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LMS 104 Revamped

This text emphasizes the importance of community in educational settings, particularly within online courses. It discusses various aspects of course design, including how to assess and improve the sense of community among students.

LMS 104 Revamped

LMS 104 Revamped:Communication andCommunity

Classlist

Quiz?
Classlist Presentation

Course Email

Quick Start Guides
Using the Filter By: and Search For: Tools
Course Mail Associations
Read vs Unread and Other Tools
Recommended Course Mail Settings
Changing Course Associations
Sending a Link
Attaching Files to Your Mail
Using the Address Book Tool
Finding Couse Mail Messages
Using the Address Book Folder
Replying and Forwarding
Composing Course Email
What You Need to Know to Use Course Email
How and Why to Use Course Email

Community Connections

Assessment of "Community"

Choose Option 1 or Option 2.

Option 1:

Choose any course with which you are familiar. Assess that course in terms of its strengths and weaknesses in facilitating community. Use the concepts from "Community, Courses and Maslow's Hierarchy" in your critique.

Option 2:

Tell us how we have done as community builders in creating and presenting this course.

Assess the Florida Online Academy in terms of its sthrengths and weaknesses in facilitating community.

Use the concepts from "Community, Courses and Maslow's Hierarchy" in your critique.

Assessment
Scenarios to Discuss
Community, Courses and Maslow's Hierarchy

Culture Shock vs Community

Culture Shock
Introducing this module

The introductory video demonstrates feelings of Culture Shock.

New technology and new ways to take classes can overwhelm students with Culture Shock. As a student yourself, in this Online Academy, you may have felt some Culture Shock yourself.

You've been leanring new technology as you teach and as you have been studying this course.

An antidote to the feelilngs Culture Shock is a sense of community, of knowing that you are not alone, that you are valued.

In this module we focus on concepts, techniques and tools that you can use to communicate with students and help them feel that they are part of a community that values them and their learning.

The tools we cover are Course Email, Discussion Topics and Groups. In each case you can take the lessons covering the tools in any sequence you want.

You can take the Quizzes at any time, even before you take the lessons.

Once you pass the Quizzes with a score of 80% or higher, you're done with those lessons.

The presentation on "Community, Courses and Maslow's Hierarchy" has ways to think about courses as tools for community building.

The other leesons under Community tie everything together. They present ways to think about using the tools in the Learning Management System in order to build community and they give you opportuinities to discuss several real-world scenarios.

Wecome to culture shock

Who offers the helping hand?

Who has the problem?

Groups: Read Note

The hyperlinks are to articles from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire that do a much better job with the material than I have done.

Partially written and it's a mess.

Create Category

Select Enrollment Option

Name Groups

Enroll Users if needed

Link to Quiz Questions
Groups in Use

Classlist View By:

Enter Grades View By:

Folder Submissions View By:

Dropbox Group Submission folder: Every member shares the same grade

Creating Groups
Creating Restricted Workspaces

Restricted Dropboxes

From Dropboxes

Can be created as Group Submission folders

When created only, not edited

Each Dropbox is "Group Submission

Creates one Dropbox per Group

Restricted Discussions

From Discussions

From Groups

Creates one Discusssion Topic per Group

In one Forum or across multiple Forums

Releasing Content to specific Groups

Issue with Add Another

As for the "Add Another" button, we'll give $50.00 to the first person to explain clearly in writing what the button really does and why it is useful.

Onscren pompts guide you

Setting the Enrollment Type

Issue with automatic enrollment

When creating groups and calling for automatic enrollments, students do not get enrolled into the groups. Faith and I have both observed this issue.

Working With Groups

Planning and Setting the Number

When and Why to Use Groups

Managing and Motivating article

Using Groups in D2L

Encourage More "Intense" Discussions

Encourage Collaboration

Organize

Discussions

Quiz
Discussions and Community

Many to Many Communication

Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Introvert vs. Extravert

Participating in Discussions

Scripts targeted to both students and instructors

Settings for Discussions
Finding a Message
Discussion Tools
Tools for Composing or Replying
Quick Start Guide
Creating, Editing and Managing

Scripts targeted to the instructor.

Message Tools-Changing Student Messages

Edit, Copy, Assess, Delete, See History

Assessing by Individual Posts
Assessing Holistically
Copy, Re-Order, Delete and Display Topics and Forums
Discussion Settings
Managing Discussions

Clear insructions

Rubrics

Good Questions

Seeding

Responsiveness

Learning Moments

You are part of the community

Classroom Management

Dates

Hidden or Visible

Deletion

Locking

Governed by Terms of Use

Monitored

Polite, Positive, Scholarly

Organizing Discussions

Possible forum types

Possible oganizational schemes for Forums and Topics

Another Organization Scheme

Recommended Discussion Areas

To maintain order within your discussions, creating separate discussion areas (Desire2Learn Forums) is recommended. The number and names of discussions are influenced by your curricular objectives and structure within the class. In addition to the content-area discussions, we recommend that you also create the following discussion areas:

* Introductions

This is an area where the students can introduce themselves to their fellow classmates. This discussion area is especially helpful in online courses to help establish a sense of community.

* Student Lounge or Cyber Cafe

This is an area where the students can discuss non-course related issues. The actual name should be influenced by your discipline and course.

* Technical Questions

Establishing a technical questions area provides a place for the student to ask questions and look for answers. In many classes, the students will help each other.

* Reference Desk

This is an area where students can ask questions on where to find or how to use resources in the library relevant to their class assignments. Upon faculty request, this area can be monitored by library staff.

* Virtual Office

The virtual office provides a place for students to seek clarification about an assignment or request additional information. By posting these materials in the virtual office, all students can review the answers so the same question does not need to be responded to several times.

From http://www.uwec.edu/help/CMS/strg-disc.htm

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Creating Topics and Forums
Intro