Wiki Page, ART100 #65264 Online (Spring 2019): Communication Plan

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2019-01-28T12:22:12-08:00

I will communicate with you (and you with me!) in various ways throughout this course:

General Course Discussion Board

First, and most importantly, we will all use the General Course Questions discussion board for any question about the course. I expect you to check this discussion throughout the week for messages from classmates and to respond accordingly. Questions might include things like clarifying when an assignment is due, wondering where to find information on a topic, setting up study teams, inquiring what others have discovered on a particular topic, etc.

This allows us all to see one another's questions and anyone to respond. We can't all be monitoring our course 24/7, but collectively we can work together to ask, answer, and clarify one another's questions.

Announcements

I will send information out to you about things such as updates on the course, summaries of my observations on your discussion posts, reminders about assignment deadlines, etc. on at least a weekly basis. I expect you to check these announcements throughout the week as well.

Email, Phone, Office

Contact me this way only for personal questions or issues such as grades, having to miss a deadline due to a medical issue, etc.

Email fosmire_edward@sac.edu
Office Location C-107
Office Hours TBA

Discussion Board Assignments Feedback

You won't find responses from me to each or most of your posts, but I will be reading them. I will contribute to redirect if necessary or to ask additional questions. More often, I will provide holistic feedback to your collective contributions to the discussion through an announcement. In it, I may point out particularly insightful contributions, note errors in logic, summarize common themes, and connect your responses back to our course objectives.

Written Assignments Feedback

You will find my feedback on written assignments typically in the Comments field in your Grades page. Click on the title link above for other ways (depending on the assignment) I might provide feedback to you. My goal is to give you feedback on written assignments within two days of the beginning of the week following the assignment due date or before those assignments are needed for a subsequent task (if in the same week).

Communicating Assignment Requirements

For assignments such as Discussions, projects, essays, etc. I have provided two communications for ensuring you know what to do and how to successfully complete it: the first are written instructions, which you will find either in a Canvas page, in a downloadable document and/or in the instruction section of the assignment. Additionally, I have provided a rubric that details the assignment requirements and point value. You can find the rubric associated with a given assignment by clicking on the three dots in the upper right of the assignment window and selecting "View Rubric". For a preview of these steps see How do I view the rubric for my assignments? at the Canvas guides site.

Quizzes and Tests

These typically are automatically graded so that you receive feedback immediately and can identify gaps in your knowledge base before moving to the next module. Always take advantage of any opportunity to re-take quizzes; the goal is for you to actually learn this stuff, not to "catch" you at what you don't know!