Personalizing Your Mastering Course!

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Personalizing Your Mastering Course!
Simple Tips to Enhance Student Interest, Build
Relevance, Improve Success

• Scott Hildreth
• Astronomy Physics Chabot College Hayward, CA

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Goals for Our Session

• Why Edit? What are the Benefits?
• Ways to Customize Your Course
• Getting Started Links, Messages
• Simple Editor Links, Hints, Images
• Advanced Editor Complete Control
• Adding Your Questions!
• Your feedback questions are welcome throughout!

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Lets See an Example - 1

• Live example of my physics class from last
  spring, showing one problem enhanced with a
  YouTube videoclip

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Why Customize At All?

• Mastering already offers a great range of
  Problems, Tutorials, Quizzes, Media with
• Dynamic, context-specific hints
• Wrong Right answer feedback
• You can be successful without any extra work!
• But with some easy additions.
• You your students can have even more success
  and fun!

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Why Customize At All?

• Remind students about
• Expected Units they might miss (Radians vs.
  Degrees)
• Key Examples from Lecture or Text that will help
• Attention to Tolerances Sig Figs
• Adjust problems
• Drop parts you want to skip
• Add Hints to good End-of-Chapter Qs
• Import your own Questions Problems

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Use Mastering Data
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Why Customize At All?

• Review Most Missed Problems
• Change Hints, Problem Statements
• Add resource links, images, feedback
• Experiment Next Term
• Consider making questions/assignments as
  designated learning outcomes

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Announcement Examples

• Add contact information, and helpful instructions
  available right from the start of class with
  announcements

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Announcement Examples

• Reinforce HOW the student can use the system, and
  provide links for help

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Message Examples

• Add Messages to Assignments with instructions,
  caveats, gotchas, and encouragement

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Message Examples
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Link Examples

• Add Hyperlinks to Assignments
• Share videoclips, lecture links, and more

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Lets Try It - 1Messages Links

• Live demonstration in my physics class, adding
  messages and links

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Problem Examples

• Add Hyperlinks to Problems quickly with the
  Simple Editor

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Lets Try It - 2Simple Editor Links

• Live demonstration in my physics class, adding a
  link to a problem

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Hint Examples

• Add Hints to Problems w/ Simple Editor

Declarative Hints nudge students
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Hint Examples
Socratic Hints ask for students to answer
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Lets Try It - 3Simple Editor Hints/Parts

• Live demonstration in my physics class, adding a
  hint to a problem

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Image Example

• Add your own diagrams parts to problems

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Editing is NOT hard!

• Simple Editor always available anywhere you log
  in

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Advanced Editor

• Complete control of everything, including
• Variable values Tolerances
• Feedback for all questions
• Adding images
• Menu-based XML interface
• More specific system reqs to use
• Windows or Windows emulator
• Visit online help for information

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Advanced Editor

• Easy to extend variable domains and steps

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Advanced Editor

• Easy to enhance wrong answer feedback

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Importing Questions

• Easy to import multiple choice/essay questions
  into Mastering
• Follow standard format
• Create/Save As RTF
• Import into Item Library
• Instantly start to collect statistics!

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Sample Import File
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Lets Try It 4Importing Questions

• Illustrating how to import a simple set of
  questions into Mastering.

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Getting Started!
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Additional Ideas

• Be patient, explore, experiment!
• Have students suggest YouTube clips they like
  specific to an assignment or problem
• Give Extra Credit for the one(s) students found
  most helpful

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Questions? Discussion?

• Check out a resource list research
• http//www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/mas
  tering
• Login to my classes to look around
• Email me with questions!
• shildreth_at_chabotcollege.edu

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Cartoons.

• Images reprinted in the online presentation and
  available online were borrowed with permission
  from "e-mail.this.book", The Cartoon Bank, Alfred
  A. Knopf, NY, 1996.