Snapshot
Your name, title, etc.: Dr. Missy Fraser, PhD, Assistant Professor
The school/department you teach for: COE, HHP
Discipline: Athletic Training
Class size: 11-100 students
I teach in our pre-rehab sciences UG program, so anatomy, cadaver, prevention and care of injuries, injury evaluation and rehabilitation courses. For our graduates I teach therapeutic intervention, injury evaluation, data collection and application using various techniques and technologies, and brain and spine evaluation techniques. Most of my courses are a flipped classroom approach where students read and take a quiz over the material before class.
My classes are very fast paced because we must cover 1-2 textbooks/semester. My overarching goal is that they learn the concepts and how to apply the material to real-life situations, rather than just memorizing terms. Most of their homework and exams are situational, even in my freshman class.
My UG prevention and care course is only meeting via Zoom once a week. I rarely lecture over the material “in person”. Instead we are using our time to do beam-Based learning exercises, where they are required to find articles/info before class and then they complete worksheets as a team that include general application questions and/or work through scenarios related to the chapters for that week.
My Grad class this semester is an in-person lecture (3 hrs.) and lab (2 hrs.) each week. We have to get through 2 full textbooks, so there isn’t a lot of extra time to review past material. Worksheets are due before I lecture on each chapter, and quizzes are due the day after. Both are used to help guide them during the lecture discussions and laboratory activities. Students also have bi-weekly Written Assignments that are meant to help them merge and apply the information that they have learned in the last 2 weeks or more. All these assignments are meant to help them get a deeper understanding of the material and prepare for their exams. Their exam format is very similar to their homework.
Tip #1: Announcements
Description: If you want to post a weekly announcement, about what students are doing each week or a reminder about an assignment, etc. You can write them all at the beginning of the semester and just click on “delay posting” and set the release date to the desired date.
Tip #2: Quizzes
Description: If you don’t want the students to see the answers until the quiz closes, you have to leave “Show answers” unchecked. Then after the quiz closes, you have to go back in and change it to “Let students see their quiz responses” and change the other settings as you see fit.
If you have students that have ODS accommodations, you can change the duration or number of times that they see a quiz AFTER you publish the quiz. To do that:
- Click on the quiz
- Click “Moderate this Quiz” on the right
- That should open up your roster.
- Then click on the box by the student’s name that requires alterations and then the pencil on the right
- That should allow you to add a number in the extra attempts box, or additional minutes. NOTE: the minutes you type in the box are the additional minutes, not the total minutes they will get.
- This is also how you can allow students to get additional attempts on quizzes/exams if something went wrong from an internet standpoint, etc. during their exam and you want to give them additional time or attempts. Depending on how you have your quiz set up, you may need to change the due date/time as well.
Tip #3: Modules
Description: If you don’t click the publish button at the top of each Module, it doesn’t matter if you published all the pages, assignments, quizzes, etc. in the Module, they can’t see what’s in the Module.
They can go to the individual tabs and find the materials, but not every student knows how to do that.
Tip #4: Mastery Paths
Description: If you are using “pages” in your Mastery Paths, there is a box at the bottom of the each “page” that you have to check that says “allow in mastery paths”.
Editor’s Note: Mastery Paths is an advanced tool. For more information, click here.
Tip #5: Images
Description: If you don’t publish the images, they can’t see them in the quizzes, pages, etc.
If you have a folder with images that will be used on exams/quizzes, you can change the “publish” on that file to “only available to students with a link”. That way they can see them only when they are in the quiz, but not if they search the file. You still need to publish the individual image inside that file though! If you don’t publish the image, it doesn’t matter if you published the file it’s in or not.
If you use images in your quizzes/exams and the students are using an audio tool or they move the cursor over the image and hold it, they can see the image name. I have named all of my images in such a way that allows me to find them easily, but the name would often give them the answer to the question. If you have the same issue, you can do this when you are linking the file to your questions:
- Write your question.
- Click in the question box where you want the image to be situated.
- Click on “embed image”
- Select the image that you want (URL, Canvas, Flicker)
- There is a box called “Alt Text”, in that box type something other than the real name, like” image 1″.
- Change the dimensions if you want here, or you can change them in the quiz by grabbing the corner and making it bigger/smaller.
- Then hit “Update”.
- The image should be imbedded in your question, but not its name.
Editor’s note: This tip fixes the alt text, but not the name of the file. If students know how to use the developer tools, they will still be able to see the name of the file, if they are determined to find clues to the correct answers. Because of this, you may consider renaming each image in “Files”.