Teaching and Learning
Prompt feedback encourages students to stay engaged in the learning process. Reducing the time between thinking of questions or seeing solutions presented in class, the time to remember where the learning left off is greatly reduced.
Discussion Subscriptions
Many discussion forums have a subscription feature. If someone posts to a discussion that you subscribe to, you automatically are sent an email with some or all of the information in the new posts. There are several variations and options that usually accompany the subscriptions feature – daily digest, summary or full text of posts, subscribe to all topics within a forum, or just replys to something you posted.
You can change the general forum subscription settings in your profile. Check the options in the post form when you post – you have some additional control over the “subscribe” function there.
Everyone seems to have personal preferences about the “best” subscription setting. Try different configurations and options. See what works for you and your course needs.
Instructor comments
Students like to know why they got points, as well as how they missed them. Instructor notes along with the assignment grade are accommodated as part of the regular point-assignment grading mechanism.
There are a number of features within the assignment grading to streamline grading student work. Separate windows, automatically displaying the next student’s assignment, sorting submissions by time submitted, are just a few of the tools to assist instructors and reduce the time and key strokes required to manage student work.
Students are sent notification when instructor comments are added to the assignment. It looks like this.
- 07M_0202 -> Assignments -> Games in Education
- Valerie Taylor has posted some feedback on your assignment submission for ‘Games in Education’
- You can see it appended to your assignment submission:
Assignment markup
For some assignments, it may be appropriate to annotate directly on the student’s assignment submission. There is an option to permit this which must be enabled, if you wish to use the tool. Usually, the instructor can add notes as a separate item (much like posting in a discussion). Only the student and the instructor can view these. With the markup option enabled, the instructor can actually edit the student submission.
Learn more…
- 4. Prompt Feedback (assessment)
http://www.tltgroup.org/seven/4_Feedback.htm
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