Encouraging Online Interaction with Students

Presentation by : Ms Uzma Awan

Online Quizzes

• If you use them as pop-up quizzes at the end of a presentation, chances that students remember what the course was about raise considerably.

• You can find a tool to create complex online quizzes that will answer all your needs and results will probably improve immediately.

• Working with custom made quizzes is easier that to search for premade ones.

• Online quizzes are a great way to keep your students focused, to evaluate them and offer them the chance to test their assimilation capacity.

Feedback Forms

• Feedback is a great way to find what students actually think of your course.

• The odds that they will fill such a form are higher if you allow respondents to remain anonymous either if you have personally met them or not.

• You can focus on data and put your efforts in finding what is relevant for improvement of your online course.

Surveys

• You can apply them to discover the general opinion of your class, to learn about new trends and better adapt your teaching style or prepare new courses.

• Online surveys will generate statistical data that can help you reach further and understand the needs and requirements of present and future students.

• These are perfect for research, especially if you desire to create a new course and test the water to see if there is a demand from students.

Polls

• Conduct regular voting and let students participate in decision making.

• For example, let them choose the projects they are about to do or the topic you will discuss on a special lecture.

• There are many variations, the important thing is to enable them to feel they are actually part of the course you are teaching and that their opinion actually matters.

• If you don’t have the luxury of adjusting the course as you go, you can add ratings to your course with grades or rating stars to learn an immediate reaction of your students.