Tag: Surveys

Best Practices for Surveys and Polls- This Week’s Faculty Challenge #3 (Continued)

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Are you using polls and/or surveys to collect data from your students to improve your courses? to encourage student participation? to determine what your next lecture or presentation should highlight? to ascertain what aspects of your course students are struggling with? As we mentioned in our previous post, we’re very interested in sharing how YOU …

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Faculty Challenge #3: We Challenge You to Share Your Ideas!

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Thank you everyone who shared examples of ways that you create your online persona. We had a tie this week for first place, something fishy here? Congratulations to both Joel and Jim for your video submissions. This week our challenge does not pit faculty against faculty, even in fun. Rather, we challenge you to share your …

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Polls and Surveys to Connect with Your Students

Online instructors, especially those teaching asynchronously without video or audio conferences, often express that they don’t know how their students are “feeling”, or if their students are confused, or frustrated with aspects of the course. Survey tools are plentiful and make surveys simple to deploy. Surveys may be one of the most powerful tools in your teaching arsenal, whether …

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Another Google-y Treat!

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Need a fast, FREE method to survey your students or colleagues? Do you just want to create it and quickly send out a link or post on Blackboard for your entire class? Advantages to Google Forms: Quick and simple to create Send participants a live link Results are sent to a Google Spreadsheet You can …

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