Creating Online Orientations for Your Campus

1. Creating Online Orientations for Your Campus Don Nickel October 18, 2007 For audio call Toll Free 1-888-886-3951 and use PIN/code 765494

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3. Agenda • Online instruction at De Anza College • What makes good CMS software • What content should be in an orientation to college course • COUN 100 tour • Considerations and Resources

4. Who I Am • Online Student Services Specialist Counselor • COUN 100 Coordinator • Teach Coun 100 online each quarter since Fall 2001. Teach C100 in the classroom also. • nickeldon@deanza.edu • 408 864-5423 • What are your questions?

5. What About You? • How many of you are counselors? • How many of you teach online? • Does your college offer an online orientation to college course? • Are you the one who teaches it? • Please ask you questions

6. Online Instruction at De Anza • De Anza has supported WebCT and ETUDES • Beginning Fall 2007, De Anza supports only Moodle called Catalyst at De Anza • Fall 2007: 67 online courses with 1980 students • 96 distance learning courses and 3302 students

7. Course Management Software • Are any significantly better than the others? • New versions are released every few years • What you like is usually what your college supports and what you get used to • Which CMS does your college support and why did it choose that one?

8. Why WebCT • De Anza paid discounted licensing fees; CVC paid for hosting • Training was available both at conferences, on campus and online • Easier to learn new version than to switch to another CMS • Little competition at the time (2001)

9. Why Moodle • Able to customize – called Catalyst at De Anza • Ease of Use • Open Source (No license fees per student) • ADA compliance (better than ETUDES and WebCT) • Huge worldwide user base • We evaluated many different systems, settling on four finalists:  Moodle, WebCT, ETUDES and Angel. Based on the above factors, and many others, Moodle came out on top!

10. COUN 100 at De Anza • About 100 – 110 sections each year • Most F2F; 4-6 online each year • Mandatory but not enforced • 12 hours long; Pass/NoPass/.5unit • College policy and procedures, placement test info, GE patterns, degree options, major selection, transfer requirements and considerations, campus tour, SEP for 1-2 quarters and strategies for registration for new students • Information overload!!!

11. What does a new student need to know? • Different colleges have different ideas • Many colleges: how to pick classes and register for the upcoming semester • How to get on an individual educational track • How to find major and GE requirements • How to obtain transfer information • Some colleges include study skills and college success strategies • All faculty would benefit as part of new hire orientation

12. COUN 100 Online • Provides timely information to student and captures the student now. Ex. Offer sections both at beginning and end of quarter. • Prevents competition with F2F schedule • Traditional distance ed reasons: working student, single parent, rich course content • Supports De Anza goal to provide comprehensive online student services

13. Challenges Unique to Online Instruction • More administrative tasks: adding students, forgotten passwords, adjusting the settings – release dates for content and quizzes • Sending emails to students: reminder to log into the course and how to log in • High attrition rates – even more emails to students • Updating course content that changes • Learning curves for new CMS versions or switching to another CMS

14. To log into my online orientation to college course Go to https://catalyst.deanza.edu/ Select COUN 100 – Nickel Orientation to College Username – dnickel Password – moodle Will leave open until October 25.

15. Philosophical Considerations It is more work to teach (and maintain) a course online than it is to teach in the traditional classroom Agree or Disagree

16. Philosophical Considerations First time college students will benefit more by completing an orientation in a classroom rather than online Agree or Disagree

17. Philosophical Considerations Counselors can make just as effective student connections online versus F2F Agree or Disagree

18. Resources • http://remote-learner.net/ for information, demo classes and training using Moodle • http://moodle.com/ The Moodle Partners are a group of service companies guided by the core developers of Moodle. • http://moodle.org/ resources for using Moodle • Instructional design for online courses • Web accessibility initiative • Accessibility color wheel

19. Upcoming/Archived Seminars For upcoming desktop seminars and links to recently archived seminars, check the @ONE Web site at: http://www.cccone.org/de/07fall/seminars/index.htm

20. Evaluation Survey Link http://tinyurl.com/35zaqg

21. Thanks for AttendingFor information on Distance Education Workshops go to:http://www.cccone.org/de/index.htm