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Faculty Name | Section | Semester

Welcome, Students!

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Faculty: This Course site uses an organizational structure to help faculty meet the recommended best practices outlined on our Teaching with the OpenLab guide. This editable welcome post demonstrates how you can share announcements with your students. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students. For help working with OpenLab Course sites, visit OpenLab Help.

Please take some time to explore this OpenLab course site. Use the menu to explore the course information, activities, and resources. As the course progresses, you will be adding your own work to the Student Posts section.

Join this Course

Login to your OpenLab account and follow these instructions to join this course.

If you’re new to the OpenLab, follow these instructions to create an account and then join the course.

Remember that your username and display name can be pseudonyms, rather than your real name. Your avatar does not need to be a picture of your face–just something that identifies you on the OpenLab.

Questions

If you have any questions, reach out via email or in Office Hours. If you need help with the OpenLab, you can consult OpenLab Help or contact the OpenLab Community Team.

Class 1 Agenda (Example)

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Faculty: This Class Agenda post demonstrates how you can provide detailed information about each class for your students. It uses the category “Class Agendas” and can be found under Activities > Class Agendas in the site menu. Use the suggested outline below to structure your class posts. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students. For help working with OpenLab Course sites, visit OpenLab Help.

Class Info

  • Date: Add date
  • Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location

To-Do Before Class

Add the tasks (readings, homework, assignments) students need to do before this class, along with any materials they will need. 

Topic

Add topic here

Objectives

Add learning objectives and outcomes here

In Class Activities

Add the information covered in this class (class activities, readings, videos, slides, notes, recordings of class meetings conducted via web conference). 

To-Do After Class

Add the tasks (readings, homework, assignments) students need to do after this class, along with any materials they will need. 

Discussion: Introductions

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Faculty: Below is a recommended activity that helps build community in your class and introduces your students to commenting as a form of class discussion. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students. Learn more about managing comments in OpenLab Help.

Please add a comment to this post introducing yourself to the class. You could include your academic interests, why you chose your major, what you enjoy reading, listening to, watching, and doing in your spare time, or anything else you want to share (include your pronouns, if you wish).

Before next class, please add your introduction and read the comments.

Get to know your classmates! Reply to one of your classmates’ comments. Do you have something in common? Did you learn something? Be kind.

Student Survey

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Faculty: You can use this survey to understand the technology and working spaces available to your students when they are working off-campus. To use this survey in your course, please add a due date and make any other changes you wish. View the survey responses in the Dashboard > Forms > Entries. For help using surveys and quizzes, follow the instructions in OpenLab Help. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

  • Please tell me about the technology and working space that you have available to complete your coursework. Feel free to share any additional information in the last question box. All responses are private.

  • *Required
  • Credits: This survey is based on a survey created by Maura Smale and Mariana Regalado.

Student Post (Example)

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Faculty: This example student post and comment demonstrate how students can contribute and collaborate on this course site. Please switch this example post to “Draft” or delete it when you are ready to share your site with your students. For help working with OpenLab Course sites, visit OpenLab Help.

Student Posts

Students can create posts to respond to assignments, submit work, and share ideas. Students must create an account on the OpenLab and join this course before they are able to write posts.

Categories

Students should give their posts the category “Student Work”; all posts in this category will appear under “Student Work”, with the most recent post first. Faculty can create additional categories for students to use, e.g. “Assignment 1 Posts” to help organize student work.

Commenting

Students are encouraged to comment on each other’s posts to facilitate discussion and provide peer-to-peer feedback. Scroll down to see the example comment associated with this post.

Assignment 1 Instructions (Example)

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Faculty: This example post demonstrates how you can provide instructions for each assignment. It uses the category “Assignment Instructions” and can be found under Activities > Assignments in the site menu. Use the suggested outline below to structure your assignment posts. Please delete this informational block when you are ready to share your site with your students. For help working with OpenLab Course sites, visit OpenLab Help.

Overview

Add assignment overview or description

Learning Outcomes

  • Add learning outcomes

Due Date(s)

  • Add due dates or schedule

Instructions

  1. Add assignment instructions

Grading Rubric

Add grading rubric or clear explanation of how assignment will be graded.

Resources

  • Add assignment resources or readings

License

Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

Unless otherwise noted, this site has a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license. Learn more.

OpenLab Support

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The OpenLab team offers a selection of Help materials, Open Hours, and support via email.

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