I think the textbook was easily accessible and was easy to read. I liked out the table of contents were outlined on the left side rather than having to scroll back up to find it. I also liked how it had the header of each individual section to click on as well. Compared to other book costs, this book was very affordable and worth the price. I will say, I did not use the notes portion at all or highlighting portion. I feel like I do better learning the material by actually writing the content down on paper to review.

Achieve isn’t good. 

It was adequate. I did not find the most use from the textbook that I payed for.

I think while I had to pay for a textbook, it was the cheapest I've ever had to pay for.

The textbook was easy to use and study with the extra notes and highlight features

I was pretty satisfied with the achieve book, but most the article were so damn long it was hard to focus on all of them. Also the read out load option was probably the worst thing about achieve besides the length of every chapter. They didnt have one normal voices, it was always some ridiculous voice that made you at least me mad that it was even an option. I went through everyone one and there were some like robot where you could barely understand what they were saying. But the organization and layout of the book was perfect. 

for the price I paid, I wished that the audio reader was better. It sounded too robotic and didn't pronounce words right.. it was harder for me to follow along, but I need an audio reader to be able to stay focused due to my ADHD. I thought the highlight feature was cool but I didn't end up using it at all. I felt that the chapters were a little long, but they were managable.

I really loved using Achieve. I wish I could've used it for my other courses as well. I love reading the little anecdotes for the ~3 point quizzes.

The information and readings achieve gave were great, just a little confusing on how to locate it all.

The learning curve tool served as a great study tool when preparing for tests, and the variety of activities helped reinforce information I might have otherwise forgotten. I didn't have a massive preference on the actual textbook when compared to a paper one, though sometimes it took a little bit to get the book to load on my computer.

The text book was perfectly fine- the quizzes , map quizzes, or summaritive quizzes were written in ways that did not give you any context.

I did not watch the videos at all. I think the reading was enough for me to understand completely.

I felt that they weren't entirely necessary since most, if not all information was available on Achieve.

My biggest issue with these videos is that they are always buffering. I have a high end gaming pc a 400/mbs hardwired connection and I STRUGGLED getting videos to load without buffering every 5 seconds. Out of all the videos, only a small handful were able to be seen from start to finish with no pauses. And it was usually the 2-3 min videos. 

The videos were interesting, but somewhat difficult to retain information from.

I really liked being able to watch these on my own

I didn't pay much thought to the videos, I watched them and took some notes

Ya these were important, They defiantly helped my understanding and I was able to take note on them, and I liked being able to pause when I needed a break and stuff like that. Also I didnt have a favorite when it came to the videos. Sometime I would understand why you made us watch it and some I wouldn't, but most of the time I got it. 

It was helpful that I was able to pause and rewatch videos due to my ADHD.

No other feedback.

Videos are always nice to have 

No

The videos required in this class seemed extremely outdated, a la History channel 2006.  This would be okay if it mixed in modern context or content as well, but it does not.

I would not have enrolled in this course at all if it was mandatory to attend Zoom calls. I work full-time from 8am to 5/6pm everyday during the week and I also attend college full-time. So finding time to attend in person classes are not an option for me. 

Other than office hours, I think Zoom is completely useless and unnecessary for learning. In the past classes I've taken, I've had little to no use or learning from Zoom.

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I'd rather email but I'm not sure how useful the zoom aspect would be.

I liked that zoom wasn't required because I was able to work at my pace and time

I hate zoom my ADHD would always get in the way of me focusing on zoom for more than 5 minutes. So I liked that you didnt use it. 

I have severe social anxiety and perform much better when I do not have to participate in zoom or in person, I enjoyed that I was able to just do the course on my own without meeting over zoom or in class.

I wouldn't like this as I have a very busy schedule, and any obligation would hurt me in terms of what I get out of this class.

Life is busy and we don't always have a chance to meet at a specific time.

Part of the reason I take online classes is because a scheduled meeting time does not reliably work with my schedule, so the flexibility of when I can work on the class was useful.

Zoom is not ideal for students in my mind. I would prefer an app like Discord. Some might not see the difference, but Skype and Zoom are clunky, slow, and have very dated UIs. The only people I find who use this often are often outdated in their tech interests already, and so do not have the right perspective to understand student's use case.

