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What is Expected of an Online Teacher?. Our Infrastructure. V.O.C.A.L. To have a successful on-line program, everyone involved must be VOCAL. Instructors who practice the VOCAL concepts will have a more productive learning environment. isible. rganized. VOCAL. ompassionate. nalytical.
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V.O.C.A.L To have a successful on-line program, everyone involved must be VOCAL. Instructors who practice the VOCAL concepts will have a more productive learning environment.
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Be Visible • Visibility can be through your teacher website that gives personal and professional information. • Create colorful and informative announcements, emails and discussion board posts. • Post a Trivia Question for students to respond to for extra credit.
Be Organized • Posting a schedule with due dates so students know when assignments are due. • Create a discussion board thread for students to post current events. • Find an on-line self assessment test that students can take at the start of the course.
Be Compassionate • Allowing students to contact you anytime through phone, emails or pager. • The teacher being understanding when a student contacts him/her to explain that they have not completed assignments by the deadline because of a death in the family or an illness.
Be Analytical • Post clear expectations and guidelines. • Post a discussion board thread that allows students to suggest ways to help them be more successful in the course.
Lead by Example • Model the correct way to communicate on-line. • Share information about yourself so students can get to know you. • Try to plan and implement an end of the course activity.
Okay… Are you ready to see your classroom?
Blackboard URL: http://blackboard.hcde.org
The student’s user name is his/her email address The student’s password is his/her birth date in the format ‘mmddyyyy’
"My Home" Screen... Click on the name of the course.
"Course Home" Screen... Within this area will be announcements that you generate!
For students, 99% of their navigation starts by selecting one of the links within this circle! When you want to look at the course as the students will see it, go through these links.
This Control Panel link takes you to your instructor screen. You will use it very often!
"Control Panel" You will start at this screen when you want to add announcements, modify settings, put in grades, look at statistics/student information, send emails, etc.
Feeling a bit confused? Let's narrow it down to more specific requirements of an online teacher...
You will need to get your classroom set up before the first day of class... Let’s go over what you need to do before students start…
Creating Your Profile On the first day of school, you usually open up your class by introducing yourself. You want your students to get a feel for your personality and your interests. You want them to feel comfortable in your classroom. Your profile introduces you to your students!
To begin creating your profile, from your Course Home page, you will choose the Control Panel link.
Select Yes here… Attach your picture… And submit!
Now, when your students log in to your course and select the Staff Information link, they will see your profile!
Posting Your Contact Information Your students need to know when and how they can contact you. You should be “in your office” for 5 hours each week (10 during the summer session). If you will not be in during your regular office hours, notify your students.
Office hours should be posted within your profile. You may also choose to post them on an announcement, in an email, and/or in the discussion board. • You should include the following in your office hours posting: • The days and hours each week that you can be contacted in which the student will get an immediate response from you. • A statement that ensures the student that you will respond to his/her contact within 24 hours if the contact is outside of your office hours. • How you want “normal” contact to occur. You may want the student to contact you through email, or you can also open up the possibility of them calling you directly.
Posting a Welcome Announcement You want to welcome students on their first day in your class! Your welcome announcement will be the first thing they see when they “walk in the door”
To post an announcement, from your Control Panel screen, click on the Announcements link.
Fill out the subject line, compose the message, add pictures, complete the options section and click Submit at the bottom!
Now, when your students “walk through your door” and go to their Course Home screen, they will see your welcome announcement!
Questions??? Confused? Ask us ANYTHING!
Assignment: • Login • Draft your profile • Draft your welcome announcement Your Turn to Work! URL: http://blackboard.hcde.org 10 minutes
Developing a Pacing Guide You will need to set up a pacing guide in order to give the students a map of due dates for all assignments. The pacing guide is a suggested schedule for the students to complete all work within the allotted time frame of the course.
You are responsible for ensuring that the course is paced evenly throughout the semester. Your first step will be to verify the start and end dates for your course. Once you have this, count how many working weeks you will have within your course schedule. Be sure to deduct for major holidays, spring break, fall break, etc. If you are teaching an A/B course (Algebra 1A and 1B or English 12A and 12B), you need to allot for both portions within the semester you are teaching!
From your Course Home screen, you can find an outline of your course by selecting the Course Information link. After selecting the Course Information link, choose Course Outline
This outlines all the items your students will need to complete.
Next, you will use the course outline to estimate the amount of time you feel is needed to cover each section. Note: Students should work on their course between 8-10 hours per week for spring/fall or between 15-18 hours for summer.
Using the provided course outline and your estimate of how long students should spend on each section, you can now mark which assignments should be completed each week in order to get through the entire course on time!
This pacing guide should include specific due dates (Week # / Day # for HMP) for all discussion boards, assignments, quizzes, exams, etc. Do not forget to allow study time for a final exam or Gateway! After creating your pacing guide (in Word or Excel), you will need to post it under the Course Information link. In addition, we recommend you post an announcement with instructions on how to find the pacing guide and email a copy to your students and parents!
To add your pacing guide, from your Course Home page, you will choose the Control Panel link.
After selecting the Course Information link, click on this icon to add your pacing guide
Enter the name of your document [i.e. “Your Pacing Guide (with due dates)” ] and any additional information in the text box…
Select Browse to attach your document… Complete desired options and then click on Submit!
Now, when your students select the Course Information link, they will see the pacing guide!
Setting Feedback Options... If you have multiple choice or fill in the blank assignments within your course, the assignments’ default feedback setting will be to give the student the correct answers with feedback to each question when the student submits the assignment (or gets locked out of the assignment). This can give an unfair advantage to some students. Therefore, you need to decide which assignments you want to keep the default setting and which assignments you want to change the setting.
