I think the reading could benefit from being more precise and including less extra detail and information. Overall, it was good.

It was good. Overall this course was well done 

I was very satisfied with the textbook I liked how we had access to everything and that our weekly assignments were all together. I felt like it was easy to read but i also felt that it jumped around a bunch in some areas.

good book

This text book was so hard for me to get through. Part of this may be due to my own attention span but I found the way it was written to be so dull and void of life. I love learning about history but and often find myself watching history documentaries just for fun, this book was rough though. I did try using the "read it allowed" option numerous times and always fount myself completely tuning it out and thinking about something else, the robotic, monotone voice did not help, it also was constantly lagging and I never wanted to play again after a page had finished. 

The use of the Cengage app as well as the online textbook was very useful. I really liked that the chapters applicable to the course and what we were learning was divided into sections to make it easier as a student to navigate and learn the necessary parts. Mindtap was really a very good asset to the course, especially it enabling to highlight important sections and get automatic flashcards about each section which makes it very beneficial when studying. 

I think the ha book was good and the activities at the end of each chapter helped me understand the content 

I personally liked it a lot. I liked the whole layout, was always very easy to see how I graded, what is due and what needs to be done. Made it very easy to keep up. My biggest complaint is sometimes the language is just wordy and hard to understand, so I had to find a way to "dumb down" a few paragraphs to remotely grasp what was being said. That's frustrating. And also, the tests at the end of the chapter were always not about what you just read. They include a name you read, but a completely different topic about them that you wouldn't know anything about. That was frustrating a few times because why am I guessing on fill in the blanks when it's all based purely on assumption of what the person would say or do? Why am I marked down for assuming he'd say something different when I should've assumed the other answer? What am I being tested for, because it's certainly not what I just read. I get it but I also don't. The test should be 9/10 what you just read, and 1/10 the guessing game. Kind of sucked to watch my grade go down because of that even if I read and understood the whole text. But overall I liked mindtap! 

I thought it was good, worked well for me.  I dont like reading on a screen, so being able to print helped

I liked most parts of the textbook, it sometimes seemed to go way into depth about irrelevant things. My biggest complaint about it were the test, the questions were weirdly asked, and seemed too vague. 

MindTap is great! Very helpful and time better spent than with a textbook in hand at home. 

I thought it was very clear and concise. I was always able to read it perfectly, when doing my assignments.

I LOVED the highlight feature. That was extremely helpful. I did not use any other features. 

I actually enjoyed the material I read, and at times found that the text was humorous. At certain points, there was definitely some details of material that I actually looked up on a separate cite because the book didn't explain it at all. 

I do think it was A LOT to read, but like I said, I had a very busy schedule. It was detailed information, and obviously, it worked out because I passed. 

I would have liked to have the transcript for the videos as well or perhaps subtitles as sometimes it was hard to understand what was being said at times.

Everything is good 

I think there was enough background information for the videos. It was nice to rewind the clip and pause them, but is there a way to get captions on the videos? I saw how they related but I honestly was confused on what to take notes of from the videos. 

nope

I found the video clips a huge help and really enjoyed watching them, the videos ended up being the primary way I learned the material. My one criticism is the video quizzes, a large amount of the questions on the quiz had nothing to do with the overall theme, or the cause and effect, but instead asked about things like direct quotes from historians, or fill in the blank questions where you needed to know exactly which word was said. This also rendered my pages of video notes nearly useless. 

It was definitely very helpful that we had these videos on a document layout and get to watch them in our time and was able to go back and pause on it. I was able to take efficient notes. After watching the weakly videos, it gave me a clearer understanding of the weekly work and topics we covered. 

Nope 

I was actually extremely frustrated with the tests for the videos. I watched them thoroughly and took pages of notes, but when it came to the test, the questions did not usually refer to what video it was (so I'm scrambling through pages of notes hopelessly for the answer). I think it'd be insanely helpful to include the video name, or better yet, "video 9 on week 8". After failing a test when I took pages of notes I just stopped trying to take notes because it seemed very pointless for so much time wasted. I don't think it was lack of my note taking skill, just poorly done questions after a few rounds of the video quiz tests. Would also really help to maybe put them in order if you don't want to name them. I don't know it just frustrated me awfully. I don't mind the videos the videos themselves were interesting and helpful but the tests were frustrating. 

The week 9-10 video quiz contained some questions, that I dont recall seeing a video for.  But that could have been me.  Otherwise, all great. Thank you

no feedback

None. I like them. 

The video clips were clear and easy to take notes on.

