Tena Crews

Edwin, Thanks for your input. Making sure you communicate your expectations to the students and keeping an open communication with the students is very important. Keeping the course easy to navigate is also key. Thanks for your input.

Andy, You do need to do some diagnostics to see what your students already know. That helps establish the amount of information you can cover in a course and how quickly you can cover the information. Also, providing information in a variety of ways to connect with all students is important. BTW - be careful with your spelling. . .the students will call you out on it or they will use texting language. If you don't care if they use texting language. . .that's up to you. Thanks for your input.

Steven, Right. Rubrics help the students understand the expectations and helps the instructor be consistent in assessment. Thanks

Nicole, These are very important requirements. Assessing your technology and your students' is important to make sure you provide information to students so they can open or view them with their technology. Thanks for your input.

Nicole, You describe good communication techniques. This is necessary for good online courses. As you set the course standards, make sure they understand the expectations. Thanks for your input.

William, Peer evaluations are great. Students can provide great input as well. Thanks.

Charles, Correct. And, this relates back to your question about centering around the student. Thank you.

Steven, You are right. Keep the communication going and make sure students know the expectations. As you provide your students with feedback, be positive, but provide constructive criticism. Thanks for your input.

William, Thanks for your organized thoughts. You are right on track. Some have called your feedback in #3 as the sandwhich feedback. Positive on both sides with constructive critcism in the middle. Thanks again.

Steven, Thanks for your input in this forum. You bring up three great points. It is important to determine the objectives of the course and communicate them to students. It's also important to let them know what is expected of them, but yet identify how they learn best. Time and workloads are always an issue, but they need to know your class is important and it's worth taking time for. Thanks again.