Printable Assignment Instructions Online Faculty Training and Certification Program The below assignments should be completed as they are encountered within the Learning Modules found in the Blackboard course. They are not meant to be completed back-to-back in the order they are listed below. For submitting these assignments, helpful tutorial links, and access to grades and feedback please login to Blackboard. Module 1 Assignment 1. Check that your email address is correct for your Blackboard account. If it's not correct, then please update it. 2. Change your Password (it is not secure to keep using the default password!) 3. Change your Profile Picture if you haven't already. Please choose an image (of yourself, preferably) to be displayed with your profile. It will be visible to others on the system. 4. Once you have finished, navigate back to this Module 1 Assignment. 5. Then, in the Type Submission field below, please answer the following question using a couple of sentences: As you'll see in this training course, there are several ways to share a photo and introduce yourself to your online students. Why do you think using photos and starting with an icebreaker forum are important in an online class? Once you have typed out your submission text, click the Submit button. You don't need to attach anything with the Browse My Computer button, and you don't need to write anything in the Comments field (unless of course you want to). Thank you! Module 2 Assignment Instructions: In this assignment, you will explore the Distance Education Guidelines and focus on the quality requirement of regular, effective communication. In the Type Submission space below (in Blackboard), please reflect upon your online teaching practices (whether you are new to online teaching or have been teaching online for a while) and answer these two questions. On p. 10 of the Distance Education Guidelines: (section 55204 - Instructor Contact. See page 6 of the document itself, page 10 of the PDF file.) 1. What do you think is meant by "regular, effective, instructor-initiated communication between instructor and students?" (10 points) 2. Why do you think that interaction between instructor/students and among students in an online course is of concern to accrediting agencies such WASC? (10 points) Module 3 Assignment Practice Course Activity: At SDCCD, faculty members are enrolled in courses as instructors with the ability to edit a course. You have been enrolled as an instructor into a separate training course, the Practice Course, which will be used from now on throughout the training. You will need to login to that Practice Course to complete this activity. You can open a second browser program, and login to Blackboard to access that Practice Course now. To complete this Practice Course Activity, please follow the steps below: 2. Locate the main areas of your course: Course Menu, Control Panel, Edit Mode ON/OFF button, and Content Area 3. Think about how you might organize the Course Menu in your online course. Then add a new link to the Course Menu in the Practice Course. For example, you could add a link in the Course Menu to the Announcement tool. Be sure that the link is set to be available to your students. Use the Edit Mode ON/OFF button to double-check that the link is available on the Course Menu. the question(s) below in the Type Submission textbox below (in Blackboard). Your reflection will be graded based on the details, examples, and specific information that you share. If you aren't sure about what is expected of you in the Reflection Activity, you can access the
1. What link did you add to your Practice Course Menu? 2. How might you organize the Course Menu in your own course in Blackboard? 3. How will your Course Menu organization facilitate navigation of your course for your students? Module 4 Assignment Practice Course Activity: To complete this Practice Course Activity, please follow these steps: 2. Add your current course syllabus (for an online SDCCD course) to your Practice Course using any of the methods described in this module. 3. Create an Announcement in the Practice Course. 4. Create a Course Event in the Calendar. (In your Practice Course, this will be called an 'Organization Event.') 1. What specific modifications will you need to make to your syllabus in order for it to clearly present accurate information to your online students on the first day of class? 2. Please refer to the SDCCD Online Learning Pathways Syllabus Checklist and our own Faculty Training Course Syllabus to identify any necessary updates to your syllabus. 3. How do you plan on setting the tone for the semester in your online class? 4. What techniques and/or tools will you utilize to share information, introduce yourself, and encourage interaction in your online course during those critical first weeks of the semester? Module 5 Assignment Practice Course Activity: To complete this Practice Course Activity, please follow the steps below. 2. Create one of the following items in your Practice Course: discussion forum, journal, wiki, blog, ElluminateLive room. Use the information in this module to create a topic that will achieve the required learning objectives for an activity in your course. Create something that is new to you. So if you're already familiar with forums, then try creating a journal, wiki, blog, or ElluminateLive room. 3. Set the item that you create in step 2 to be gradable, and assign it the point value that you'd use in your own online course for that item. 4. Once you have created one of the above items in your Practice Course, you can navigate back to this Faculty Training Course. (If you've created an ElluminateLive room and you'd like a course instructor to join you in your Practice Course at a specific time, then please send a message to an instructor to coordinate a date/time to meet in your Practice Course ElluminateLive room.) 1. Journals and blogs may be new to you. Describe two specific ways that you could use journals and/or blogs in your own online course. What kind of participation (reflection, conversation, collaboration, narrative, critique, debate, etc.) would you elicit from students? 2. Now that you have participated in our course wiki, describe a way that you could utilize a wiki in your own course. 3. Which synchronous tools will you make use of in your course? Module 6 Assignment
