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How many days do you log into Canvas and interact with the students? How quickly do you give helpful feedback on activities and assessments? Do you set your students’ expectations by including an email\/discussion response statement in your syllabus?<\/p>\n
Why do we pose these questions? Frequent interaction and purposeful engagement with students are a hallmark of excellence in teaching and learning. It looks different depending on whether you are teaching in-person, hybrid\/blended, or online.\u00a0 We ask students in our in-person courses to log into Canvas every day to see announcements, their grades and feedback, and content. This provides opportunities to increase engagement with students outside of the scheduled classroom time. For hybrid and online faculty, we can use best practices to increase engagement with students who may be residential or remote.<\/p>\n
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Faculty who teach online regularly or occasionally should be aware of Regular & Substantive Interaction (RSI),<\/strong> a regulation from the Department of Education that went into effect July 2021. RSI is a determination of whether an online course is a correspondence course (which doesn\u2019t qualify for Federal financial aid) or a distance education course. These recommendations also apply to in-person teaching.<\/p>\n Fortunately, we have resources like the Quality Scorecard from the Online Learning Consortium to help us identify how we are meeting RSI and areas where we may need to improve our efforts. Over the next few months, we will share the criteria with suggestions on how to put them into practice.<\/p>\n The scorecard is divided into 6 sections: Course Overview and Information, Course Technology and Tools, Design and Layout, Content and Activities, Interaction, and Assessment and Feedback.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at the first two sections.<\/p>\n Remember, these RSI standards are useful in increasing student engagement in any modality!<\/p>\n Next up in this series:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Designing for Student Engagement using RSI<\/strong><\/p>\n The CFC would love to partner with you to design, redesign, or make improvements to your Canvas course. \u00a0Let us know what you need through our Consultations Scheduling Page.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\nCourse Overview and Information:<\/h3>\n
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Course Technology and Tools:<\/h3>\n
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