danaleeling

Submission rates are good for courses with assignments due during week one, can be improved. ESS 101w has a Saturday due date on weekly walks. Given that up to almost half of the students depend on their local campus to access the Internet*, the week one submission rate for ESS 101w is likely to rise on Monday. SC/SS 115 had no assignment due week one, the rate shown is early submissions of an assignment due next Tuesday.  This chart has been updated with nine additional responses and continues to show a strong student preference for videos and slides for learning material online.  Tracking of individual video performances by the number of views across multiple videos in multiple courses. Videos tend to peak on the day the video is linked from the calendar for that section , suggesting that the calendar is setting the course pace as intended. The broader picture is that video viewing this past week saw an initial peak on Sunday and then fell off, climbing again through Thursd...

Students in my courses were polled with the following question, "When learning new material online, which one of the following do you prefer?" Reading and learning from a textbook Viewing and learning from a presentation in PowerPoint or Google Slides Watching and learning from a video such as on YouTube Watching and learning from an all class videoconference on Zoom or Conferences Sixty-nine of 120 students have responded to the poll.  I would note that this poll was developed in the wake of specific conversations and exchanges that suggested some level of student dissatisfaction with synchronous videoconference class sessions. One can always choose to shoot the messenger, I was just looking to attach numbers to what I was hearing. 

The take home: average readiness for my four courses was 82% The take home: one in six students has only a smartphone The take home: half of the students lose access to their courses at Cor Con 3 The take home: The last 6% of the students not logging into Schoology will consume 94% of our efforts