Technology Serving Learning Winter 2004 Institute
Mechanics of Teaching Online in Spring 2004
1:00 - 4:45 PM, Monday, January 12, 2004
Dave Starrett
Topics:
  • Creating an OIS Class
    • Downloading students
    • New Manager features
  • New Southeast Keys Emails
    • Changeover
    • Implications to teaching online
    • Potential problems
  • Best Practices
Sample best practices
  1. Editing student work in Microsoft Word

    We could accept term papers, formal reports, and other essay-style work through e-mail attachments. Using OIS Dropbox, however, offers some important advantages. Regardless of the delivery system, Microsoft Word offers several ways to edit student work.
     
  2. E-mail etiquette
     
    1. Set up a folder for each class in your e-mail client, and get in the habit of moving each class-related e-mail to the folder as soon as you have acted on it. This gives you an archive of e-mail traffic - invaluable for resolving grade disputes, etc!
    2. Studies show that students expect a response to an e-mail within 24-48 hours. Don't let e-mails "pile up".
    3. Create and use a signature file that includes contact info.
    4. When sending a batch of e-mails to your class, put e-mail addresses in the BCC line. DO NOT use CC, because some e-mail facilities will shunt the e-mail to a junk file or Spam file if there are many names in the CC line. Also, since addresses in the CC line are visible to all recipients, you will be giving out the student's email addresses to each other; some do not want their address distributed like that. 
    5. Warn students about spam filtering and full email accounts:
      1. Some ISPs filter spam email.  Forwarding email from a SEKey account to an external email address will open the possibility that email addresses you send will be filtered and the student will not see them.
      2. SEKey email inboxes have a maximum capacity.  If student don't keep up-to-date with their emails (deleting old messages, empty the deleted messages box, etc.), messages you send them may bounce back from a full email account.
         
  3. Sample Course Website (UI100-73 Spring 04)
     
  4. Online Best Practices
     
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