COURSE HOME - Ocean County College...The Gradebook also tracks and visually indicates what students had already mastered in the Path Builder, under “Mastered on Assessment”, how

Upon entering their online course, students see their MyFoundationsLab Course Home (depicted below). In this area students can easily access their “Next Activity” they should work on.

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PATH BUILDERTo begin their coursework in MyFoundationsLab, students answer a series of content questions in their Path Builder; a content questionnaire that constructs a tailored lesson plan based on current knowledge in the subject matter. It will let the students know which modules and topics need to be worked on and others they have already mastered in the Path Builder.


Once students complete their Path Builder, student can now begin coursework in MyFoundationsLab. Their main starting point is the Learning Path. This will list activities for which they have not mastered in the Path builder. Student follows the modules indicated in the learning path. Module-by-module they begin to “master” each activity: overview, recall, practice, apply. These are a combination of lectures and exercises. Both are subject to tracking whether if student has attended each.

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Content items, “Overview”, come in a variety of formats: video lectures, text with audio enabled.

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When a student attends to the “Overview” it is automatically marked as visited.

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Exercises such as recall, practice, and apply are graded, tracked, offering three attempts to students. Student can check answers in these practice exercises.

EXERCISES


In a variety of exercises, student is coached on how to reach the correct answer. This is not the case in Post-tests, the final assessment for each topic that evaluates mastery.

FEEDBACK


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Each topic concludes with a post-test assessing whether student has achieved mastery after attending all activities. Student has unlimited attempts to take post-tests.

MASTERY


The MFL Gradebook marks each graded item with a score or an “M”.”M” indicates an item that students had already mastered as evaluated by their Path Builder questionnaires.

GRADEBOOK


The Gradebook also tracks and visually indicates what students had already mastered in the Path Builder, under “Mastered on Assessment”, how many modules and topics they were assigned to work on towards mastery, including how many have been complete and the remaining that still need to be studied.

GRADEBOOK


In the screenshot below, there are 10 topics marked as “Needs study” on the left list. The activities area to the right contains a star marking RW1.15 Animation as mastered. This indicates the student has attended to this item. !The order of activities simulate instructional scaffolding gradually guiding students from ground zero to the desired learning goals.

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Animations also provide a summary of important items that were covered by the preceding Overview items.

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Animation items are narrated videos that go over the main important points of a specific activity such as “Reading Textbooks”.

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The narrated animations are accompanied by closed-captions (cc).

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Content in MyFoundationsLab makes use of current topics to bridge new information to a familiar event.

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Recalls are multiple choice quizzes designed to help student refresh newly learned information. quizzes. Practice Exercise, on the other hand, require a higher order of thinking skills.

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In Practice Exercises, students get an opportunity to practice for Post-tests and also gain an explanatory feedback on the choice selected. If an answer is selected wrong, students can re-watch the Animation related to the topic at hand.

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After students revisit the related Animation they can immediately reattempt the question in Practice exercises. Feedbacks for correct answers also include explanations.

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Practice Exercises provide students access to helpful resources such as Animation, Glossary, Ask my Instructor, and Print. This is not the case for Post-tests where the “Check Answer” option isn’t available as well.

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Topic in Reading such as highlighting.

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Topic in Reading such as mapping.

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COURSE HOME - Ocean County College...The Gradebook also tracks and visually indicates what students had already mastered in the Path Builder, under “Mastered on Assessment”, how