While incredibly informative, this week's lesson by the Food Group was a tad overwhelming. As someone who's just getting used to eLC, I'm now open to a whole new world of online learning management systems. I mean, before yesterday, I still couldn't figure out how to use the gradebook feature. (Thankfully,someone else must have been wondering the same thing as it immediately went up on the whiteboard.)
In fact, right this literal minute, I am typing my blog post (quietly) as my students are taking their midterm exam. And if the grading feature hadn't come up in class yesterday, I would certainly have singled out Dr. Clouser before or after the class to figure things out. Talk about a nice, timley coincidence.
[Side note: As this is the first exam I've created for a class, I'm a bit nervous I made it too tough or too long. But I figured I'd rather err on the side of "difficult" and provide bonus points after the fact, rather than make it too short and too easy. "Hey, Adam, how'd your first exam go?" "Well, Professor, they all got 100s!" "Um, ALL of them?" Yeah, that seemed to be a far less interesting conversation than "You know, you might want to consider easing up on some of your questions, amigo..."]
Anyway, I'm all set to spend the next few days grading these midterms and setting up a gradebook on the good ol' electronic Learning Commons.
And you know what, I'll probably try to spice some other things up as well.
Until next time, sayonara!
