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Personalizing Your Mastering Course!

Personalizing Your Mastering Course! . Scott Hildreth Astronomy & Physics – Chabot College – Hayward, CA. Simple Tips to Enhance Student Interest, Build Relevance, & Improve Success. Goals for Our Session. Why Edit? What are the Benefits? Ways to Customize Your Course

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Personalizing Your Mastering Course!

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  1. Personalizing Your Mastering Course! Scott Hildreth Astronomy & Physics – Chabot College – Hayward, CA Simple Tips to Enhance Student Interest, Build Relevance, & Improve Success

  2. Goals for Our Session • Why Edit? What are the Benefits? • Ways to Customize Your Course • Getting Started – Links, Messages • Simple Editor – Links, Hints, Images • Advanced Editor – Complete Control • Adding Your Questions! Your feedback & questions are welcome throughout! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  3. Let’s See an Example - 1 Live example of my physics class from last spring, showing one problem enhanced with a YouTube videoclip Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  4. Why Customize At All? • Mastering already offers a great range of Problems, Tutorials, Quizzes, & Media with • Dynamic, context-specific hints • Wrong & Right answer feedback • You can be successful without any extra work! But with some easy additions…. • You & your students can have even more success – and fun! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  5. Why Customize At All? • Remind students about… • Expected Units they might miss (Radians vs. Degrees) • Key Examples from Lecture or Text that will help • Attention to Tolerances & Sig Figs • Adjust problems… • Drop parts you want to skip • Add Hints to good End-of-Chapter Q’s • Import your own Questions & Problems Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  6. Use Mastering Data Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  7. Why Customize At All? • Review Most Missed Problems • Change Hints, Problem Statements • Add resource links, images, feedback • Experiment Next Term • Consider making questions/assignments as designated learning outcomes Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  8. Announcement Examples • Add contact information, and helpful instructions available right from the start of class with announcements Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  9. Announcement Examples • Reinforce HOW the student can use the system, and provide links for help Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  10. Message Examples • Add Messages to Assignments with instructions, caveats, gotcha’s, and encouragement Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  11. Message Examples Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  12. Link Examples • Add Hyperlinks to Assignments • Share videoclips, lecture links, and more Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  13. Let’s Try It - 1Messages & Links Live demonstration in my physics class, adding messages and links Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  14. Problem Examples • Add Hyperlinks to Problems quickly with the Simple Editor Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  15. Let’s Try It - 2Simple Editor Links Live demonstration in my physics class, adding a link to a problem Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  16. Hint Examples • Add Hints to Problems w/ Simple Editor Declarative Hints nudge students Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  17. Hint Examples Socratic Hints ask for students to answer Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  18. Let’s Try It - 3Simple Editor Hints/Parts Live demonstration in my physics class, adding a hint to a problem Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  19. Image Example • Add your own diagrams & parts to problems Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  20. Editing is NOT hard! • Simple Editor always available anywhere you log in Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  21. Advanced Editor • Complete control of everything, including • Variable values & Tolerances • Feedback for all questions • Adding images • Menu-based XML interface • More specific system req’s to use • Windows or Windows emulator • Visit online help for information Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  22. Advanced Editor • Easy to extend variable domains and steps Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  23. Advanced Editor • Easy to enhance wrong answer feedback Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  24. Importing Questions • Easy to import multiple choice/essay questions into Mastering • Follow standard format • Create/Save As “RTF” • Import into Item Library • Instantly start to collect statistics! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  25. Sample Import File Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  26. Let’s Try It – 4Importing Questions Illustrating how to import a simple set of questions into Mastering. Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  27. Getting Started! Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  28. Additional Ideas • Be patient, explore, & experiment! • Have students suggest YouTube clips they like specific to an assignment or problem • Give Extra Credit for the one(s) students found most helpful Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  29. Questions? Discussion? • Check out a resource list & research http://www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/mastering • Login to my classes to look around • Email me with questions! shildreth@chabotcollege.edu Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

  30. Cartoons…. Images reprinted in the online presentation and available online were borrowed with permission from "e-mail.this.book", The Cartoon Bank, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1996. Scott Hildreth - Chabot College - October 2010

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