Considerations for Faculty Notes, Getting Started and Ending Assignments

Introduction

This page provides resources for consideration when crafting faculty notes pages as well as getting started and ending assignments. It is important to get students engaging with your course early in simple and meaningful ways that will help them through the semester.

• Faculty Notes pages [Do NOT Publish]
  • This provides a reference for faculty when refreshing or managing their courses. It is placed in the course and usually unpublished so only faculty can see it.

Here are some of our "go to" getting started and ending assignments.  Feel free to use and customize these for your own courses:

• Update Profile/Notifications
  • The helps students receive vital course communications
• Class Introductions
  • You can build class community through creative class introductions such as video introductions in a discussion
    • This helps everyone put names and faces together and make connections over similar interests
    • This is also an opportunity for the faculty to acknowledge and welcome students to class in the discussion comments which increases teacher presence 
• Syllabus Quiz
  • A syllabus quiz can help ensure students understand course expectations
    • The syllabus quiz provided in this module is linked to a question bank with a variety of questions you can customize to your own course
    • Linking to a question bank rather than adding the questions to the quiz makes for easy updates simply by editing the question bank
      • The only time you will have to update your syllabus quiz is to change the due dates
    • Module prerequisite can be set so students must take the syllabus quiz as many times as needed to get a perfect score which releases full course materials
• Student Rating of Instructor (SRI)
  • Some faculty encourage students to take the course SRI by creating an assignment around it   

 

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