Background
• Advanced Edits
• Additional Hints, Parts, Solutions etc.

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Annotating Assignments
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Annotating Assignments
Example of redirecting students to key concepts
and techniques
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Annotating Assignments

• Add Message in Organize Content Window
• Select Item, then Add Message Above

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Annotating Assignments

• Add hypertext with html coding
• Direct to preparatory or remedial help
  BEFORE/After a problem

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Editing Problems

• Start with a COPY of the problem
• Simple Editor no coding needed
• Easy to add hyperlinks (no HTML)
• Easy to add parts
• Advanced Editor XML coding templates
• Add hints
• Add wrong-answer feedback

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Simple Edits Adding Hyperlinks
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Advanced Editor

• Adding parts
• Adding Hints
• Enhancing Feedback
• Correcting Algorithm Errors

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Enhancing Wrong-Answer Feedback
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Advanced Editor

• Adding explanations for existing wrong answers

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Summary

• Enhancing Content is totally optional
• Great for Student Learning Outcome cycle
• See what they missed
• Add hints, redirection, feedback
• Re-assign as preparatory material for exams
• Use in subsequent terms
• See if students do better

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Experimenting on our students!
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Questions?

• Help for Editors is a click away
• Email me! shildreth_at_chabotcollege.edu