Having midweek deadlines would be pretty difficult for me to accomplish. I work full time as well as taking three classes. Having that work load would be a challenge to try to complete during the week, especially with having to complete other class work during the week.

I already have a reasonable amount of knowledge about subjects from this course, so in many of the assignments I didn't really have to look at sources or have to burn anything in to my brain because it was already memorized from before. For people who don't I think it would be favorable to review throughout the week

Midweek deadlines are highly inconvenient. Consistent deadlines on sunday was the only thing keeping my assignments turned in on time.

I am guilty of doing this a few times and I think that I didn't retain a whole lot in those first weeks because of it.

I would not like the midweek deadlines 

The primary source quizzes with a mid-week deadline could be a good way to motivate students to start the chapter work earlier than they would have if the deadlines were Sunday. 

Im like a 50/ 50 on this, I work most days so the Sunday deadline was perfect for me but for people that don't have any obligations besides school, I can understand wanting to put more deadlines in so they have to participate more. 

I think more deadlines would be better for making students participate more in the reading exercises. I think having one extra deadline would be better for people with family, work, and other responsibilities. 

I think this could stop students from procrastinating, sure, but it a student doesn't want to study there's not much that can prevent that. 

Like I said above its hard to have specific deadlines in the middle of the week, because school isn't our only focus in life. 

It would force me to participate more throughout the week, but I'm not how I feel about that. It would be possible for me to work within those deadlines, but that doesn't mean I want to have more deadlines.

People take online classes not to not take your class, professor, but because no one has time to live day to day. This obsessive control over the student's reactions is exactly what made me unable to focus most of the term, knowing my actions would be analyzed and not in a friendly way since the pre-term email.

I think this class was a lot more organized than some of my other courses that I have taken. I really like the way that you formatted everything, it was very easy to find everything.

It worked well, very efficient and easy to use.

You’re layout was clear, no issues there. I think maybe having an extra reminder for mind tap or achieve would be helpful. 

The organization is pretty good, far better than many classes I've taken.

I really liked how this was organized and this is my first Lane class I took

The course organization was great!

Compared to my other three classes, the moodle setup was FAR MORE organized than my other classes.

No I really liked how you did this. 

I thought this course was very well organized, it worked out very well for me. I have not taken another course with an organization style such as this one.

It worked perfectly for me. Simple and not confusing. I really love Achieve as a learning source.

It was just fine, thank you!

It ended up working fine, but I ended up bookmarking the Macmillan learning website.

I personally found the 5 buttons at the top to not appear as if they were buttons, but just imagery- and did not even log in to achieve at first because I didn't understand where this 'link' was.

I am unsure if there is something similar, but MyOpenMath is an amazing tool for my Calculus class. It gives you the options to message the instructor if you have questions about a certain problem. It also has links in the question to help you answer the question. You have three attempts at the question. After that, you will have the option to take a zero, or get a similar question to try to earn back the points. 

No

Nope

I used quizlet for chapters and the learning curve.

I don't know any

No I don't know anything else that would be useful for this class. 

Not that I can think of

I use quizlet on my phone to make flashcards. That works well for me as I can study while lying down before sleep at night.

no

No

I think the google doc was a good idea that was implemented very badly. No parts of this class hold your hand- that is what the professor is supposed to do, hold your hand as they teach you new subjects. So in the case of the study guides, which I found useless-

HAving them empty completely with no way of inferring what should go where leaves students no idea what to put on that page. Similar to the quizzes and tests and exams, there was a lack of planning or formatting obvious to students in this document. I never saw a student in the class use it.

I will typically wait out the first week of the course to determine if I really NEED to purchase the required materials. Sometimes they are extremely expensive and not necessary. My MTH 241 class has all free material and I think it was wonderful. 

Due to how much more expensive everything is now; I think it is a very good idea to provide OER in classes. The overwhelming majority of students already have Internet access so I don't think it would really be an issue.

I think a textbook and assignment are more practical. I’m not sure how cost of text book could be a concern when asking others to pay for achieve or mindtap 

I have taken classes that offer free textbooks. They are very nice, given that in many classes, I have found minimal use of the textbook and still was required to pay a high price for it.

I don't own a printer but it does help to print things out. My apartment complex has a printing station.