I think the clips were good, but it was hard to keep up with the amount of information and videos I had to watch. Maybe it was my busy schedule, but I personally could not take the test twice, I just didn't have time to do that. Which sucked because I wish I could have utilized the 2 attempts. You're probably wondering if I managed my time, yes, I did, I did the absolute best I could. It just wasn't an option for me. I accidentally missed a test due to family emergencies, thank goodness it's only 20% of our grade. 

I think the additional information was slightly helpful. I honestly found that a lot of it was very repetitive. I did think that the interviews were cool and interesting! I did enjoy hearing from real people about their experiences because it wasn't coming from a textbook.

But I did understand why these were assigned. Despite my opinions, I do think these gave us more of an understanding of the context of what we were learning, although, I think the videos could have been just optional information or assignments. 

I never used the zoom but i think it is still a good option for those students who may need it 

I think it doesnt even have to be a weekly zoom, but maybe a video that gets posted every week that is a small lecture. I learned from just reading and watching the videos but I feel like i could have taken more away from the course

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I had another class where the teacher posted zoom videos each week going over what needed done and then would have a special assignment in each video which I didn't really like because have the time the videos where more drawn out than they needed to be. I think your weekly video setup was way more effective

I don't care for zoom calls as I didn't need personal 1v1 help, but great tool to have when needed. I would dislike mandatory ones. 

I didnt use it, and that is fine.  I would not want mandatory.  Its important to remember that online courses exist for a reason.  I have a full time job, am married, with two kids.  I am in my 40's and never attained my degree.  Having online  courses allow me to flex my time and manage all the important areas of my life. 

i like zoom for office hours. For an online class it seems unfair to have a required time to meet on zoom. 

I'm not accustomed to taking online courses so I'm new to zoom and all of this. It's seemingly a great option for students whom are very busy schedule wise and don't have time to drive in to campus to meet. 

In another class I had, there was a time where we were required to schedualle a short zoom meeting, so the professor would go over our essays and give feedback. I thought it was really helpful, and so I think it's a cool thing to do for online classes.

As I've said before, I am working full time. During this term I have had minimal need to reach out to professors for any issues or questions and if I did, I simply emailed them, and the response was quick. 

People have varying schedules and times they can complete things, there should be a given amount of time to for people to work in.

I think that having everything due on Sunday give us enough time to get everything finished 

I think midweek deadlines would be effective because it does set more of a schedule so their is less procrastinating.

It would help them get things done on time

I had a TBI a couple years ago, coupled with some mental health issues I have a very hard time remembering things. Having one due date each week makes it much easier for me to remember when I need to get work in. I could see how this could help with my tendency to procrastinate, but with your no late work policy it could easily result in students like me failing. 

I have a job as well as going to school and so it was nice to be able to have the weekend to do my online work. Towards the end of the class I tried to get my work done earlier in the week because I would rush through getting it all done over my weekend  because I notice I wasn't retaining the information like I needed to. So I agree that people should be getting it done earlier but I also understand the need to have the weekend to get work done especially when you have a job on top of taking in person classes 

Haha please don't require a different deadline. Some weeks I was finished by Tuesday, some I was rushing to complete by Sunday. It was so much less stress to have a given list that's due, and finding time in my schedule, but if I can't find time one day, I have the next. Some student's poor planning shouldn't take away from this really nice set up. I did amazing personally with the week worth of work, it gave me more than enough time to properly study and get them done and worked amazing with my schedule. I liked that most about this class.  

Again, I have many other non negotiable priorities.  I am looking to attain my degree to further advance my career.  Being able to have a day that allowed me to complete tasks fully and not sporadically throughout the week was extremely helpful.  It reduced my anxiety, I was able to read throughout the week 

i think that some people learn differently and have a lot other obligations, if they are getting a good grade than I don't think it matters. 

It would be a double edge sword. I was taking 19 credits this term. 15 here and 1 course at Linn Benton. It would force people to procrastinate less which is a plus no doubt! However, it would also seemingly punish those that are both working and going to school or taking a ton of classes like me and make their work deadlines needlessly more complicated.

I'm a procrastinator, so when I have a hard deadline, no matter when it's set, I always do it last minute, so perhaps it's actually a good way to enforce regular work-doing.

I did have some times where the weekends were the only time that I was able to complete these assignments. This was due to me working as I need to keep my lights on!  

I gradually got better with my time management, but depending on the week and my other classes, it was difficult to manage. 

