Summer Institute 2007 Facilitators: Brian Cafarella and Eric Kraus Building 11, Room 11324

Workshop Sessions Schedule Part 1 Tuesday, June 12 from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Part 2 Thursday, June 14, from 9:00 PM - 12:00 PM Repeat Sessions: Part 1 Tuesday, June 26 from 1:00 AM - 4:00 PM Part 2 Thursday, June 28, from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Part 1 Summer Institute 2007 Brochure Description: MyMathLab is a popular Web-based course content and management system for all levels of mathematics. This two-workshop series will focus on how a department's "master course" can be adopted by multiple faculty members who are interested in incorporating a Web enhancement or in developing a stand-alone Distance Learning course. Basics of course adoption, student performance measures, and course management will be addressed in the first workshop. Part 2 Summer Institute 2007 Brochure Description: The second workshop will focus on the pedagogical issues surrounding the MyMathLab environment - especially within the DL course sections. Distance Learning policies will also be discussed in this session so that instructors and their students are successful in both in-class and distance learning course settings. Alternative for Part 2: Participants will register as students in a DEV 085 class in order to gain insight into the student experience with MyMathLab and to see the similarities between 085 and 108 MML curricula. Participants can practice the online homework and quiz assignments to gain insight into what the students experience while working in the MyMathLab environment. Modifying the Training Course’s Syllabus in order to prepare their own syllabus for a MyMathLab enhancement for Fall Quarter. Creating MML assignments from the publisher’s database of textbook problems.

Workshop Part 1 Outline 1:00 – 2:00 –Introduction –Assessment and Evaluation in DEV 108 –Registering as an Instructor for CourseCompass –Break! 2:15 – 4:00 –Exploring CourseCompass and MyMathLab –Workshop Wrap-up –Grade your facilitators

An Overview of Assessment and Evaluation in DEV Math that Works! The handout: Syllabus Guidelines outlines what several instructors have followed as a set of parameters to help guide the breakdown of points students earn in a courseSyllabus Guidelines The handout: Fall Syllabus is located under the Course Documents section of your adopted courseFall Syllabus Some Student Success Stats (next two slides)

Passage Rates in MML Classes This is data from 78 students from 4 sections (two instructors) from Winter 2007 Grade distribution: A = 4 B = 19 C = 16 N = 11 F = 13 W =14 I = 1 ALL students (n = 78)Remove W’s (n = 64) Remove W’s and F’s (n = 51) = 50% passing = 61% passing = 76% passing

Passage Rates in MML Classes Data from Kraus’ 2 spring 2007 sections (seventh week’s rosters were the population): DEV : (24 registered; 2 deregistered; 3 withdraw; n = 19 active students) A = 1 B = 5 C = 9 N = 2 F = 2 W = 3 Z = 0 I = 0 n = 22 DEV : (20 registered during first week; 7 deregistered; 1 Z; n = 12 active students) A = 2 B = 3 C = 3 N = 4 F = 0 W = 0 Z = 1 I = 0 n = 13 ALL students (n = 35)Remove W’s (n = 32) Remove W, Z, and F’s (n = 28) = 66% passing = 72% passing = 82% passing How do these compare to the historical success rate (stats % )(stats 2)(stats 3 slide 23 )stats 1stats 2stats 3

Getting Started with MML The following document is included in the MyMathLab Summer Institute Training Course: How to Register for MyMathLab As an instructor, you need an Instructor Access Code –Register as an instructor and then you may create/copy courses –In this workshop, you will adopt the MyMathLab Training Course –This copy of the Training Course will serve as a model of the course you will adopt for the fall and subsequent academic terms that you are assigned a MML-enhanced class

Break! Break for 15 minutes

Finding Your Way Around the CourseCompass and MyMathLab Environments Once you are a registered instructor under the Pearson/Prentice Hall online system, you access any textbook enhancement by logging on to the CourseCompass site (students also access their CourseCompass-powered courses by a similar logon procedure)CourseCompass The main features that Sinclair has used in its MML-enhanced courses and Distance Learning courses are seen on the homepage of the Training Course (on the CourseCompass site) –Announcements –Course Documents –Homework –Quizzes (and Tests in DL courses) –Gradebook

Announcements Do you need to make announcements? –“Say few words online; they will come to class more often.” Ancient Eric Saying How to create an announcement

Course Documents How students use it –Course Syllabus –Notes Pages –Practice Tests/Study Guides Downloading the Syllabus Template/Uploading your Syllabus Posting your own documents

Online Homework What’s in the homework assignments that come with my course adoption? Exploring an online homework assignment through the Homework/Test Manager (Control Panel -> Homework/Test Manager -> Actions -> Preview -> GO!)

Online Quizzes Students do an online quiz after they have completed the Notes Pages and the written/online homework assignments –The default prerequisite for accessing an online quiz is 90% on the corresponding online homework. (students may correct missed homework problems until they obtain the 90% score). Exploring an online quiz through the Homework/Test Manager (Control Panel -> Homework/Test Manager -> Actions -> Preview -> GO!)

What’s My Grade? Understanding the MyMathLab Gradebook features –The omniscient Demo Student –Examine Demo Student’s good grades –Examine Brian’s bad grades –How the Syllabus Guidelines are reflected in the assignment of weightsSyllabus Guidelines (Control Panel -> Gradebook -> Change Weights)

How to Assign Grades in MyMathLab Assign Demo Student’s grade for written homework –(Go to MyMathLab Gradebook -> select Demo Student’s name from Roster -> Actions -> Submit Score -> GO!) Changing a previously submitted grade.

Workshop Wrap-Up Are you interested in teaching a MML- enhanced class for fall and/or winter? Next Steps: –Be prepared to adopt the official Fall Quarter class enhancement from Course Coordinator (Eric) –Faculty support/mentoring throughout the academic term –Future training sessions

Workshop Wrap-up, cont. Workshop Evaluation Forms Overview of Part 2 Workshop –This Thursday; same time, same place –Pedagogical considerations for teaching in the MML-enhanced environment –Preparing your Syllabus –Think like a student Register as a student Work on a MML HW assignment