I think this textbook was on the cheaper side of some of the textbooks I have had to buy for courses so I didn't really put much thought into if I should buy it or not. I don't think there is a difference in classes that have free online materials and classes that required purchased materials

I would defiantly rather save money but 50 bucks isn't that much so it was that bad, But if you could find open resources that would be free and give the same knoledge as the achieve stuff defiantly do it. Most of my classes now have free resources, like PDFs and stuff like that which I find useful and nice that I don't have to buy anything else, But this wasn't bad and I bet everyone not to mad about dropping 50 bucks on this course. 

Web links would be a very sufficient replacement to pricey textbooks. I do think most students read the required textbooks, I would rather surf websites than buy textbooks, and I would be completely fine with printing webpages! I have taken classes that offered only free materials, and it was great, it took a lot of stress out of starting the class. I've had teachers provide the textbook for free as a PDF, and I've had teachers use free websites to teach us the material. For this class, offering a free PDF maybe better.

I've taken classes with 100% free materials. I don't think that spending 50 dollars on an online source like Achieve should be the main focus; Instead, I think schools should focus on making the cost of living and tuition more important than shelling out a few dollars for a textbook.

Overall, I would say that the fully free option would definitely work for this course, although it wouldn't be as advanced and enjoyable as Achieve is probably.

Money is tight right now with the way the world is going. Thankfully I had help purchasing my books, there are others who don't have help.

So far I have had good experiences with OER classes, and the benefits have outweighed the downsides for the classes I took. 

Dead links do not occur unless the site hosting the information is gone or has changed the url- Which does not generally happen with educational online entities.
In all my other online classes, every professor would email the students if there was a change like that of a dead or missing link- In fact, I have received over a dozen from both my other classes this term. I believe they also ping on moodle.

I do all my reading online already, unless gifted a book. Physical textbooks are just a thing I have to navigate each term.
That being said, I do not like the idea of a world where there are not textbooks entities building and checking a consortium of knowledge against other professionals. Online texts are not as easily open to derision or edits due to disinformation. Although easier TO edit, it is often more difficult to get an online only entity to stick to their restrictions and so I could foresee a 1984 like world where only the expensive universities require physical textbooks, and the online learning entities are part of a double speak like learning that they know nothing of.

I think that everything was very well organized in this class and you communicated very well.

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This class was organized and it was a breath of fresh air for me personally and I appreciated not feeling lost constantly

I don't have any worries, though I did do bad on the final and midterm, I know that I don't do well in online classes.

Your test, They are really hard for me at least, and the study guild needs a big re run. All of my classes give me a lot more and a lot of a better study guide. Not to be rude or anything but your was the worst study guild I probably have ever seen, in all my years of School. It so barren you give like 2 to 3 sentences per chapter, and then there 25 questions per chapter on the test. and only a couple of them relate to the study guide. So that's really my only advice. Also don't make the test so heavy on the grade book. A lot of people aren't good test takers and then you make it worth 50 percent of their grade, it sorrta make this class suck in a sense. Like I had a 90 before my mid term and now im at a 75, and that all because im never been a good test taker. and now most likely im gonna fails your class that I had to pay for out of my money, and redo it at some point. SO it just sucks because of that but overall good job on everything else besides the test. 

I think making use of weekly discussion boards that require us to discuss a topic in each chapter and reply to other classmates about that chapter may increase student participation in the course. 

Nothing that I can think of. It's the best it's been for a fully online course.

None! 

I dont know how I would change the class.

Being open to multiple forms of communication is key as a professor. You are dealing with multiple different points of view from students, so one has to be pretty flexible, even if to say you'd prefer speaking on a different platform. 

I think an important question to ask is did we as students enjoy this class; I did not. 
Another one is; Do we as students benefit from going in person for a history exam? I personally did worse than I ever have on a history exam. It is not knowing something to have it memorized- It is not knowing something just because you can spew the facts if you do not understand the implications of them. I found a lot of this class was memorization for memorizations sake, and often questions were written in biased perspectives- which is okay I guess if you give context- but not okay if context is 'assumed'. I felt like I was trying to prove I wasn't tricking the professor all term- and I like school- I do not understand the attitude of anxiety that students are going to take advantage of these online classes. I have time constraints outside of the normal student- that is why I took this class. Requiring me to come in person to a campus in which the resources advertised are not truly available any day, is ridiculous and was a large issue for me during the term.