2. Create a new Content Area that is linked on the Course Tools Menu of your Practice Course. The name of the Content Area should help to identify the content that it will contain. 3. In the new content area, add materials from your actual course. Add the following four pieces of content to that content area: A Blackboard item (Build Content - Item) describing the materials that are posted inside the content area you've created Two files (choose two different filetypes that you plan to use for your actual course: (.pptx or.docx or.pdf)) If you plan to use PowerPoint in your online course, try using Slideshare. You can upload your PowerPoint slides to your Slideshare account and embed the slides directly into the Content Area that you created in the previous step. A web site (of your choosing) Turn off Edit Mode to see how that content area is displayed to your students. the question(s) below in the Submission textbox below. Your reflection will be graded based on the details, examples, and 1. How do you plan to organize the content in your course? 2. What kinds of files and content do you plan to share with your students? 3. If you plan to use content from your publisher, have you checked that the content meets the requirements for both ADA compliance for students with vision and hearing disabilities as well as the Education Code for instructional materials fees? (See Module 2). 4. Will you restrict the release of content by date? Do you plan to use Adaptive Release or Review Status? Module 7 Assignment 1. Select an assignment that you currently use in your online or face-to-face class. Create that assignment in Blackboard Learn. 2. Navigate to the Assignments Content Area of the Practice Course. 3. Create the Assignment in your Practice Course, updating the assignment appropriately for the online environment. As you setup the assignment, be sure to include the following information: a. What electronic format should be used to submit the assignment? Attached file or submitted text? Filetype? Formatted text? b. If you plan to utilize Turnitin in your course, you may create this assignment using Turnitin. c. Make sure that the assignment is setup with the appropriate Points Possible for grading and that a column is created in the Grade Center. d. Now create a Rubric for the assignment. e. In the Grading section of the Edit Assignment screen, click the "Add Rubric" button and select "Create New Rubric." (Blackboard OnDemand tutorial: How to Create a Grade Rubric) f. Name the rubric and customize the criteria and levels of achievement for each criterion. g. Set the rubric to be used for grading the assignment and visible to students with rubric scores. the question(s) below in a MS Word document that you attach to this assignment. (This will allow us to show you the use of the Inline Grading tools that you learned about in this module.) Your reflection will be graded based on the details, examples, and 1. Describe the assignment that you created in your Practice Course and the deliverables that students must submit. 2. How does this assignment demonstrate student achievement of a learning outcome in your course? 3. Feedback is so important in an online class. How do you plan to give feedback to your students about their online assignments?
Module 8 Assignment 1. Build a question pool called Sample Questions. 2. Create three questions in the Sample Questions pool. Choose three different question types - whichever types you are most likely to use in your own course, and write your own questions. If you write a multiple choice question, be sure to use the links included in this module to write a multiple choice question that will require students to use critical thinking. 3. Build a test called Sample Test and add your three new questions to Sample Test. 4. Deploy the Sample Test on the homepage of your Practice Course with the following setting test options: link should be available announcement should also be added do not set force completion set timer to 10 minutes with auto-submit turned on place date restrictions on the test - you decide the dates randomize the question order display questions one at a time don't let students go back to questions they've already answered you decide the additional test options 1. Describe how/if you plan to use tests in your online class. Why? Why not? 2. Describe how you will design your questions and setup your tests so that they best assess your students' learning. 3. What resources will be available to students in your course who might be new to online testing? Module 9 Assignment To successfully complete this assignment, you need to have already completed the assignments for Module 5 (Create DB/Wiki/Journal/Blog), Module 7 (Create an Assignment), and Module 8 (Create a Test). You will be using the Grade Center columns for those items that you created in previous modules to complete this activity. 1. Navigate to the Full Grade Center of your Practice Course 2. Manually create a column named In-class Essay that is worth 50 points 3. Locate the columns that were created in previous activities: a. Locate the column that was created in the Grade Center when you created the new Discussion/Journal/Wiki/Blog in Module 5. b. Locate the column that was created in the Grade Center when you created the new Assignment in Module 7. c. Locate the column that was created in the Grade Center when you created the test in Module 8. 4. Create a Calculated Column named Total Points that will automatically total the points that students earned on the below items: a. In-class essay b. Forum/Wiki/Journal/Blog (whichever one you created in Module 5) c. Assignment (that you created in Module 7) d. Test (that you created in Module 8) 5. Enter scores for each of the four items above for student Christopher Andalo (pcstudent01), and make sure that your Total Points column sums correctly. 6. Sort the Grade Center on the Total Points column from highest to lowest 7. Reorder the Total Points column so that it appears after the column for students' first names. 8. Hide the Total Points column from students, but keep it visible to you, the instructor.
the question(s) below in the Submission textbox below. Your reflection will be graded based on the details, examples, and 1. You have received grades and different kinds of feedback as a student in this training course. Which feedback have you found to be most effective for you as a student? (test question feedback, rubrics, written text feedback, audio/video, etc.) 2. How has your experience as a student in this training course changed the way that you will release grades, send feedback, or reorganize the My Grades tool for your own students? 3. What outstanding questions do have you have regarding the Grade Center in Blackboard Learn? Module 10 Assignment 2. Access the Packages and Utilities area of the Control Panel. 3. Click on the Export/Archive Organization link. 4. Click on the Archive button and click all the checkboxes to be included in the archive file, and click Submit. 5. Forward the system-generated email that you received once the archive is complete to support@sdccdonline.net. (Allow several minutes for the archive process to run. Instructors receive a system-generated email once the archive is complete.) 6. Once the archive has been created, save it to your local machine by clicking the ActionLink button next to the archive name, and selecting Open. Then click Save and select a location to save the file on your computer. This is the third generation of this training course. Every time we offer the course, we ask participants to complete an evaluation and give us feedback on ways that we could improve. We ve received some great suggestions that we've implemented for you here in this revised version of the course. We'll ask you for that same feedback at the end of this course, so that we can make it even better for the faculty who take the course with us next year. Using student feedback is an essential piece to designing and developing your online course. 1. How (using which tool) do you plan to get feedback from your students? Why have you decided on that tool? 2. When do you plan to ask your students for their feedback? Mid-semester? At the end of the semester? Why? 3. What other methods will you use to determine where/if your course may need to be updated?