Albert Alexander

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Establishing relationships and Identifying students at risk

Since I am an adjunct with only a cell phone, when I call a student, they learn my home phone. Of the sixty calls that I have made to students, I have never encountered a problem with a student who knows my home phone number. I do resolve most issues by email. We have live chats available in our LMS but we do not have efficient two way audio. I use the live chat to show a visual and talk concurrently by phone.

Albert Alexander

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Establishing relationships and Identifying students at risk

I have two types of emails and social networks; personal and business. I provide students with my business emails but students are allowed to contact me by phone. Since I cannot record phone messages, verification of the contenti not adequate. My institution does not encourage private phone conversations with student; yet, my institution does not prohibit personal phone conversations.

Albert Alexander

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Academic Honesty and Submitting previously submitted assignments

Thank you for the suggestion to request a copy of the previouse version. But I must ask my Lead Fauculty (my supervisor) if I can request that as a requirement under our current policy. Excellent suggestion. Albert

Albert Alexander

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Distinguishing quantity from quality of posts in an evaluation

Do you believe that the developer or originator of the assignment should set requirements for minimum number of posts for a discussion board assignment? ( for an online course) (Distinguish this requirement from the LMS requirement of a minimum number to log-ins during a module or unit.) .)

Albert Alexander

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Academic Honesty and Submitting previously submitted assignments

My responsibilities for classes concerns principles...I do not usually have time in the syllabus to include good literature research skills I do spend time on proper citation and the justification for valid research findings.

Albert Alexander

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The Components of a Rubric

I attempt to set quality standards by providing examples of what I will not accept as a substantive post. I admit that judging if a post is substantive post is subjective. If I do remove points, I provide formative feedback validate my evaluation.

Albert Alexander

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The Components of a Rubric

My question concerned the balance between quantity and quality. I do not prepare the assignments. I am not allowed to "add" or "subtract" from the assignment. Example: two posts are required as stated in the assignment. A student posts twice with the same question directed at two different students. I reply to this student to request their reasoning for asking the question. In short I am challenging the contribution of the second posting of the same question. Some of my colleagues argue that the tasks has been addressed but I argue that the quality for the second post is very… >>>

Albert Alexander

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A twist on communication

As you see when I request information such as for APA or information to clarify a comment, the student considers that a "post"; I do not. That post is a correction to the student's original comment. Depending upon how the grading rubrics is written and how the online assignment is written, a student could consider the 10 posts to complete the main post as 10 separate contributions. Some students consider the number of posts as the only method to judge participation. I engage students to consider that the quality is as important.

Albert Alexander

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Distinguishing quantity from quality of posts in an evaluation

How do you engage students to distinguish between the importance of the number of responses and comments from the importance of the quality of the comment? Are there any circumstances where the quantity of responses should carry more weight than the quality of responses?

Albert Alexander

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The role of the adviser

Each institution has an organization plan. How do your advisers assist you in retention and encouraging students to participate?