Satisfied, the class was excellent. 

I personally liked the textbook and Mindtap site. I like how the sections were split up with the "check my understanding" sections at the end of each reading section, because it made the reading portion feel less daunting. I think human brains just prefer it when things are split up into smaller sections, like the saying "eat the elephant one bite at a time." 

The textbook and course was extremely easy to navigate and complete with the proper attention and time given to the course. 

I think the online textbook worked great, but for me I think I would rather have a hardcopy of the book. I did not use the additional resources. 

I thought MindTap was great. It helped keep me on track with my reading and understanding. It also was very helpful with remembering the things I read. A previous history class that I took was just read the chapters and take a quiz every few weeks. It was hard to remember and stay on task with reading. I appreciated MindTap and how you organized the class as it was a chapter a week and helped keep facts and information organized. I think MindTap is a great way to learn and well worth the money. I think the textbook was well written and easy to read. It covered the information very well. 

i was satisfied. Maybe it's just due to the nature of the course and how much there is to cover in so little time/few pages, but I found quite a bit was glossed over.

I think that honestly everyone understands the material of what being said in the Mindtap assignments and chapter tests. However, there were some tricky questions that did not make sense to me and caused me to get a letter grade lower on a assignment or test I didn't understand. I just think that the grades on Mind tap don't reflect an overall grade percentage of a student's work ethnic and understanding of a week's material at a time. Like if I were to be honest with my last Chapter 10 Mindtap assignment deadline pending (as of this writing), I think I deserve at least a B, but no lower then a B- for the term of a final grade.  I do like how the textbook as readily available though. That was a huge plus for me then prior classes LCC I took before with online textbooks, this class in particular was the most available. 

Everything worked well

It's overall not that bad, having it read the text out loud for me helps me stay focus so I don't too easily bored.

I was satisfied with the quality of the book and I like that it was actually used in the class. I just had some issues with the audio on it. It was hard for me to keep up with mindtap and the readings because I work two jobs and have other classes, leaving me very limited time to read enough to succeed. Listening to the audio while driving or at work would've helped me more.

I have take quite a few online courses at LCC, and have definitely purchased some expensive online textbooks. Overall, I think this one was above average. I never used the read it out loud option, but I did use the highlight and note taking features throughout the course. I think these extra features definitely justified the price. It is definitely densely packed with information, as most textbooks are, which made it a little hard to read at times. Still, I think the maps and pictures throughout helped enough to make it somewhat easy to follow. 

Overall I would say I was very satisfied with the textbook and the experience of using MindTap.

The textbook was well written and provided all of the information I would need to know. However, it felt a bit too elaborate and comprehensive at times, which made the amount of information sort of overwhelming. Regardless, I liked having an online textbook, since it made the reading material easily accessible.

I think the textbook and MindTap  were great especially because MindTap  allowed us to do many things such as highlighting, taking notes, I also found it easier to navigate the text through the website . 

I got the subscription to all the textbooks because my math class used mindtap to.

Within mindtap, the chapter quizzes were often three questions, and missing even one would bring the grade average down below what I felt was fair

I didn't mind the price of the book and using it was easy. However, The read out loud part was hard to figure out so my husband had to read me everything. The questions with the pictures I felt you expected me to be an art expert. and the mini-quizzes weren't anything close to the final or mid-term quizzes so they didn't really help me. just something to prove that I read. 

At first it was challenging to find and understand but after the second week I started to get the hang of it and how to navigate around. The price was in line with my other classes materials. The layout could improve so it doesn't make you go back and forth having to open up a so many tabs just to get where you need to go. I appreciated we had actually history in the class instead of it being canceled by our current cancel culture. As we dove into slavery this term, I was so relieved to find real information that hadn't been reformatted to fit a narrative or erased. So thank you!

I think that perhaps a list or hint of what parts of the video will be important would be helpful. I ended up taking a lot of time to take detailed notes for fear that an obscure fact would be on the video quiz. I think that taking such notes hindered my enjoyment of the videos by taking me out of the narrative.

Videos were excellent

It was helpful that we could rewatch the clips as much as we wanted. I noticed that most of the clips were connected to what we were reading in the text, which was helpful. 

It was helpful to be in control of when I could watch the clips and pause and replay for notes. The amount of clips and the length made it difficult to focus on every individual clip.

I can say, these videos were helpful but it was hard taking notes. It took a very long time to get all the notes completed.

I think the videos were very informative and gave more information and details to the things we were reading in the textbook. Notetaking was easy to do with the videos and they were easy to follow along and determine the main purpose.

I don't know how much can be done about it, though I think it would have been helpful if the videos had subtitles

No I thought it was pretty straight forward to understand and do. My only counterpoint to this is that there may be some questions that are hard to read or out of date (like word usage as an example). The videos were informative in my opinion and then I took notes on a notebook I own so it made the process pretty smooth sailing.

