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Who is Macomb? Brief overview of Macomb.

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Macomb Statistics – Number of Students, Geographic locations, transfer agreements,

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Who are we? Brief background of Tom & Heather.

Tom joined the Center for Teaching and Learning in 2012. Prior to this, he was an adjunct faculty member at Macomb Community College. Additional teaching experience includes both on-ground and online modalities at various colleges and universities. Prior to entering education, Tom worked in the audio-video industry holding sales, rental coordinator and video production related positions. At the CTL he assists faculty with integrating technology into their curricula, facilitates workshops, creates professional development programs and supports quality course design. Tom holds a B.A. in Broadcasting from Central Michigan University and an M.A. in Communications from Wayne State University.

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Discuss the purpose of the CSSK class. What lead to the creation of the course?How are students placed in the course? The course was revised a few years ago. One change was that students are now evaluated based upon their scores for Reading, Writing and Math. Depending on the scores, they may be required to take the course. The course is also open to all students who are interested.

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As part of the revision, faculty and administrators from all disciplines were invited to teach. Training for all faculty was created and required before teaching the course. The training focused on teaching students who are not as academically prepared for college.

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The goal of the course is to better prepare students who haven’t performed well on the entrance exams. Also, make them aware of support mechanisms at the college and where they can obtain resources..

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We focus on a variety of explorations which provides activities which highlight areas of college support. This is a breakdown of the assessments and point values for the course.

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One of which is Exploration #3 which is what we’ll focus on today. Note that third exploration is worth 30 points – 15 for exploration and 15 for technology.

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Query the audience to get their feedback.

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Explain briefly how we handle the process of providing CSSK Canvas orientation at Macomb. This is the document Heather sends to the CTL to use for scheduling CSSK class visits. Representatives from the CTL visit each class to help familiarize students with Canvas and how to use it.

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This is a copy of the exploration that is listed in the textbook. The CTL visit covers all of these areas and more. One area in particular is the Username and Password. When possible we like to compete the activity in a computer lab so we can make sure all of the students can log into their Canvas account.

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This is the checklist that we follow when visiting the CSSK class to provide an overview of Canvas. It provides a few other areas the we discuss and demonstrate. They are setting notifications in Canvas, uploading the mobile app, importance of web browser updates, where to find help and the availability of the orientation course.

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This information indicates persistence rates for three types of students – those who were required to take CSSK and finished, those who were required but dropped the course, and those were deemed “at-risk” but didn’t take the class. The overall measurement includes grades for students who weren’t required to take the class but did anyway.

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This chart shows that grade point average for the same groups of students over the past few Fall semesters.

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This chart shows the average number of credit hours earned per term for the same groups of students.

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Questions?

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