Class-On-The-Go

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Solutions: Communication

You’ve probably noticed that all of my solutions have a similar first step: Contact Your Instructor. This can solve 99% of most class issues. But, what do you do when that is the issue?

The primary method of communication between online instructors and students is email. In order for this to be useful to students the instructor has to do two things:

Reply to emails.

Reply to them in a…

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Solutions: Disorganized Content

An online class can be disorganized in many ways, but this post will focus on the issue of disorganized content. In this context, content includes any and all of the materials found on the platform (i.e. D2L or Blackboard) for the students to use or learn from. Here are some examples:

assignment instructions, templates, or rubrics

discussion forums

dropboxes

readings, lecture slides, or videos

In…

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A Music Student Online

A Music Student Online

Hello, everyone! This week’s post is written by a guest author!

Hello, everyone! My name is Nathan, and I have been given the opportunity to write an article for this website! 

I am a music education student in college who has taken a few courses online. Some of these courses were for degree requirements, others were for electives in order to meet credit requirements for a particular semester. 

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Solutions: Flexibility

Generally, an online class’ flexibility is measured by the level at which a student can complete work at their own pace. Some flexibility restrictions are:

anything that forces the student to answer to someone else’s schedule

work not being accessible ahead of time so that a student may work ahead

assignments that require previous assignments to be graded before continuing

A certain level of…

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Solutions: Inconsistent Schedule

Previously I gave an example of what a bad online course schedule might look like. I’m going to bring that back for reference so that I can share some tips and options for dealing with it.

Discussion 1 – due by 4:00PM Tuesday Oct. 2

Discussion 2 – due by 8:30PM Saturday Oct. 13

Discussion 3 – due by 2:56 Wednesday Oct. 17

Journal 1 – due by 8:47AM Wednesday Oct. 3

Journal 2 – no date or time…

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Solutions: Unclear Expectations

So now that I’ve told you what makes an online class good, what should you do if you find yourself in a bad online class? Unclear expectations are a key attribute of a bad online class. For the mos…