Winter Institute 2007Facilitators: Brian Cafarella and Eric Kraus

Building 5, Room 134

Workshop Session Schedule

• Part 1 Intro/Overview of the Curriculum Model 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

– Refreshment break! 10:30 – 10:45 in our room

• Part 2 DEV 085 MML status / DEV 108 Distance status 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

• Lunch Break – Tartan Terrace, downtown, or in your office if you are anti-social like Brian

• Part 3 Changes for Winter / Creating Your Own Assignments with TestGen and MathXL Exercise Builder

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

– Refreshment Break ‘til 2:45

• Part 4 Other Publisher supplied resources/Wrap-up/Workshop forms 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

An Overview of Assessment and Evaluation in DEV Math

that Works!• The handout: Syllabus Guidelines outlines what several

instructors have followed as a set of parameters to help guide the breakdown of points students earn in a course

• The document: Winter Syllabus is located under the Course Documents section of your adopted course

Getting Started with MML

• The following document is included in the MyMathLab Winter Institute Coordinator Course:

• How to Register for MyMathLab (see handout)• As an instructor, you need an Instructor Access Code

– Register as an instructor and then you may create/copy courses

– In this workshop, you will adopt the MyMathLab Winter Coordinator Course

– This copy of the Coordinator Course will serve as a model of the course you will adopt for the winter and subsequent academic terms that you are assigned a MML-enhanced class

Finding Your Way Around the CourseCompass and

MyMathLab Environments • Once you are a registered instructor under the Pearson/Prentice Hall

online system, you access any textbook enhancement by logging on to the CourseCompass site (students also access their CourseCompass-powered courses by a similar logon procedure)

• The main features that Sinclair has used in its MML-enhanced courses and Distance Learning courses are seen on the homepage of the Training Course (on the CourseCompass site)– Announcements

– Course Documents

– Homework

– Quizzes (and Tests in DL courses)

– Gradebook

Announcements

• Do you need to make announcements?– “Say few words online; they will come to class

more often.” Ancient Eric Saying • How to create an announcement in CourseCompass

Course Documents

• How students use this link– Course Syllabus– Notes Pages– Practice Tests/Study Guides

• Try Downloading the Syllabus Template/Uploading Your Syllabus

• Posting your own documents

Online Homework

• What’s in the homework assignments that come with my course adoption?

• Exploring an online homework assignment through the Homework/Test Manager (Control Panel -> Homework/Test Manager -> Actions -> Preview -> GO!)

• NOTE: an archive of the old online homework assignments is located at the bottom of the list of assignments in the Homework/Test Manager

Online Quizzes

• Students do an online quiz after they have completed the Notes Pages and the written AND online homework assignments – The default prerequisite for accessing an online quiz is 90% on

the corresponding online homework. (students may correct missed homework problems until they obtain the 90% score).

• Exploring an online quiz through the Homework/Test Manager (Control Panel -> Homework/Test Manager -> Actions -> Preview -> GO!)

• NOTE: an archive of the old online quiz assignments is located at the bottom of the list of assignments in the Homework/Test Manager

What’s My Grade?

• Understanding the MyMathLab Gradebook features– How the Syllabus Guidelines are reflected in

the assignment of weights

(Control Panel -> Gradebook -> Change Weights)

How to Assign Grades in MyMathLab

• Assign Fall quarter student a grade for written homework – (Go to MyMathLab Gradebook -> select a student’s name from

Roster -> Actions -> Submit Score -> GO!)

• Changing a previously submitted grade.

DEV 085 Status

• MML for DEV 085 and plans for a revised Dev 085 DL modality for next fall

DEV 108 MML-Distance

• Course stats for fall 2007– 108-TC  n= 29 (2 Z's) Pass = 19  65.5%

(adjust for Z's : 70.3%)– 108-TE  n = 23 (1 Z)  Pass = 18  78.3%

(adjust for Z's : 85.7%)– 108-TF  n = 10          Pass = 60%– 108-TG* n = 16 Pass = 75%

*New DL faculty (beginner’s luck )

Changes for Winter

• Some changes to the online MML homework and quizzes– See seven-page handout

• Homework 8, 9, 10 changed • Quizzes 8, 9, 10 changed• What were the changes?

– Certain problems were either deleted and/or replaced with custom or publisher-supplied exercises to fit with the Outline of Topics (see 4th page of 7-pg. handout)

TestGen Plug-in (?)

• You can edit publisher-supplied content

• You can create custom exercises and import these into existing or new online assignments, quizzes, and tests– See Fall 2007 Distance Exit Assessment

• Try Creating a Homework Assignment and then, if you feel brave, a Custom Exercise (see handout)

Workshop Wrap-Up

• Are you interested in teaching a MML-enhanced class for winter or spring?

• Next Steps:– You are prepared to adopt the official Winter

Quarter class enhancement from Course Coordinator (Eric)

– Faculty support/mentoring throughout the academic term

– Future training sessions