I think it really helped act as a refresher to what was in the text and gave me more of a visual look of how it was done.

Again, I didn't have the time to watch some of them and would have to skim the videos before taking the tests.

The videos were extremely helpful in giving context each week. Being able to visual the concepts from the textbook helped me a lot. I would definitely say the videos that were available on the LCC database with captions were most helpful. A few times a video said it was no longer available there, and it was certainly more difficult to follow. Still, I think every video was worth the watch and definitely relevant to the material, so it was clear to me why each one was assigned. 

I enjoyed the clips and felt they did a good job of reiterating the key points in the reading

It was helpful that I was able to rewatch the videos enough times to get the information I needed, although I experienced an issue with the video files. For some reason, they would only play on my phone’s browser, and not on my computer.

I was able to take notes, and I understood each video’s relevance to the class, but at times it felt like there may have been too much video content. I don’t think any of the video quizzes referred to every single video on the list, which was especially pronounced in the third quiz, which had more than ten videos assigned but only referred to about five of them.

I think everything provided and the set up of the videos was extremely useful 

online clips are good.

Just the one set of video clips is really tinny sounding which made it a bit hard to watch. and if you want to do quizzes on them they should be once a week and not like 4 weeks later so I have to rewatch them all again. 

For the most part it fit what the quiz questions asked. Sometimes though you had to piece a few things together to find the more definitive answer as it could be two answers.

The clips were fine and everything worked as expected. I was able to take notes and was able to make it easier by watching on my smart TV.

I think a major benefit to online courses are the flexibility to take them when you can. If the student can get the work done, I don't see why there should be more deadlines.

I personally liked how everything was due at the end of the week on Sunday. When I have more deadlines, it stresses me out more and causes me more things to have to remember. But, it wouldn't be the end of the world for me if there were more deadlines throughout the whole week. 

As college students an individual should be given an opportunity to do their best at a course and I don't believe that more deadlines or participation would be beneficial to the grades of anyone taking this course.

Yes. As adults, we take on more responsibilities than when we were in high school. Sometimes it does get hard to complete tasks earlier in the week.

I think it would be a good idea to implement another deadline during the week. I don't think adding more than one would be the best because of obligations that we have but I think having one other deadline like in the middle of the week would be good. It would motivate and get people to read the textbook and keep them on task. Too many deadlines would be stressful though I think, from my stand point. I know for me having a lot of deadlines throughout the week would be very hard as I work full time as well being a full time parent. 

My feelings about this idea are mixed. I understand and support efforts to increase participation, but the midweek can be pretty busy, and more school deadlines on top of it seems unnecessarily stressful. Maybe seeing if it could be done like the video quizzes? Where assignments could be done twice with a waiting period in between attempts? If possible, I think that could work well.

I think you basically hit the nail on the head to what you just typed about. I have numerous friends and former classmates who had life commitments/obligations to do so I think with a weekly deadline would likely be a way to go. Especially with some students being a father/mother and taking care of their children as an example.

I wouldn't mind either way

I do not support this proposal of deadlines throughout the week because the largest benefit of doing online classes is their flexibility. With work, family, and other classes, adding additional deadlines throughout the week would add additional, and undeeded stress to the course. Everyone that does their work on Sundays has their own study strategy and what works well for them, works well. I am personally someone who would do the majority of assignments on Sunday, however, I would study at my own pace throughout the week without going onto Cengage. 

I don't procrastinate on the assignments because I prioritize my other class assignments that have specific deadlines within the week or they take more time to do so I end up doing it all at the latest Friday's or Saturday's.

I would strongly encourage keeping only one deadline because it's easier for those like me to keep track of when certain things are due, especially with the work obsticals.

I would personally oppose this change. I think that the main reason a lot of people take online classes is because they don't have a traditional schedule that would allow them to attend school on a daily basis. I work two jobs and take online classes full time, so each class is a balancing act every week. I do struggle at times to keep up, but not for lack of deadlines. An increase in deadlines every week would take away the main benefit of online schooling for me personally- making my own schedule and working at my own pace.

I understand why you hold this position, and I do think it's probably true that engaging with the material in shorter sessions throughout the week could probably lead to better retention of the information. With that being said, I strongly believe that implementing more deadlines with an "adapt or die" approach as a deterrent to procrastination would do more harm than good. For lots of people online courses are their only viable option for pursuing an education, whether it be because they work a full time job, they're raising kids, they're struggling with their mental health, or any other number of "true" obstacles and in my opinion it doesn't seem worth it to alienate those people because their study habits aren't very good in your professional opinion, especially if the results are the same and they're able to maintain a satisfactory grade.

