Description

Scholar includes several tools which allow you and your students to continue the conversation online after class is over.  You can use Scholar’s communication tools to get your students talking about the topic for class, or as an opportunity for students to individually reflect on course topics. This session will give you the information that you need to set up, manage and grade activities using Scholar’s communication tools

Assumptions

Participants in this session should should be able to:

• Log into Scholar
• Create Scholar content
• Set up and use Grade Center columns

Required Participant Prep Work

None

Agenda

This session will cover:

• The differences between discussions, blogs and journals
• The types of assignments that work best as each type of tool
• Creating discussion forums, threads and posts
• Creating blogs
• Creating journals
• Grading discussions, blogs and journals

Learning Outcomes

• After completing this session, participants will be able to:

  • Determine which communication tool (blog, journal or discussion) will meet their course goals
  • Create graded and ungraded discussion forums
  • Create discussion threads and posts
  • Create blogs
  • Create journals
  • Grade discussions, blogs and journals