Starting and Ending Your Semester with a Bang!
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This document outlines best practices for starting and ending a semester. Before the semester begins, instructors should set course availability, post a current syllabus, create a welcome announcement, provide directions for students, copy the course to a template, clean up content by checking links and dates, and remind students to update personal information. After the semester ends, instructors should make the course unavailable for at least two weeks, clean up content collections, and prepare the template for copying in the next semester. Following these best practices helps ensure courses are organized, up-to-date and accessible for students.
Starting and Ending Your Semester with a Bang!
- 1. -BEST PRACTICES- Starting and Ending Your Semester with a Bang! Villa R. Vance, MS - Instructional Designer August 22, 2018 - View College The Learning Technology Team
- 2. Objectives ❏ List different best practices before & after the start of the semester. ❏ Learn to apply the best practices in the course. ❏ Share best practices and incorporate what you learned. ❏ Learn the importance of having best practices. At the end of the presentation, learners will be able to;
- 4. What are the best practices before the start of the semester?
- 5. Before the Start of the Semester ❏Set availability of the course ❏Post a CURRENT Syllabus ❏Create an announcement - set availability to first day of class ❏ Welcome your student ❏ Provide direction on what to do ❏ https://bit.ly/2sroTZE
- 6. Before the Start of the Semester ❏Copy your course ❏ Copy your course to a course template ❏ Send request to helpdesk ❏ Request assistance from an Instructional Designer ❏Use a Course Template ❏ Clean and organized your content
- 7. Before the Start of the Semester ❏CLEAN UP Course (before/after copy) ❏ Edit announcements to update creation date ❏ Check links and update as needed ❏ Update due dates ❏ Delete duplicate items or menu items ❏ Check availability of the content item ❏ Check your grade center columns ❏ Clean up discussion boards ❏ Check test pools and delete duplicate
- 8. Before the Start of the Semester ❏Remind the student to update personal information. ❏Make sure all content is ADA Compliant
- 9. END of the Semester. It’s time to relax
- 10. After the Semester is Over ❏Make course unavailable ❏ At least 2 weeks after the semester ends ❏Clean up Content Collections ❏Prepare your template for copy
- 11. ❏Why do all these best practices? ❏What can we gain from it?
- 13. Contact Information villavance@dcccd.edu Additional Resource: Best Practices for Teaching Online - Brown University https://bit.ly/2ET90Du ltt@dcccd.edu