Check Your Understanding
Go beyond typical check your understanding opportunities to evaluate students’ comprehension.
Why Create this Learning Experience
Through frequent and timely feedback, this activity provides an opportunity to deepen students comprehension and ability to synthesize knowledge. These knowledge checks can take place in group or individual settings.
To foster an interactive and engaging activity be sure to clearly articulate the expectations and establish parameters within the prompt. See the additional considerations on how to appropriately use this activity.
Prompt
Assessment Type: Graded or Non-Graded
Recommended Learning Tool: Quiz
Learning Domain: A robust online course will incorporate a variety of learning domains to support students’ achievement of the course outcomes. This activity is best suited for a Low cognitive function.
If you are actively collaborating with a designer, please direct them to this resource if you are interested in utilizing this learning experience. It can be applied or adapted to your online course.
Additional Considerations
Consider the following recommendations to execute this activity effectively:
- This learning experience relies on a prior activity.
- Clearly articulate activity instructions and expectations, such as purpose, context, collaboration methods, submission format, deadlines, netiquette, model submission examples.
- Consider a rubric to provide students with directions and how their submission(s) will be evaluated.