PreSurvey Online Course Design

Background Survey

Welcome to our online course on online course design. We have designed this survey to help us get to know you a bit better so we can tailor the course content and activities to better meet the needs and expectations of students in this particular cohort. We also want to take advantage of the expertise you bring to the course, so groups will be created to work together on assignments in some units and your answers will help to ensure a diversity of experience within each group. We need to ask your name to create the groups, but please be assured that your answers will not be shared except in summary form and your answers will not be used to evaluate you in any way. Text answers will not be shared. Once a majority of students have answered the questions we will make a summary of the answers available so you get to know the "shape" of your cohort.

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Please indicate your experience teaching online or partially online courses. I have taught:

fully online courses

hybrid/blended courses (half or more of the content delivered online)

web-enhanced courses (all face-to-face meetings with some content & assignments delivered online)

none of the above

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* 3. Please self-evaluate your expertise in Canvas:

Expert: Can use collaborations, conferences, quizzes and everything listed below

Intermediate: Can use files, pages, gradebook & announcements and everything listed below

Beginner: Can use modules, discussions and assignments

Novice: little or no experience using Canvas

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* 4. Please self-evaluate your web technology expertise:

Expert: I have students create course content with some of the following: wikis, blogs, online video, prezi, vimeo, google docs, voicethread, etc.

Intermediate: I integrate some of the following into my course: dropbox, google docs, blogs, prezi, wikis, voicethread

Beginner: I use some of the following: online video, youtube, publisher materials

Novice: I link to external web pages

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* 5. In most of my courses I include learning objectives for:

The course

The topics or units of the course

Individual assignments

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* 6. Please describe the course you are thinking of putting fully online and indicate if you have already taught the class as a fully online course. How many students typically take the class? What year are they? Are they majors?

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* 7. Describe the culminating project or type of assessments you use to ascertain achievement of key course objectives.

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* 8. Students who typically do poorly in the class listed above seem to lack:

Key background knowledge

Organizational and time management skills

Study and learning skills

Persistence and effort

Self-confidence

Essential cognitive abilities

Other (please specify)

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* 9. The course listed above could use some work in:

Engaging students- making it more interactive/fun

Providing useful feedback

Alignment of course objectives, assignments and assessments

Leveraging groups and discussions

Teaching students how to learn

Developing fair, transparent grading policies

Chunking units into discrete topics

Creating learning cycles

Organization/navigation on Canvas

Clarity of expectations on assignments

Embracing diversity

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* 1. Name

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* 2. Please indicate your experience teaching online or partially online courses. I have taught:

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* 3. Please self-evaluate your expertise in Canvas:

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* 4. Please self-evaluate your web technology expertise:

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* 5. In most of my courses I include learning objectives for:

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* 6. Please describe the course you are thinking of putting fully online and indicate if you have already taught the class as a fully online course. How many students typically take the class? What year are they? Are they majors?

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* 7. Describe the culminating project or type of assessments you use to ascertain achievement of key course objectives.

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* 8. Students who typically do poorly in the class listed above seem to lack:

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* 9. The course listed above could use some work in:

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* 10. Please add any additional information that would help us help you and get to know you.