For me waiting until the weekend wasn't out of laziness or procrastination, this was just the unfortunate hand I was delt with my job. If I did have any assignments with this class due during my week, I don't think it would have ended well. I took online courses for the sole purpose to be able to work full time AND take classes. This class already had a ton of reading to do, I would not recommend the mid-week due dates, but if you do end up doing something like that in the future, make sure to state in the syllabus, or the start of the term, that this class would not be for them due to the number of due dates and hours they need to put in this class. 

I appreciated the extra credit opportunities as other classes did not do them, though I would prefer if they were not in video format as it can be a lot more tedious to learn from a video compared to reading the information on a page.

Peer Reviews.

I think your extra credit opportunities were good, but I think if the answers to the questions are so specific and we dont get extra credit if we dont get a 90 or above its not as appealing. I think we should have to submit the paper with the questions we answered while watching the video and take the test.

I wish there were more opportunities because of your no late work policy 

I found myself having to pour so much time into just getting the mandatory assignments in this class done that extra credit wasn't even an option, especially when it was such few points for so much work. 

I just didn't have time for the extra credit assignment however I do like the option of having them there incase I have free time at the end of the week. 

I don't know since this is such an online course, but art projects would be a really fun extra credit. Like a historical event drawn, the feelings, the people, the different scenes, you could do a lot with an extra credit assignment like that. And no offense, I think a lot more students would enjoy that. Not for all extra credits, but maybe one or two. I didn't really find time to do extra credit because I personally have been busy and adjusting to college, but I also didn't notice them often. Maybe announce them louder if you know what I mean? 

I have no thoughts here

the extra credit opportunity looked way over done and time consuming for 1% point back, in my opinion. I think you need to make it less complicated, like maybe a paper about one of the presidents, or a war. 

I only attempted one of them I believe just for lack of time that I had. I felt it was a fair opportunity the way you presented it. 

Maybe it would be cool to ask a couple questions about the material that hasn't been asked in the other assignments.

A quick assignment would have been nice, not an hour-long video. I get home super late most nights, so when I do my homework, it's only for an hour or two, and I don't have much time to do extra credit assignments that require additional hours of work. I definitely chose to work on my assignments that were actually important to my grade unfortunately.

I do not know

No i used my computer 

No I've only used ones that we used in this class

nope

Not that I can think of. I do wish that the study guides for each exam pinpointed the actual information that we needed to know however. They ended up being so broad and covering so much material that I had a full mental breakdown while trying to get through them and also study for my other exams, only to find that over half of the information wasn't even on the test. 

None that I can think of. All of the apps/ web-based tools have been mentioned above.

I think google docs is fine 

You know those group questions? Where you upload a question, and a response is needed? I think that'd be neat for a small portion of the grade. Maybe a check in and ask people their opinion and what stood out and what was interesting every week after a chapter. Would be nice to check in and see other students responses and respond to them too. I highly suggest this idea! 

Not to my knowledge

quizlet

None. 

No, I think moodle and google are great platforms for teaching and learning.

No, only my laptop. 

It worked well for me. My other instructor did the same thing, and it is good.

I think that this worked out well, I  never had any issues with this style of moodle 

I think the calendar was nice, I didn't subscribe because I have my own way of keeping track of assignments but I referred back to it a lot.

worked very well

I appreciated the organization of this course and all of the email reminders that were sent. 

This course was very well organized and I would not change a thing with the organization thereof. As someone who prefer to have a list of all the work/tasks I should do, this was very beneficial having the layout already there and not having to spend time on making my own list. 

I think everything you did was set up fine I had no issues with it 

Personally it's laid out very well and not so overwhelming. I dropped another class for having hundreds of links and unorganized tabs because it immediately threw me down a spiraling stressed pit. So I appreciated the simple, but clear, way of organizing what's due and where to find things. I sometimes get caught up using Mindtap though, and a few times have not realized the video quiz was due this week or that an extra credit could've been done. Maybe emails for those things would be helpful, because typically, I don't go to your Moodle page to access Mindtap, I just go straight to Mindtap. 

This worked great!

it worked good

I liked it. It's the first course I've had with anything like it. 

I thinked it worked great because organization makes it way easier to know what is need to be done.

Ehhhh, I mainly used the LCC course to locate any additional resources, or I looked it up. I used moodle mainly to do those specific assignments. 

I believe the textbook was very useful for learning, however I think that the price may be a little too steep for many, if the price were to be lowered in some way, I think then more people would use it.

I do not have the money to buy more books. this isn't my only class and book prices are on the high end. If these were free of charge I would like the idea of using multiple sources 

I think some free online materials are nice but I have had a bunch where you dont get the full information or what you said dead links. I think even though textbooks or textbook websites can be expensive but I think that a majority of them are worth the price especially if you have a hard copy.

