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Course Syllabus

The instructor can revise the details on the syllabus page, or revise the syllabus template file by downloading it from the Google doc.

Designing Remote Assessments

Think of the large assessment items and how you'd like to deliver them remotely

Mini Assignments

What can you foster student's learning after watching the lecture videos or participating in a live online lecture? Offering a weekly mini-assignments can foster digital active learning and facilitate student's learning pace. Think of what students can engage with the content after watching the lecture videos, such as

(1) check-in YuJa questions in the video

(2) Canvas video quiz questions

(3) Canvas discussion

(4) short reflective/summary assignment

(5) assign the homework from the publisher's website

Discussion Board

The discussion board is a great tool to foster remote class interaction. Canvas discussion forum and Piazza are the popular discussion tools often used in a remote learning environment. You may want to consider creating a discussion rubric to evaluate a graded discussion assignment to enhance the quality of the discussion (Rubric sample 1, 2, and 3). When assigning a discussion board assignment, you may want to set up two deadlines - one for the initial post, and the other is for the peer feedback. You can also require an initial post to be submitted before viewing other's posts. You can also set it up as a group discussion or create a peer review discussion. The Canvas discussion board can also be used as a great class collaboration space that each student can share a non-text posting *such as web links, pictures,
video) of their work with the class. You can turn a discussion board into a digital gallery of student's contributions. The discussion features allow them to share and provide feedback with each other.

Major Assignments:

What kind of major assignments do you usually include in the assessment? Can the students work on these assignments and submit them remotely? Do you need to set it up as a turnitin assignment if it is writing-intensive? Can the students submit a picture of their written/drawing to a Canvas assignment? Can the students submit a video recording on Canvas to explain a concept or present a topic? Can students search on the Internet and collect information, photos, videos about a topic as part of the assignment or group projects?

Exams

Can the exams be set up as timed open book exams or replace them with the exam alternatives? If not, can you set the exams up as a Respondus exam on Campus? Currently, the online live proctoring vendors, such as Examity and ProctorU, are also suffered from the impact of COVID-19. Examity no longer can offer live proctoring starting on 3/22/2020, and it is unclear if ProctorU can maintain its operation throughout the spring quarter. Thus, we do NOT recommend faculty to create any proctored exam with Examity or ProctorU.

Class Participation (Lecture Videos)

It is recommended to assign some mini-assignments for students to interact with the content after watching the lecture videos. The work can be included as the class participation grade, and the instructors can monitor student's learning progress by grading their submissions. Three ways to post weekly lecture videos with mini-assignments:

Canvas Assignments

The instructor can ask a student to submit a short written summary or reflection after watching the video or create a no submission assignment.

Lecture Quiz

The instructor can post the lecture videos in the quiz instructions, and create a few questions for students to answer after watching the videos. Please note that the purpose of these quiz questions is to ensure students comprehend the lecture content.

Discussion Board

The instructor can embed a lecture video on a discussion board for students to exchange thoughts with each other, Consider setting up a due date for an initial post and a second due date for peer responses.