For Your Students

Readiness Surveys and Articles--For Students Who Register for Online Courses

You may want to consider exploring these surveys and selecting one that you find most useful for your incoming students. Put the link into your initial mailing and/or an initial announcement. Stress that students take the survey to learn whether the online option is really for them.

http://www.elearnersadvisor.com/index.asp

http://www.it.armstrong.edu/dlassess.htm

http://www.onlinelearning.net/OLE/holwselfassess.html?s=522.1060x944a.022i001331

http://www.chat-tec.com/elearning/ol_quiz.aspx

http://www.icn.org/studentservices/success.html (Article with links on how to become a successful online student)

Learning Styles--For Students

http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.cgi (Survey)

http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/ionresources/instructionaldesign/learningstyles.asp (Article with links and study tips)

Welcome letters, logging in, navigating, code of conduct, etc.-- These are Word documents that you can download and customize for use with your own students.

RIGHT-click the links below to "Save Target As..." and download/print the Word handouts you want:

Dear Technical Reporting Student (Welcome letter sample)

Use the buttons to "navigate" your way around the course (Guide to navigating inside a Blackboard course--makes a good announcement)

Code of Conduct (Dar Debruin-Hein's Code of Conduct for classroom and online courses--thanks for sharing, Dar!)

Attention ~ Students using FVTC e-mail accounts Instructions and information for INSTRUCTORS to use as an Announcement in their BB courses. This information directs students to the FVTC site for the steps they need to take to activate their FVTC e-mail accounts.

Student guide to submitting work in an Assignment item in Blackboard (Help for students when you use the Assignment feature in Content Areas)

Student Tips: Locating Archived Discussions in the Discussion Board (Help for students when you have archived discussions during the semester)

Troubleshooting Tips for Students  Handout for students who need help with getting into BB, finding their courses, or changing their password.

FAQs for HelpDesk and Students (Answers to basic questions often asked by students)

Saving Docs as RTF Thanks to Jerry Antoon for this "how to" on saving documents created in Works and WordPerfect as rich text files (which retain formatting) so they're able to be opened and edited in Word.