Enhanced Content
with Mastering
Tips to Encourage
Student Success
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Today’s students….
Wireless hot spot? Wireless hot spot??
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Today’s students….
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Our Students…
Online, Mobile, Social, Hyper (linked)
 Visual, Video-friendly
 Willing to learn, but….
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 Less
time for homework?
 Less patience for questions?
 Less comprehension for reading?
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An “Aha”
moment
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Using Results
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Mastering Captures Data
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Adding Content
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General
Customized HomePage
 Announcements (coming)
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Assignment/Problem Specific
Informational messages & Notes
 Simple Edits
 Advanced Edits
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Enhancements are NOT hard
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Adding Content
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Informational Messages
Assignment Instructions
 Caveats & Reminders
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Simple Edits
Additional text
 Hyperlinks to YouTube, Audio, Background
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Advanced Edits
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Additional Hints, Parts, Solutions etc.
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Annotating Assignments
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Annotating Assignments
Example of redirecting students to
key concepts and techniques
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Annotating Assignments
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“Add Message” in Organize Content Window
Select Item, then “Add Message Above”
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Annotating Assignments
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Add hypertext with html coding
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Direct to preparatory or remedial help
BEFORE/After a problem
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Editing Problems
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Start with a COPY of the problem
Simple Editor – no coding needed
Easy to add hyperlinks (no HTML)
 Easy to add parts
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Advanced Editor – XML coding templates
Add hints
 Add wrong-answer feedback
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Simple Edits: Adding Hyperlinks
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Advanced Editor
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Adding parts
Adding Hints
Enhancing Feedback
Correcting Algorithm Errors
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Enhancing Wrong-Answer Feedback
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Advanced Editor
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Adding explanations for existing wrong answers:
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Summary
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Enhancing Content is totally optional
Great for “Student Learning Outcome” cycle
See what they missed
 Add hints, redirection, feedback
 Re-assign as preparatory material for exams
 Use in subsequent terms
 See if students do better
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Experimenting
on our
students!
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Questions?
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Help for Editors is a click away
Email me! shildreth@chabotcollege.edu
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