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In this video, Jerry Lassetter shows several ways you can identify and communicate with struggling students in your online class, with a goal of improving their participation, grades and overall class experience.
Topics covered in this video:
Participants
- Login days and times give clues on participation
Outlook emails
- Use Outlook to bcc potentially struggling students (better than CampusNet messaging, which can be turned off)
Gradebook
- Use it to find downhill slides and cliffs
Lectures
- How to see a students progress in watching an instruction video (percentage complete)
- Also look for clues that a lecture may be too long
Student Communication to You
- Who is asking?
- Who is not asking?
- Multiple student questions for an assignment
Get ahead of students
- Communicate
- Encourage engagement
- Scaffolding
- Grades and feedback