Interested in Teaching Online » Module 3: Check Your Understanding

Effective practices for planning and developing an online course take these three core things into consideration:
- Content, interaction, and assessment.
- Discussion forums, virtual meetings, and mobile devices.
- Blended, hybrid, and web-enhanced courses.
- Timing, placement, and grading rubrics.
Assessment refers to learner performance, and serves to help us decide if/what our students are learning and where improvements in learning are needed.
- True
- False
Which of the following can you do to manage student expectations in an online course?
- Letting your students know how they will be graded, and when they can expect grades and feedback from you.
- Incorporating individual and peer feedback on all course assignments in a timely manner.
- Creating and sharing grading rubrics for all assignments, letting students know what is considered to be good, better, and best.
- All of the above.
Which of the following strategies can help instructors manage their online course workload?
- Create a course blog.
- Explore social media and create an online Facebook page.
- Foster group dynamics by establishing a student peer-review process.
- Encourage dialogue by asking students to post daily to the course discussion forums.
The two federal laws that govern program and course access for all students are:
- The W3CAG Disability Accommodations Act and the American Copyright Act.
- Rightful Access for Students Act and Section 209 of the Online Course Access Act.
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- None of the above.
Which of the following is not a core principle of Universal Design?
- Provide multiple means of learning approaches
- Provide multiple means of action and expression
- Provide multiple means of representation.
- Provide multiple means of engagement

Module 3: Check Your Understanding

Check your understanding of the topics covered in this module.

Module 3 Check Your Understanding