I like textbooks that way all the information I need is in one place

I would prefer to have a set textbook where we could find all of our necessary coursework on there already, work that both me and my instructor know if factually correct. Going into different links to find coursework would make courses much harder when it comes to navigating it all, possibly being a risk for getting the right information and maybe the problems that can occur with the accuracy of free online sites. I understand that it is difficult for some students to pay the fees for the necessary textbooks, but I do feel that one textbook with all of our work really makes our coursework easier. 

Most of my classes ive had to buy a text book for but I also have other professors who write their own material and post it as weekly readings so that students don't have to buy the text books. That takes a lot of time for them to do so I don't ever expect that from a professor but its something you could think about doing to transition from text books if that's something you're interested in 

I think like everything can be accessed online now, but especially history. I don't think a change like that would be too drastic for this class, and personally, I prefer everything online, especially my reading. It's easier to access, won't kill my back backpacking it around lol, and easier to read and highlight. I loved the textbook for this class being online how it was. I wish all my classes did that and wouldn't mind a full shift to online readings, but yeah, physical textbooks have their perks too. I just prefer online. 

It is nice to not have that additional cost.  I feel the way I have used them in the past work well for my goals.  But, if i have to buy a textbook, I will.  I am not in a position where I could not do that. 

i have had classes where they had power points, but I don't how well that would work for this class.

I'd rather save money, plus electronic textbooks are much easier for me. I'd be willing to put in a little extra time to pay less. 

I'm always happy when free online textbooks are used just for the purpose of saving money. I'm still willing to buy course materials if it's required because I think it's just part of taking a college course. Reading online is easy because you don't have to dig through books in real life to find a specific one.

I LOVED the mindtap, I did not mind purchasing the book. I came into college knowing that I was most likely going to need to purchase textbooks. To my surprise, some of my classes had free versions (SCORE!) but for this course, and the way it's set up, I think the mindtap was nice. It was simple and easy to understand. I have found that the weekly quizzes helped me understand the material better with the immediate grade. This helped me know what I needed to study more. 

I do have a printer, by the way. I ended up printing a few of my notes, maps, etc. That was nice but not absolutely needed. 

I have no other questions or recommendations.

I dont not have any questions 

I think for the video quizzes having the answer be so specific, like one word from a whole video was a little hard especially when trying to take notes on the videos.

none

I wouldn't recommend this online course because the text book was so hard for me to get through, I did enjoy the material though and I have a feeling this would be a really awesome course to take if I got to listen to lectures instead. I was disappointed with the fact that we learned about Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh but never talked about Clyde Pangborn. He was my granny's cousin and he was an amazing aviator but he never seems to be mentioned. 

I thing something that would really benefit this course is to have an overview video presentation every week of the coursework that are covered in that week. 

I think this course was fairly straight forward any problems I had came from external issues in my personal life I struggled with over this term but this class being straight forward really helped me get through this term in one peace 

I am a freshman. I have never used Moodle or gone through midterms or finals and never done an online course like this. I felt every time I reached out to you I was made out to be wrong or asking a dumb question. If I am asking a question, where something is, what time is it at, etc, I am genuinely lost and exhausted of options. I refrain from bothering any teacher unless I really cannot find the answer myself. It may seem obvious to you where the answer is, but it just isn't for some people especially freshman's first year here. I think coming across more friendly over those Moodle/emails would help lol. No hard feelings it was just hard to ask for some help or understanding and being told "You should've looked here" instead of "It's here, along with this and this, so you don't need to ask again". See? But overall was a good class and I enjoyed it. Will be taking more online courses because I enjoyed this one. 

You are a very thorough and thoughtful teacher.  Honestly, one of the most I have experienced at LCC.  Thanks for your effort. 

i just didn't like mindtaps test questions, they seemed too vague at times.

None. Thanks for all the work you put into the course for us students. It was well structured and I can very much tell this isn't your first rodeo so-to-speak! =)

I thought cengage leaning is cool, but I always like when all the material from a course is all put onto moodle.

I completely understand and agree with you that students need to manage their time, but I think maybe you should think about letting some assignments to be turned in late with a deduction. This term I did have an unfortunate family emergency, and this caused me to miss a video quiz. I am fully taking the blame and not at all saying I deserved any second chances. It would have been really nice to be able to take the test, but as the syllabus states, no late work is tolerated. 

Overall, I have no complaints other than that. This was a good class, I liked the way it was set up, times assignments were due and the fact that this was all at my own pace.