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There are many strategies to increase engagement in your online classes, such as\u00a0<\/span><\/span>frequent discussion board posts, blogs or wikis, collaboratively authored documents,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>shared<\/span> chat spaces. <\/span>These activities\u00a0<\/span>create<\/span>\u00a0more\u00a0<\/span>familiarity among the students and may <\/span>also allow you to\u00a0<\/span>identify<\/span> patterns in writing styles, levels of achievement, basic content knowledge, and typical types of interaction specific to each of your students.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You can use the features of the LMS to create self-graded quizzes or exams, which provide automatic feedback and can be taken multiple times. Remember also to check students\u2019 level of engagement with your materials using the\u00a0<\/span>use<\/span>\u00a0monitoring features of your LMS. For example, Brightspace’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Class Progress<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0allows you to track access for a given item in your course, and view statistics on access by date, day of the week, and time, as well as by user (student and non-student users).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here are some additional suggestions:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Brightspace Discussion Forums and Topics <\/b><\/a>is a versatile tool. You can integrate a rubric and link directly to your course\u2019s grade book.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Web-based versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have collaborative functions. They can be used as stand-alone tools, within Office 365, or via a link in your Brightspace course<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||1px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n A digital whiteboard is a<\/span>\u00a0web-based\u00a0<\/span>collaboration<\/span>\u00a0platform<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>that can be used\u00a0<\/span>synchronously or asynchronously. Most digital whiteboards allow the user to sketch and annotate; insert shapes, text, sticky notes, images, and video<\/span>\u00a0link<\/span>s.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here\u00a0<\/span>are<\/span>\u00a0some whiteboard options:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For more information, see this\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Digital whiteboard and collaboration tool comparison guide<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||1px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Engaging Your Online Class There are many strategies to increase engagement in your online classes, such as\u00a0frequent discussion board posts, blogs or wikis, collaboratively authored documents,\u00a0and\u00a0shared chat spaces. These activities\u00a0create\u00a0more\u00a0familiarity among the students and may also allow you to\u00a0identify patterns in writing styles, levels of achievement, basic content knowledge, and typical types of interaction specific […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"page_category":[],"wf_page_folders":[164],"class_list":["post-12141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/cetll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Brightspace<\/h2>\n
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