Illinois Compass
Illinois Compass Essentials
Time: 2 hours
This is a hands-on workshop that will help instructors get started using Illinois Compass to present course material, communicate with students, and mange their courses. The basic design features of Illinois Compass will be demonstrated. By the completion of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Navigate Compass
- Implement and utilize the most commonly used tools
- Upload files and create and organize content
- Manage the grade book
Please Note: If you know the course you'll be teaching, please request an Illinois Compass course site before attending the workshop. To request a course site, use our Online Request Form. If you do not know the course you'll be teaching, please request a "Development" course site, using our Online Request Form.
Use of Online Discussions in Illinois Compass for Student (and Faculty) Engagement
Time: 1 hour
We will explore ways in which selective use of online discussions can improve student preparation and engagement with course lectures, content, and work. Examples of online discussion assignments that incorporate hyperlinks, images, and web resources will be demonstrated. We will cover significant and new Illinois Compass discussion tool enhancements such as gradeable topics, grading rubrics, blog and journal features, as well as tracking information of student activity. By moving course writing and discussions online, instructors can improve student engagement with course content by creating a course-wide scholarly community, which extends beyond the traditional face-to-face lecture meeting time. Instead of having students put off their writing until a final deadline and write for the singular audience of the instructor, why not engage them in a collaborative, "public" publishing process more akin to that used by real scholars, professionals, and adults?
Illinois Compass: Assessing Student Performance with Online Quizzes
Time: 1.5 hours
Assessments in Illinois Compass (surveys, self-tests, and quizzes) have a lot of often overlooked potential for enhancing teaching and learning in the online environment. In this brief workshop, we'll be exploring and discussing how assessments can be used for a range of purposes from assessing student understanding to increasing opportunities for student learning. Rather than focusing on the basic button-pushing involved in creating assessments, this workshop emphasizes the higher-level issues of the interplay between assessment design and pedagogical purpose. By the completion of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Explain when to use each type of assessment
- Describe each available question type
- Create questions using the HTML and Equation Editors
- Attach files to questions
- Discuss strategies for fostering academic integrity
- Customize selective release settings based on date/time and other criteria
- Manage quiz submissions and grades
- Use the question database
Illinois Compass Clinic: Best Strategies for Revising Copied Course Sites
Time: 2 hours
If you have content copied from previous semesters and plan to use Illinois Compass this semester, EdTech staff can provide many tips and strategies for updating old course sites. The new Illinois Compass system will present issues and opportunities with copied content, and this session combines the collective experience and wisdom of hundreds of previous course migrations and revisions. We will cover how improvements and tool changes in Illinois Compass will affect your content, file management, best use of internal and external course links, teaching strategies for tool use and display, and other important considerations.
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