You can test out the programs shown below to see how they work. (Chatroom and web-BBS programs are also available but obvious enough not to be included here.)
| Student-developed quiz questions | One way to get students to read textbook assignments is to provide online reading quizzes. |
| Textbook-chapter multiple-choice reading quizzes | This one is the obvious multiple-choice quiz based on some segment of reading. |
| Textbook-chapter short-answer reading quizzes | This one sends short-essay questions based on some segment of reading to the instructor. |
| Item-by-item exercises | This one goes through an exercise item by item providing hints on wrong answers and feedback on right and wrong answers. |
| Diagnostic quiz | This one provides a "diagnostic" that can be used to suggest study schedules for those taking the diagnostic. |
| Online FAQ | Another way to get students into a community feeling in an online course is to provide an online FAQ, to which they can post questions and answers. |
| Online reading annotations | If there are numerous articles on a topic out on the Web, you can ask students to read and annotate a certain number of those articles. Students can then read each other's anotations when they are deciding whether to read an article. |
| Team project area | This program creates a directory for individual teams containing an updateable team webpage, a form to update that page, a drafts subdirectory, a team chatroom, and a time sheet for team members to log in their work on the project. On the team webpage are areas for the team name; a project description; team member names, e-mail addresses, duties, phone numbers, etc.; team rules; project outline; and project design notes. |
| Project-planning form | This progrsm provides students with a form that asks essential questions they need to address on the way toward completing a project. Their answers can be sent to two or more e-mail addresses. |
| Get-acquainted memo | A simple way for students to become aware of each other in an online course is for them to write a personal memo that everyone else in the course to read. |
| Online grade calculator | This enables students to crank in their grades and see what they are making—or could make given certain grades. |
| Online gradebook | This one enables instructors to enter grades, which can then be viewed by students. |
| Ongoing discussion pages | |
| Online journals | Online journals have many uses in an online course—not just the cliched how-I-feel-about-life sort of journal. The online journal programs here (1) create a journal, (2) enable journal entries, and (3) enable the instructor to append comments to journal entries. |
| Heading-formatting practice | In a technical-writing course, you may want students to get some practice inserting headings into text. This program enables students to get that practice and to see a recommended format. |
| List-formatting practice | Similarly, you may want people to get some practice reformatting regular paragraph text as numbered or bulleted lists. |
| Table-formatting practice | And finally you may want students to get some practice converting text to tables. |
| Writing projects: post & review | You can provide a form for people to post their writing projects and to enable you to comment on those projects. |
| Date-specified schedule | When you do training online, you may want the ability to schedule individual students according to the date they want to start. |
| Student check-off schedule | For training students, it's a nice touch to enable them to "gray out" units they have completed. |
Information and programs provided by hcexres@io.com.