Adding multiple deadlines could give students guidance as to what kind of schedule they should use to complete their assignments. However, the more midweek deadlines you have, the more rigid the schedule becomes, which decreases the chances of everyone being able to meet them.

I think it could be a good plan but I also think that theres students who work or have other classes and that might make things stressful. 

I like not having things due in the middle of the week like all my other classes. then I can focus on work and other things and use the weekend for homework.

Enrolling in a fully online course (with out meeting times) is often because a person can’t meet set times and dates for personal reasons, but can plan a week ahead to figure out how the work fits in best for them. Adding in weekly, recurring deadlines would take that freedom away, especially if they study multiple classes at a time. I often broke my studying of classes into specific days and alternated, because I was taking 16 credits and that’s what helped me stay ontrack

as a full-time student. I find I can only spend a certain amount of time on each class, and often when. If all classes had due dates mid-week it makes it hard for a student to get everything done and not freak out. Then you add work or kids into the equation. it might be impossible. I myself spend often way too much time in this class. most 4 credited classes I did in two days yours took me 4 days often 12 hours plus with all the quizzes and whatnot. instead of having a day off a week, I found your class made me work 7 days a week to complete all my classes. don't add deadlines. This would make it crazy. 

I would find helpful to break it up - say Wednesday and Friday deadline for the exercises (depending on how many there are as some were way lengthier) and Sunday deadline for the chapter test.

I think it would be fine to have mid week requirements.

I just remembered to watch the videos and take notes throughout the book

Another class that has a similar idea is my chemistry class, and the teacher set up a Discord server where students can interact with eachother. It can be used as a study tool, and it's more like a forum.

I can't think of any other type of app or web based tool that would useful.

I don't use those unless absolutely necessary (which it hasn't been), so I can't offer much. Maybe it could be cool as a study option

Nothing comes to my mind regarding this question. I thought the google docs had great use.

tiktok and youtube

I think Discord (sort of an invite only, instant messenger/forum program) could be beneficial, but you would have to look into it and decide if it was right for your teaching style or not.

No, I haven’t used very many external tools in my classes; for the most part, they have relied entirely on Moodle.

Most other classes I use google docs a lot and spread sheet.

What you did was just awesome! The shared study list was truly amazing, and I was so grateful for it! My favorite part of our setup to help us be successful.

Some professors have Zoom meetings.

I think online courses are great for those who cannot make it to campus as frequently due to work/life circumstances. The only real negative I see is that it's much easier to get distracted when doing school from home.

It was a great class and a great professor. I like the online classes. MWF

I think for some classes, online classes work really well. It does create a more flexible option for people who have other obligations. I think it doesn't work as well for classes that are really hands on, like a "lab" class or such.

I didn't know this course was online when I registered and I would not ahve enrolled if I had known. I found it to be difficult and a lack of discipline was easy to struggle with. 

I consider online classes to be helpful for those students who might not have transportation or who doesn't like using the bus.

I think the social element is important if you like that kind of thing.

I might consider it. I think your in-person classes would be really in-depth.

I don't have a preference at this time.

I would consider enrolling in a class based course but as of right now that is almost impossible for me to do with my work schedule. I love that there are online courses that I can take. It makes managing school, work, and family life a lot easier. I like how this class was set up and organized. Distant learning can be hard but when it is well organized and students are given the right tools, I think it is just as good as a in class based course. Because most people have to work regardless, I think online course are a great option for them. I know it is for me. If I had to only take in person courses, I would not be able to continue my education because my job would not allow for that.

I consider online with no zoom to be just as good as completely in person courses,(though that just be me finding being in front of a camera extremely uncomfortable).
The social element of speaking generally isn't necessary for me, but it's not a hindrance (as long as it's not on camera)
I have been in classroom based courses and am comfortable with them
Currently my preferences for in person classes would be MW in late morning to early afternoon

Well... I wouldn't be surprised if more on-line classes are made available more in the future. It going to be the way of the future unfortunately but it does have its benefits like you stated in prior questions. Even after the time I graduate from LCC, I think there will be more options of online learning without the hybrid format and doing it on your time while LCC is chugging along.

I think they are just as good

I do not consider online classes to be just as good, because it is more difficult to retain information, and my preferred learning style is lecture. As far as preferences of in-class days go, it depends on the term and other class schedules and what section I would sign up for, I would attempt to leave as many hours/days open for work or outside-of-class obligations. 

I consider classes to be better since lectures are written out for me. I find it difficult to work in-person classes into my busy schedule and when I find myself in a class, all i can focus on is the list of things I need to be doing outside of class. It's easier to focus on my work at home and work around my own schedule.

