Melanie Wenrick, an Instructor from Fresno State, provides a clean easy to follow home page that provides for accessible image buttons used for the syllabus, weekly, and discussion board. Graphic buttons were created in PowerPoint and imported as images. A welcoming introduction about the purpose of the course and distance learning model used.

Assessment Tool

Essay Rubric

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1, QM Standard 3.3, QM Standard 3.4

California State University, Stanislaus

Erin Hughes, an Instructor from CSU Stanislaus, provides a rubric to grade written essays and set clear grading standards/expectations for students. The point values can easily be added based on each writing assignment. The use of this rubric streamlines the grading process and allows for more comprehensive feedback on specific points addressed in the rubric.

Assessment Tool

PLSI 2: American Government and Institutions - Rubric for Writing Assignment

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1, QM Standard 3.3, QM Standard 3.4

California State University, Fresno

Everett Vieira, an Instructor at Fresno State, developed a six-part rubric for scoring the writing assignment for the PLSI 2: American Government and Institutions introductory GE course. The rubric was created to improve on providing feedback in a timely fashion so that students will have a better idea of exactly how their written assignment will be scored before submitting their essay.

Other

Course Video Tour

QM General Standard 1: Course Overview and Introduction

QM Standard 1.1

California State University, Fresno

Meta Schettler, an Instructor from Fresno State, provides a video tour with consistent navigation and clear instructions for students to begin accessing all course components, such as syllabus, course calendar, assignments, campus support resources, campus policies and support files.

Assignment

Journalism Ethics Scenarios

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

California State University, Fresno

Instructor Timothy Drachlis from Fresno State, created an exercise and discussion whereby students learn more about journalism ethics. Working in groups, students select from 5 scenarios where they collaboratively develop a presentation using lectures, readings, and research as they apply the code of ethics to their respective scenario.

Video

Active Learning Video using EdPuzzle

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.5

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.1, QM Standard 6.3

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

So Ra Baek, an Instructor from Cal Poly Pomona, shares a video which in which a lesson was created using using EdPuzzle. The instructor embeds 3 questions at different intervals in the video for students to self-check their learning.

Assessment Tool

How You'll Use It - Pauling's Rules

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1, QM Standard 3.3, QM Standard 3.4

California State University, Fresno

Keith Putrika, an Instructor at Fresno State, developed a summative assessment where students apply Pauling's Rules and related concepts in mineralogy, to assess an environmental issue that might mimic the ways in which the concepts could be used in practice. The accompanying grading rubric includes percentages for the characteristics as well as a letter grade for the corresponding criteria.

Assessment Tool

Student reading presentation rubric

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.1, QM Standard 3.3, QM Standard 3.4

California State University, Fresno

Jidong Chen, an Instructor at Fresno State, developed this detailed Reading Presentation rubric for use with the rubric tool in Canvas. The rubric describes in detail how students' presentations on the assigned research articles are graded in terms of their 'content', 'organization', 'mechanics', and 'elocution and eye contact'.

Other

Full Citations Provided for Videos Used in PPT

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.3

San Jose State University

Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts, an Instructor from San Jose State University, provides an example of a content page on the Canvas App which shows full citations for the YouTube video sources.

Syllabus

Matrix of Alignment of Module Objectives & Assignments

QM General Standard 2: Learning Objectives (Competencies)

QM Standard 2.4

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.1

California State University, San Marcos

Sarah Jayyousi, an Instructor at CSU San Marcos, shares a matrix of student learning outcomes and assignments that are within the syllabus.

Discussion

Peer Part Planning

QM General Standard 2: Learning Objectives (Competencies)

QM Standard 2.4

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.1, QM Standard 5.2

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Patrick Mannion, an Instructor at Cal Poly Pomona, teaches students how to best use 3D CAD modeling software in their course. Each assignment requires a large amount of planning and forethought before starting to make a model. To help address this issue, the Peer Part Planning assignment breaks students into small groups and has them come up with a basic plan/outline for how they can approach the creation of the model.

Discussion

Peer-to-Peer Engagement using Twitter

QM General Standard 4: Instructional Materials

QM Standard 4.5

QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction

QM Standard 5.2

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.3

California State University, San Bernardino

Elisabeth Anderson, an Instructor from CSU San Bernardino, created an activity designed to promote active learning and peer-to-peer engagement. Students are asked to read up on genetic testing from a website provided to them. Then they engage in a Twitter discussion about the pros and cons of the technology.

Syllabus

Syllabus Example for Learner Support (Student Resources)

QM General Standard 7: Learner Support

QM Standard 7.4

San Jose State University

Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts, an Instructor from San Jose State University, includes information for non-academic support resources/programs for students. More details and contact information for 3 key support programs are included. Weblinks, email, and phone numbers are listed for these 3 key programs.

Quiz / Test / Polling

Teaching Channel Tutorial Loomai

QM General Standard 3: Assessment and Measurement

QM Standard 3.5

QM General Standard 6: Course Technology

QM Standard 6.1, QM Standard 6.3

California State University, Fresno

Deborah Brown, an Instructor at Fresno State, created a tutorial in Loomai to take students through a virtual tour of the topics/assignments found on the Teaching/Learning Channel. Most importantly, how to access the Library online and how to login to the Teaching Channel without incurring charges for the service. This tutorial includes embedded quizzes so that students are able to self-assess their understanding of important topics covered.

Syllabus

Syllabus Example for Learner Support (Technology)

QM General Standard 7: Learner Support

QM Standard 7.1

San Jose State University

Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts, an Instructor at San Jose State University, includes a statement in the syllabus of the technology needed to complete the course, as well as how to get help with technology. Canvas LMS and SJSU campus resources are listed and linked for easy student access.

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