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Orienting students
Objective
The objective for this session is to o!er strategies you can use with your students to help orient them to online instruction. Below are the specic topics that will be highlighted in this document.
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Explain why it is important to orient students when teaching. Highlight why this is even more critical when using online communication. Help you understand the di!erence between face to face and online mediated courses and communication. O!er strategies you can employ with students to help with online communication. Tie the above strategies to tools at your disposal in the LMS.
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You can hold your students more accountable for the work they complete online. You can see when and what your students are doing within your course. You can make adjustments to help student success, based on data. You must draw boundaries for yourself. You must communicate more with online instruction. You must communicate within a reasonable timeframe (24 hours). You must have set channels for communication to happen. You must demonstrate how to complete each assignment.
When thinking about the previous statements, you can begin to understand that your students need your help for them to be successful in your course.
Cover the who, what, when, where, and why the rst day of class.
Understand that you will probably need to devote the rst day of your course to this task.
Cover the syllabus including grade distribution in the rst class day.
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Log into your course and literally show your students what is looks like. Highlight how you have your course laid out and where they can nd the tools within your course. Create assignments that will help students self orient to your course. Make sure to o!er points as an incentive for completion.
Have the students log in and/or nd the required online resources. Have them nd the grade book. Have them send an email from within the course Have them post to a forum Etc.
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Explain to the students what technology they will need to complete the course. Demonstrate to your students how to complete each assignment before they become available to the students.
When covering this in class it is important to use orienting language that will focus your
students on the task you are covering. Phrases like This is important, You will need to know this in order to complete the assignment, This will be on the test are examples of orienting phrases. Once students have become better at self orientation these phrases are less necessary but still useful.
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Demonstrate to your students what you expect to receive depending on the given task.
It is helpful if you have a student account which you can show the process students will
need to go through to complete a task. This is not only helpful in showing the students how to complete a task, but will demonstrate for them what a completed task looks like from their perspective. Student and instructors do not see things the same way within an online environment.
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Explain what your preferred communication channel is and set what you consider to be a reasonable response time for communication with your students
A channel may be email, telephone, text, or course forum. Students must know where to
reach you, and must understand how quickly they should expect to hear a reply from you. The student expectations will vary depending on the channel chosen. If you do not clearly state what you deem to be reasonable, you can cause frustration. An example would be texting. Students may assume that you will respond instantly, if they text you. If you think that 24 hours is reasonable for this channel you must let your students know this.
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O!er study tips to your students on how they can manage their time and complete assignments.
It is a good idea to have some assignments due in stages. Complete part A by this day and
then do part B to nish. This will help build the types of study habits you expect from your students.
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Lecture Capture - It is a good idea to record your courses so that students have access to the material you cover. This is called lecture capture and is a relatively easy process. By doing this you not only provide a way for students that have missed your courses to have access to the material you covered but it also provides a resource for students to use as a study reference. Quizzes - Quizzes are a great way to develop self paced orienting materials that hold students accountable. Quizzes can be created to cover your syllabus, course layout, due dates, Etc. Forums - Forums are a good vehicle for peer help. During the semester there is much material you are responsible for. If you create forums where students can post issues they are having di"culties with in the course, and o!er extra credit to students who help within these fora, the students may get the help they were seeking before you have had a chance to even know about the issue. Many hands make light work. Email - This is a quick one to one communication option that is a asynchronous that can solve many issues that arrive. Lesson - A lesson is a way to present instruction in a given order to students. When you create lessons you are saying that students must do X before they do Y before they do Z. This is a way to ensure that information is not skipped by the impatient student. Book - A book is a way for you to collect many sources into a single resource. If you had a video, some text and a picture that you wanted to have your students look at, you could compile them into one book rather than three separate links. Page - a page is a web page that you create in your course to provide text material to students. Rather than having documents that students download, a page keeps information bound to the place that it is relevant within the course. URL - a url is just a link to an outside web page. The di!erence is that rather than simply providing a link to the page it will display it in relation to your course. This will help keep your students from not returning to your course once they have navigated away.
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