{"id":1022,"date":"2012-03-15T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2012-03-15T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:47:14","slug":"feedback-and-communicating-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2012\/03\/15\/feedback-and-communicating-with-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback and Communicating with students."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to communicate with your student cohort out of class time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guess you know you can issue <strong><em>Announcements<\/em> <\/strong>and <strong><em>Emails<\/em><\/strong> through your NILE module directly to your students, but ever thought about using student-led communication tools like\u00a0<strong><em>Discussion Boards<\/em><\/strong>, to continue communication and debate, and get feedback from your students outside of class time?<\/p>\n<p>You might also know that by creating <strong><em>groups<\/em><\/strong> of students in your module, you can allocate them their own discussion boards, blogs and wikis to work on collaboratively. But don&#8217;t forget you can also use these for peer support, and for delivering group feedback. Imagine how it would improve communication and feedback within the module cohort.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you can personalise the student learning experience by creating <strong><em>private journals<\/em><\/strong> for students to post their thoughts, feedback and experiences. Only you can see their entries and reply to them if you wish. You can even use this to create a confidential &#8216;backchannel&#8217; in the lecture theatre &#8211; if students are unsure on any of the points you&#8217;ve made, they can raise a question from their laptop or smartphone without identifying themselves to the rest of the cohort.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at these <a href=\"http:\/\/ondemand.blackboard.com\/communicate.htm\">video tutorials<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nile.northampton.ac.uk\/webapps\/blackboard\/content\/listContent.jsp?course_id=_7937_1&amp;content_id=_460622_1\" target=\"_blank\">User Guides<\/a> to look into these aspects more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to communicate with your student cohort out of class time.<\/p>\n<p>Guess you know you can issue Announcements and Emails through your NILE module directly to your students, but ever thought about using student-led communication tools like\u00a0Discussion Boards, to continue communication and debate, and get feedback from your students outside of class time?<\/p>\n<p>You might [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-un-case-studies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Feedback and Communicating with students. - Learning Technology Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2012\/03\/15\/feedback-and-communicating-with-students\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feedback and Communicating with students. - Learning Technology Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How to communicate with your student cohort out of class time. 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