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Assessment and Evaluation in Your Online Course - Carolina Online Teacher Program
This course is an elective in the Carolina Online Teacher Program.
Begins June 18
During this course, you’ll focus on the issues online instructors face in creating quality online activities and assessments by providing a collection of resources and exercises that define the assessment process. You’ll move from planning to creating and using engaging online assessments that produce the desired student learning in your online course.
Prerequisites
- Blackboard or Moodle Training or approved substitute
- Teaching Online Courses
- Facilitating Online Collaboration
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, your new skills and knowledge will include the following:- Understand the essential elements of online assessments
- Design a variety of quality online assessments
- Evaluate a set of examples of effective online student assessment activities
- Provide effective feedback to students in an online environment
- Identify online resources to develop additional online student assessments
- Learn methods of creating and using engaging online assessments that produce the desired student learning
- Identify the issues involved in online assessment
- Understand how to determine student achievement of objectives
- Analyze and identify components of quality activities and assessments
- Create activities and assessments
- Create quality learning objectives
- Design student self-assessments, online activities, and assessments to achieve learning objectives
- Collaborate with, provide and give feedback, and critique classmates during creation of all products
- Collaborate with classmates on how to provide and receive constructive student assessment feedback
- Maintain a set of resources, reflections on learning, and peer knowledge in your personal journal
Materials required
None
Take this course!
This course is scheduled to be taught beginning June 18.
It will be open for enrollment until July 14 or until maximum enrollment has been met.