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Keeping Track of Students
This newsletter contains information on how to keep track of your students and grade efficiently. Feel free to use as adapt as it suits your style and needs.
Keeping Track of Communication
- You can use the spreadsheet below to keep track of communication with your students.
- I simply copy and paste the cell with my communication notes into TheSIS.
- NOTE: You cannot copy and paste the link to the spreadsheet into TheSIS. That is considered a FERPA violation.
- You can create a copy of this spreadsheet to use in future semesters.
Grading Efficiently
- I like to create a notebook in OneNote or Evernote for each module in my course.
- Then, I create a page for each assignment. In the assignment page, I keep track of my feedback (and the HTML code for the feedback once I've used it in my course at least once), and some common comments I leave for them. HERE is an example of one of these pages for a discussion.
- This way, if you teach the course again, your feedback and comments are saved.
- UPDATED Fall 2020: I've switched to using OneDrive and my Sandbox for feedback. Here's an example of a module of physics feedback in OneDrive.
- Of course, you do what works best for YOU. It may take you a little bit to figure that out (and that's okay.)
Great Feedback
Remember, great feedback includes a video, or a link to an outside source. It is also personalized for the student. I might have feedback for students that earn 100%, 80 or above, in the 70s, and below 70 on an assignment. If they lose points according to the rubric, I like to tell them WHY they lost points
If I need to create feedback for an assignment about "cells" for example, I will google cells and look and see what I can find about that topic. I try to link to sites that explain the information in that assignment or attach a video that explains the topic. To attach a video, you must download it. I like to use http://www.youtubedownloaderhd.com/
Some Extra Goodies to Help Make the Start of the Semester Easier.
This could be sent out as part of a news announcement or added to your bulletin board or welcome powerpoint.
This could be used as a bulletin board header.
Frequently, students have difficulty with aspects of the LMS at the beginning of the semester. I've found screenshots are worth 1000 words.
Carrie made this image for the syllabus page.
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