hello everyone my name is Mary Tomi and
I am an adjunct professor at Northern
Essex Community College in Haverhill
Massachusetts for the most part I teach
a three credit course called computer
applications the computer applications
course consists of learning the four
major applications in Microsoft Office
which includes Word Excel access and
PowerPoint I have taught face-to-face
hybrid online and most recently CBE
classes preparing for CBE was a new and
challenging opportunity for me I learned
so much more about teaching in general
for example how best to present the
subject matter to the students how would
I assess each student by applying the
industry standards that they can use to
solve everyday problems and if they
desired to also take the Microsoft MOS
certification exam let me start by
showing you a little bit about the
course and we'll start with
announcements
and you could see as an example I
congratulated two people to students who
have finished the course in a relatively
short period of time which is wonderful
and then there's a short welcome to the
course and now I I send them to the
start here read me first
and again a little tiny welcome and then
I thought this would be a good idea to
how to succeed in the course
okay and what I'm kind of expecting
before things that you need to know
before or catch up and learn how to to
to work the syllabus is there the course
competencies of the end and the page
tribe I also have some textbook options
where they can purchase the book and
also where they can purchase the office
2016 otherwise known as office 365 for
free as a student and the directions are
right here with the links a little bit
about myself and then I thought I'd
throw in navigating the course some
people are so new to Blackboard that
they haven't a clue what it starts so
that was another thing other resources
for you etc etc another thing I want
them to look through and take their time
is all the student support services that
we have at the college well not all of
them but a great deal of them and then
again people that don't know how to use
blackboard they can click on this link
and use some of them I didn't include a
lot of them I just included the ones
that I thought people would use a lot
more than others
and then repeated a lot of things we are
totally getting training to repeat
repeat so you know somewhere along the
line they're gonna find something medic
wit tips for taking tests things like
that that you know they need to read
through it etc
then after they go through all the
readme start here things they can move
on to the course content we require a
first assignment to complete within the
first week that they enroll so it would
establish their participation in the
class so it's a very simple email
assignment I ask them to look at a
website on how to compose an email to
the professor and then the email
instructions that they can just link to
in and process
a lot of places I have a reminder that
we require I require a weekly journal
remind to complete doesn't have to be
long doesn't have to be anything just
tell me how you do in if everything's
going good or if it's not going good you
write in the journal and journal is
private I'm the only one that can see it
and then an introduction to yourself to
the class okay they can do it that's
optional they don't have to do it but
most of them do and then we got some
videos windows videos I have here and I
asked them to use what I'd like them to
use Windows 10 which is where we're at
but I also include the windows 7's and
the window 8 and the window 10 because
some student with office 16 you can use
any of those operating systems and
submitting how to submit exams etc etc
and then I'll just dive into this
microsoft word which is they can take as
you can see you can take any application
you want to start with you don't have to
do Word Excel you have to do it in order
you could start with any of the
Microsoft applications so I'll just go
to word what I usually suggest they go
to something they're more comfortable
with that they've used before to get a
thing under their belt there and I do
them in folders chapter 1 chapter 2
chapter 3 and I have the checklist for
activities that they need to do before
they dive into it for the learning
outcomes we're going to have to get
which are great from the textbook and
then
some word chapter 1 videos I have videos
for all the chapters and all the
applications and I got a lot of comments
about that that they really liked that a
lot of students are into the videos
other than the book which is fine and
then they take a pre-assessment
and it says here if you scored 80% or
above you bastard the chapter and you
can begin the next chapter which just
happens to be word chapter two if you
don't get an 80 that's okay
you can go to this link here and you
will go through some more intense
learning in that particular chapter and
then again when you finish you take the
post assessment
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