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Pixton

What is Pixton? Pixton is a online comics-generating tool with education-specific account options. Instructors can create assignments on Pixton, then populate the account with students. Students may then create comics within that Pixton account in response to the assignment. How can I use Pixton in my class? – Create any course document with comics – Allow students to explore image-based scholarship – Share comics within your Pixton classroom and/or with the entire Pixton community – Pixton is especially useful in second language acquisition Get started using Pixton Create an account at Pixton.com. Explore the free options first, and then explore [Read On...]

Teaching Tip – Assessments

Assessments How and why you provide a variety of graded elements to students. If you’re curious about different teaching methods and assessment types, this overview of assessments is just enough to whet your appetite. The Teaching Tip covers performance-based assessment, also known as authentic, and give you a great series of links to learn more about different assessment types. Websites with very clear examples of ways to engage your student are included. Read the tip; follow a link; explore! Teaching Tip – Assessments

First Assignment – Contact

The Contact Assignment The first eLearning lesson module should include an exercise that will establish the first contact between the instructor and individual students and be due during the first few days of classes. Ideally this activity should take place while students can still get some tuition refunded (3rd Friday after classes begin) if they (or you) decide to drop them. The purpose of this assignment is to confirm that every student can: log into Blackboard or other course site understands how to get started in the course access their university email account overcome their technical difficulties What’s it look like? [Read On...]

Tests/Surveys/Pools

How can I use Assessment in my class? Tests/Surveys Tests can be used on a module (or lesson) basis or to serve as a mid-term or final assessment. There are a many different question types available that provide a template for just about all requirements. Some question types are better suite for auto-grading like True/False, Multiple Choice, Matching, Multiple Answer, and others. Correct and incorrect comments can be given for immediate feedback to students. Sample answers for short answer questions can be given as a “correct” answer but the instructor will have to assignment points for this type of question. [Read On...]

Assignments

How can I use Assignments in my class? Using the Assignments feature is a much preferred method than having students emailing lessons/homework directly to you. Instructors pose a problem (and attach additional files if necessary) and then gives the student the opportunity to complete the assignment and attached a separate file and submit it to the instructor. There is space available for comments for both instructor and student. A column in the grade center is automatically created. Instructors grade the assignment from within the grade center and post a grade and provide feedback all in one place. Some of the [Read On...]

Test Question Types

There are many different types of questions types you can use to create test/exam questions. Besides the predictable True/False, Multiple Choice, Matching, Ordering, Essay, or Fill in the blank, here are some other options. Calculated Formula Questions A Calculated Formula question contains a formula, the variables of which can be set to change for each user. The variable range is created by specifying a minimum value and a maximum value for each variable. Answer sets are randomly generated. The correct answer can be a specific value or a range of values. Partial credit may be granted for answers falling in [Read On...]

Assessment Mapping

After you have your lesson outcomes completed you will begin to design the assessments for students to prove to you that they have an understanding. Keeping in mind the UBD “egg” make  sure you are focusing the more complicate of assessments or majority of assessments on those big  ideas and big course outcomes. Effort Mapping Here are some examples of different assessment types and an evaluation of the amout of Instructor Effort and Student Effort for completing the assessment based on 1 for little effort and 3 for a lot of effort. Instructor’s effort includes time spent to create the [Read On...]

Blackboard Assessments

What is the Assessment process in Blackboard? There are a variety of assessment tools available to you in Blackboard to help you to evaluate student work or to provide self-assessment type activities for your students. All the assessment features have these similar features. When an assessment is created, a entry in the grade center it automatically created. This means that some care should be put into naming of the title of the assessment so you are able to identify a particular assessment in the grade center. If you name all assessments that relate to a written assignment, “Paper” you’ll have [Read On...]