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A critical part of my First Year coordinator (and course coordinator) role in the Physio program in 2018 is to support first year students who are struggling. As I work part-time and will not be present in all teaching sessions, it is important that I have an available teaching presence that is sustainable in my workload. I want to provide a regular (weekly?) chat opportunity to answer student questions and concerns about the course/program/Uni, and to demonstrate to students that I am interested in them by regularly being ‘seen’ online.

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Question: Is LOL Chat tool the best tool for this need?

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Question: Is LOL Chat tool the best tool for this need?

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I see the strengths as:
- can be scheduled at a regular time

- Chat session logs as resources

- can promote visibility of common problems to reassure first years
- easily integrated in the course site
- can be open on my desktop while I attend to other tasks.
My concern is its accessibility for students. It is several mouse clicks to sign in to myUniSA then access the course LOL site then the chat room.
Do you know of other chat tools that are more convenient and easy to access for students and so may be more readily used?

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Aim: A solution to Adelaide's Mad March scheduling

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Aim: A solution to Adelaide's Mad March scheduling

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Thanks to lots of public holidays in SP2 and difficulties rescheduling classes, I cannot afford to lose the Adelaide Cup week of practical class teaching. So I want to convert some activities to a LOL lesson. It will focus on learning and practicing the basic skill of identifying joint movements.

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I have just found out that a LOL Quiz is a new addition to the course I have taken over. So there is no previous version/template to use. I have not created a Quiz before. It will be worth 15% and timed just before the mid-period break (there is an essay worth 60% at end of course).
Do you have a quiz that I can look at?

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Question: How do you keep a Facebook tool separate from your personal account?

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Question: How do you keep a Facebook tool separate from your personal account?

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Would I open a 'new' account linked to my work email and keep for teaching purposes? (if I used this social medium as the chat tool)

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Watch this space: my lesson draft to be posted this week for your review

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Watch this space: my lesson draft to be posted this week for your review

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Hi Caroline, I've used Quizzes in a course based on weekly readings. As Heather has indicated, set a specific time for the quiz. One of the tricks I've used is to make sure both the answers in the quiz are randomised and the questions themselves are randomized. This way if two students think they sit next to each other and work together it is highly unlikely they will get the same questions in the same pattern. I've also included questions that require more than one response and have set wrong responses to 'take marks away'. This is for those students who think they can just guess an answer. I'd be happy to send you a link to an old course of mine that used a quiz (I'm not using them so much these days)

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Hi Caroline, I've used Quizzes in a course based on weekly readings. As Heather has indicated, set a specific time for the quiz. One of the tricks I've used is to make sure both the answers in the quiz are randomised and the questions themselves are randomized. This way if two students think they sit next to each other and work together it is highly unlikely they will get the same questions in the same pattern. I've also included questions that require more than one response and have set wrong responses to 'take marks away'. This is for those students who think they can just guess an answer. I'd be happy to send you a link to an old course of mine that used a quiz (I'm not using them so much these days)

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Lydia Love your padlet Caroline F. We are using them currently in UniSA online.Pros: great for brainstorming, icebreakers, quick comments, uploading photos for comment etcCons: you cannot monitor posts via learning analytics, I have had a few issues with author not turning up. Also struggling a bit when there are lots of students and long posts it gets a bit unwieldy. Operator error?  You are also having two issues I have had with padlet, posted comments are anonymous and also you have to 'slide' over to post and see all the posts- a new student might struggle to find the pink post button! Not sure how to fix either. Lydia

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Lydia Love your padlet Caroline F. We are using them currently in UniSA online.Pros: great for brainstorming, icebreakers, quick comments, uploading photos for comment etcCons: you cannot monitor posts via learning analytics, I have had a few issues with author not turning up. Also struggling a bit when there are lots of students and long posts it gets a bit unwieldy. Operator error?  You are also having two issues I have had with padlet, posted comments are anonymous and also you have to 'slide' over to post and see all the posts- a new student might struggle to find the pink post button! Not sure how to fix either. Lydia

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Caroline, moodle chat tool is a bit clunky and as many other staff dont use this feature, students may be unsure about this. I too am going to give it a try with the sole purpose of letting students know that I am here (live) in case they have any issues they need to resolve. With F2F teaching, they have access to me. With online, they worry who to go to when they have a problem. Knowing I am around may provide them with reassurance and comfort....well that is the plan anyway :) Saravana

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I have made the lesson on my course homepage as I wasn't sure if I could move it from the sandpit. It is under 'Week 3' tab. LInk is here: https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=13620#section-6
Feel free to have a look and send me a message if you have any comments. I found the multiple choice format was influencing me to turn it into a quiz rather than a lesson. Used the feedback opportunity and content pages to enhance the learning opportunity compared with a quiz.
Off to bed :)

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Formative activity
(by Bec Godwin)

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(part 2)

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Hi Caroline
I don't have a great deal more to add to the comments above but mostly to reiterate what has been said.  I use quizzes for the external students and the OUA students.  I use them as a continuous assessment tool (summative), so there is one every week, there is a close day and time and only after that the results are released to each individual student.  The questions are randomised and I have found this to be very useful.  Each year we add a couple of additional questions to build up the bank.  We have been happy with this tool to date.

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Hi Caroline
I have been developing a lesson tool as well and I haven't found it to be super intuitive. One very good piece of advice I have heard (from Sandy I think) was to plan it out first - it sounds so simple but I found drawing it up as a mud map first ie where a student will move to if they do not answer a question successfully etc made it a lot easier to develop.

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I used chat this year Caroline and it worked really well ! I published a time and date for the chat and then was available at that time. We had lots of engagement and the chat log served as a future resource. My advice would be to allow 30 mins to 1 hour of live time.

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I used chat this year Caroline and it worked really well ! I published a time and date for the chat and then was available at that time. We had lots of engagement and the chat log served as a future resource. My advice would be to allow 30 mins to 1 hour of live time.