Quality Matters Boot Camp 2016

Use the Quality Matters rubric and Standards 2, 3, & 4 to help guide your course development

Create measurable course-level and unit-level objectives

Discuss appropriate assessment strategies in your course course and discipline

Use a variety of formative and summative assessment methods to maximize your picture of how students are doing

Alignment and orienting your students to the learning tasks is VERY important

Use this formula: Audience: who are the learners? Behavior: what do you want to be able to observe them

doing? Condition: under what conditions will they do this? Degree: to what degree must they perform to be

successful? For example: After the course, students will be able to

discuss at least three major outcomes from the American Civil War, including social and political implications.

This stuff helps you find and create the most appropriate assessments!

http://cstep.csumb.edu/Obj_tutorial/bloomwheel.html

Thinking skill

Action verbs

Student products

Type of Objective How to Measure

Discuss/Recall/Identify Discussion board, summary paper, objective test

Apply/Use Essay or fill-in test, labs, report paper

Analyze Problem-solving, analysis paper, case studies, presentations

Create/Design Research paper, creative essays, art, prototypes, plans, student-created tests, presentations

Evaluate/Judge Journals, case studies, debates, peer review, critiques

Make sure that the information that you’re testing students on it directly related to what students are supposed to know and be able to do

Nice-to-know information is great, but shouldn’t be included if it’s not directly tied to an objective

Make sure your assessment matches the level of the objective and is not above or below the students’ skill level

Multimedia effect: words and pictures are more powerful than words alone

Continuity: related words and pictures should be near each other onscreen

Personalization: students learn better from more informal, conversational styles

Coherence: Extraneous or “nice to know” information does not help student learning

Modality: Students learn better when their visual channel is not overloaded (words as speech rather than onscreen text)

Prezi – for the cool factor VoiceThread – for the interactive and

collaborative factor The Video Express Room (LSF 253): put on a

live presentation in hi-def! Camtasia: record and edit screencasts from

anywhere (including from Video Express) Check out

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Presentation+Tools for many more choices

Sometimes, a video is needed to show crucial concepts and demonstrations

Luckily, the Internet is full of wonderful videos for all sorts of subject areas

Mashups

Embed Flickr Content (photos)

Embed a YouTube Video

Embed a Slide Share presentation

Embed xpLor content

Embed Kaltura content (your own videos)

ECHO360

Live Available for streaming on-

demand about 24 hours after the recording

Can be scheduled for your class time – no button pressing!

Share one link with students for the whole semester

Example of Echo360: http://163.245.1.110:8080/ess/portal/section/ed51c2d7-4906-4d27-9f84-ce599daedee4

CAMTASIA / VIDEO EXPRESS

Pre-recorded Captures everything on the

screen, plus voice and camera Excellent for presentations,

or showing students how to do a task on the computer

Can take video of any portion of the screen that you wish

Can be uploaded directly to YouTube or saved for uploading into Kaltura/BlackBoard

Find out if Echo is in your classroom: http://centers.pnw.edu/teaching/echo-360/

Get your account set up: email echoadmin@pnw.edu or fill out a ticket request

Echo can be automatically scheduled to come on when you are teaching, and shut off when you’re done

Each session has a unique link but are all assembled at your EchoCenter, which has one link

Great for online classes, or flipped classrooms (students watch your lecture outside of class, then come to class ready for activities)

Record everything that’s happening onscreen, then edit and publish to Blackboard or YouTube

Camtasia makes this process easy – record from your desk

You can make high-def videos in the Video Express Room (LSF-253) and edit in Camtasia later

Purdue has a university license for you to have Camtasia in your office and on your home machine (Mac and Windows)

Visit http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/camtasia/ to download the license request form and wait approximately 24-48 hours for response

You will be able to download from a secure Filelocker the Camtasia version of your choice, along with SnagIt – a great tool for capturing and editing still, single-frame screen captures

Mayer’s multimedia theory: http://www.learning-theories.com/cognitive-theory-of-multimedia-learning-mayer.html

Common but questionable principles of multimedia learning: http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/clark_five_common.pdf

10 Tools to Flip Your Class (tip: most are screen-capture related!): http://electriceducator.blogspot.com/2011/04/10-tools-to-help-you-flip-your.html

Flipped class best practices: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-best-practices-andrew-miller

Quizzes and tests Discussion forums Rubrics for the creation of:

Writing assignments

Multimedia (text + images, video, etc)

Presentation tools

Digital video and audio

E-books, wikis, blogs

Can be mobile-capable or browser-only Can be supported through Respondus

LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor You can create tests from scratch or import from

Respondus Test Generator (or other tools) Test exceptions settings allow different options

for different students (like extra time) See https://centers.pnw.edu/teaching/learn-

tutorials/ for all videos on tests See http://cetners.pnw.edu/teaching/respondus

for info on downloading Respondus

Edit the Test Options -check your settings

Do NOT turn on Force Completion!

Use Test Availability Exceptions for make-ups and accommodations

Auto-Submit is ok –forces the student to stop when timer ends

Decide on options for how and whether students can receive feedback

Need help with the text for your rubric?

Try rubric-makers that make your job easier!

Rubistar:http://rubistar.4teachers.org

iRubric:http://www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm

You can grade using rubrics right within BlackBoard Rubrics make your job a little easier when grading

more extensive assessments Video tutorials available:

https://centers.pnw.edu/teaching/learn-tutorials/

Use the left-hand sidebar and choose Needs Grading to view when new work has been turned in

Alternately, in the Full Grade Center, ungraded work submitted will have a “!” icon

Allows you to see all grades at a glance –works like a spreadsheet

You can create columns for various purposes, including calculated columns

Use the Manage button to change column organization

Use the “arrow-menus” to change settings, view and edit grades

BlackBoard discussion, blog, wiki, Kaltura media tools WebEx: http://purdue.webex.com Google Docs: http://drive.google.com Prezi: http://www.prezi.com MS Office Templates: http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/templates/ Screencast-o-matic: http://www.screencast-o-

matic.com Jing and Camtasia: http://www.techsmith.com Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.com SimpleBooklet: http://simplebooklet.com/index-

edu.php Draw.io: https://www.draw.io

Carnegie-Mellon Assessment resource: http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/howto/basics/index.html

Writing good learning objectives: http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/id/developObjectives.asp

Kathy Schrock’s guide for educators: http://www.schrockguide.net/assessment-and-rubrics.html

Reach us at: atrekles@pnw.edu

http://centers.pnw.edu/teaching for all workshop notes, links, and training needs