With my schedule, in person schooling is not an option for me. I took a full year in person, and now have taken a full year online. I would consider online courses to be just as good as in person. I don't feel like I am missing out on a social aspect, but I can see how people could see this factor as a hinderance when considering online courses. When I do eventually have to transition back to in person courses required for my major, I hope to find an early morning class, preferably on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

I do agree that the social element is missing and would be nice but I don't think it's something that should be mandatory, because like I said in my response to a previous question if there were more implementations of deadlines, meeting times, or mandatory attendance the circumstances of my personal life put my ability to commit to things like that somewhat out of my control, and I wouldn't feel comfortable taking the class.

I think I generally prefer in-person to online classes, but I like one or two of my classes to be online because of their convenience and the reduced time spent commuting to campus. Generally, I think online classes are just as good as in-person ones.

I don’t have a preference for which days of the week the classes are offered, but I often avoid early-morning or evening classes, sticking to mid-morning or afternoon ones.

I personally  enjoy online classes, I like that I can take things at my own pace  but of course follow  the deadlines. 

some classes I prefer in person like math and art and some I like online like history. It just depends on the class.

1. Online classes can be just as good as in person but it fully depends on the content and the setup the professor has chosen to implement, 

2. Can be helpful but is not necessary, I take a mix of online and in person courses because they were required, but even when I was online only I never lacked social elements 

3. I am Almost finished with my degree and have had two classes required and only offered in person so I took those

4. I try to keep any in person classes to the same days, and typically that’s TuTh because I would like to have a schedule that alllows me to work full time 

I am agoraphobic so I take all classes online. I do not take any in person and I prefer to do all classes at home at my own pace without other people's distractions. I can rewatch videos at home and pause and think about what notes and answers I want to make.  I think most classes should be online. As ling as you are a self-motivator it is easy. 

I absolutely will never go back to sitting in a classroom. I was in a Charter Academy for high school, which was entirely online, so I feel that prepared me tremendously for better study habits and certain comfortability with being online, user friendly looking up assignments and using Moodle. I can't stand the on-campus time constraint or wish to hear everyone's mouth sounds smacking gum, or nervous ticks, or being stuck sitting behind someone's stench of smelling like a pack of cigarettes for 2 hrs., - I very much prefer the flexibility of an online setting. I can read and work on my weekly assignments and exercises at any time and sometimes when I couldn't sleep, I found myself drawn to reading my exercises often at 2am in the morning. Also, a perk is if you are not feeling well I could still at my own pace absorb online material and work on tasks whereas if I'm sitting in a class I would forgo going as to not spread germs and therefore would have missed out on what was said. I will only take online going forward into the future.

I have taken both online and in person. I find that some subjects it's important to have in class and some not.

Online classes are convenient because we can do homework whenever I want to. Some of them even start doing the following week's assignments and I prefer to do that. 

Although social element such as talking are discussing with people is important, we can gain those skills besides in- person classes.

Great class

I think this was a wonderful course and it was well done.

it'd be helpful to have major tests (video quizzes, exams) open for the full days instead of just 2 hours on 2 days. I think that would cause less likeliness of schedule difficulties for the tests

I think at least showing some type of gratification or acknowledgement at the term to the students like "Thank you for taking my course this term" or something really similar to that would really feel that, Students like me feel appreciated of using our tuition dollars, time commitments as well to emailing for clarification your our benefits while you're doing the same for us in terms of teaching the content of the course. I think that the students would have a smile at it. I never had any prior LCC teacher do some formality like that before, but I think it would be cool.

I think it was all good

Maybe not having video quizzes the same week as midterms or finals, as it's overwhelming when you have so many exams and projects to do in a short time frame. Also preferably less to no video quizzes. Maybe even add a feature where we are allowed to correct our answers on mindtap. I find that looking things over again gives me a better chance at learning. Otherwise, I like the class. 

I think this was a thorough course evaluation survey, and I don't have any specific improvement recommendations. 

I have nothing to add but I appreciate you giving us a space to make suggestions/critiques. It feels really good to know that your educators care because unfortunately not all of them do.

The survey might be improved by asking students if they would like more opportunities to discuss/study topics from class with each other. Although, since I generally prefer to study on my own, I probably wouldn’t take advantage of these opportunities.

I think everything went smoothly 

I don't think the midterm and final tests should be limited to a 2 hour window at a specific time. If they are timed tests anyway just make them available the whole day so we can take them whenever is most convenient instead of late at night or during another class the next day.

You have too much work for a 4 credit class. I feel this class should be written as a 5 or 6-credit class. I especially went nuts during the midterm. Just saying. 

I would have a Quiz study guide. This was my weakest part of my grade and having some brief bullet points of what each video is covering and more clear quiz questions as I mentioned before as sometimes it could be two answers. 

Overall great class! Learned a lot! Looking forward to the next one in the sequence next term!