BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY
AND
DISTANCE LEARNING HANDBOOK
Prepared by Benjamin Worth, <ben.worth@kctcs.edu>
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. General Overview
1.2. Is Distance Ed for You?
1.3. Why Teach Online?
1.4. Acknowledgements
2.1. Files and Folders
2.2. Discussion Boards
2.3. Dropboxes
2.4. Email
2.5. Chatrooms
2.6. Tests and Exams
2.7. Gradebooks
2.8. Miscellaneous
Features
3. ORIENTING STUDENTS TO ONLINE CLASSES
3.1. Course Overview
3.2. Course Orientation
4.1. Textbooks
4.2. Publisher Resources
4.3. Text Files
4.4. PowerPoint
4.5. Multimedia
4.6. Chatrooms
5. LEARNING CONTENT (Learning Facts)
5.1. Using Discussion Boards to Discuss Content
5.2. Using Quizzes to Check Learning
5.3. Using Chatrooms to Discuss Content
5.4. Sample
Assignments
6. APPLYING CONTENT (Critical Thinking)
6.1. Using Drop Boxes for Critical Thinking
6.2. Using Threaded Discussion Boards for Critical Thinking
6.3. Group Work
6.4. Sample Assignments
7. CONTENT ASSESSMENT (Tests and Exams)
7.1. Objective Tests
7.2. Subjective Tests
7.3. Recommended Policies
8. FOSTERING STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
8.1. Welcoming Students (Ice-Breakers)
8.2. Encouraging Student Interaction (Groups)
8.3. Communicating
with Students (Making them feel welcome)
9.1. Databases
9.2. Electronic Course Reserves
9.3. Interlibrary Loan
9.4. Plagiarism
Resources
10.1. Communicating with Students
10.2. Organizing the CMS
10.3. Recommended Policies
10.4.
Recommended Practices
11. APPENDIX
11.1. CMS Primer for Students
11.2. Class Screenshots
11.3. Sample Course Overview
11.4. Sample Instructor Contact File
11.5. Sample Course Orientation
11.6. Microsoft Word Shortcuts
11.7. Index to Diana Hacker’s Rules for Writers (5th ed.)
11.8. Glossary
11.9. Annotated Bibliography