@ONE Designing Effective Online Assessments Certificate of Completion

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Summary of Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works

Pitler, Howard (2012). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works, 2nd Edition. Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development.

I chose this book because quite a few years ago, the noncredit basic skills group read and discussed Marzano’s Classroom Instructionthat Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, and I found the research=backed structured instructional strategies for teaching students to think and study useful, even though the book is more geared at younger students. The key research-based strategies outlined in that text, along with specific classroom materials in the accompanying Handbook, are the following:

Summary of Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies

Pacansky-Brock, Michelle (2012). Best Practices for Teaching with Emerging Technologies. Routledge. 

I love this book!  It is a very quick read with tons of great ideas.  I took Michelle Pacansky-Brock’s @ONE … course in 2011, and she is definitely a leader in technology in pedagogy. 

Here are some valuable points and interesting take-aways from the book:

@ONE Introduction to Teaching With Blackboard 9.1 Course

Certification of Completion

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Resources for Each Week

Week 1:

• What is different about teaching online? 
• Are you ready to teach online? 
• Seven principles of good teaching practice 

Week 2:

• Converting Your Course to Online
  Links to various tips and guidelines on how to make this conversion

• Creating an Online Syllabus
  Suggestions on how to create an online syllabus
• Organizing Your Online Course Material
  Ideas on how to organize material online
• Creating Accessible Online Content
  Information on universal design and making online material accessible to users with disabilities
• Integrating Web Resources
  Examples of external web sites that can be integrated with your online course
• Copyright, Fair Use, and Intellectual Property Issues
  Material on how to navigate these topics
• What Does an Excellent Online Course Look Like?
  Viewable models of online courses

Week 3:

• Why Promote Participation and Interaction
  Benefits of student participation
• How to Promote Participation and Interaction
  Practical suggestions
• "Motivate and Engage Online Learners All Semester Long"
  This article appeared in Campus Technology and lists ten tips to keep students involved
• Classroom Management Tips
  Advice on how to manage students in the online classroom

From the Blackboard Learning Center

Blackboard Learn: On Demand Tutorials

The Blackboard YouTube channel offers videos for instructors and students on its various tools. This page has links to videos relevant to the material covered in this lesson:

·       Discussion Board Tour

The following videos were made with a prior version of Blackboard, so some of the interface elements differ (like the buttons on the content editor or how some options do not appear unless the mouse pointer hovers over them). However, the ways the tools work has not changed:

Discussion

o   Creating a Discussion Board Forum

o   Changing Discussion Board Forum Settings

o   Grading Discussion Forums

o   Grading Discussion Threads

Groups

o   Creating a Group

o   Creating Group Sets

Blogs and Journals

o   Creating a Journal

o   Creating and Editing Journal Entries

o   Commenting on a Journal Entry

o   Creating a Blog

o   Creating and Editing Blog Entries

o   Commenting on a Blog Entry

Wikis

o   Creating a Wiki

o   Adding Rich Content to a Wiki

o   Editing a Wiki Page

o   Linking Wiki Pages

o   Viewing a Wiki Page History

o   Grading a Wiki

Week 4

·        Question Types in Blackboard
From the University of Southampton

·        Uploading Questions
This is a direct link to the page in the online Blackboard manual describing how to create a file for bulk upload of questions to a Pool or Test. 

·        Working with the Grade Center
This is a direct link to the page in the online Blackboard manual describing how to work with the Grade Center, including the use of Grading Schemas and Grading Periods

·        Letter Grades and the Grade Center
This page is focused on how Grading Schemas can be used to input letter grades

·        Using Adaptive Release for Custom Quiz Timing
Video tutorial from CSU Channel Islands

·        Assessment of Students
From the Illinois Online Network

·        Quiz Makers
Additional links to web tools for assessment

·        Cheating and Plagiarism
Questions and links on academic integrity in distance education

Blackboard Learn: On Demand Tutorials

The Blackboard YouTube channel offers videos for instructors and students on its various tools. This page has links to videos relevant to the material covered in this lesson:

·        Creating a Test

·        Automatic Regrading

·        Creating Assignments

·        Using SafeAssignment

·        Creating Grade Center Columns

·        Deploying and Grading Group Assignments 

·        Creating a Rubric

·        Grading with Rubrics

Note: These videos were made with a prior version of Blackboard, so some of the interface elements differ (like the buttons on the content editor or how some options do not appear unless the mouse pointer hovers over them). However, the ways the tools work has not changed.

Blackboard's online help for instructors (linked from the Control Panel of all Blackboard courses) also has detailed explanations of how various tools work. The following relate to the content covered in this lesson:

·        Inline Grading for Assignments

·        Using Direct Submit
This allows instructors to submit electronic files to Blackboard's plagiarism-detection service collected outside of a SafeAssignment.

@ONE Designing Effective Online Assessments Course Week 4

The topic for this week was assessment plans:  How to modify, as needed, assessments to online format.

@ONE Designing Effective Online Assessments Course Week 3

Key Take-Aways from this week: Performance, Alternative and Authentic Assessment

Performance Assessment

The following three videos provide a good introduction to Authentic Assessment:
Assessment Overview: Beyond Standardized Testing
Authentic Assessment
Challenge Based Learning: Authentic Assessment

@ONE Desiging Effective Online Assessments Course Week 2

Essential course content from this week:

Why Use Traditional Assessments?

The table below provides some of the advantages of objective tests.

Advantage	Explanation
Students can provide a great deal of information on a broad range of learning outcomes in a short period of time.	This is called efficiency. If you only have 45 minutes to assess students and you have a large number of outcomes or areas to assess then a multiple choice test will be more efficient than an essay test.
Objective tests encourage broader, but shallower, learning than subjective assessments because of their efficiency.	If you are interested in seeing if students have a general understanding of a broad area, such as English Literature in the US, then a multiple choice is a good approach. If you wish to see if a student has an understanding of a specific work of literature, such as Of Mice and Men, then an essay approach would be better.
Objective tests are fast and easy to score, although they are difficult to construct well.	Because of the time involved in constructing good objective assessments, reuse is essential to their overall utility. This means that the items and tests must be securely stored.
Objective assessment results can be summarized into a single number.	This number, also called a performance indicator, makes the tests appealing to those who have to make decisions at the course, program or institution levels.