With this particular assignment, students can earn 10 points via class participation. When you write your peer responses, you want to make sure that you are following your professor's Posting Guidelines, which should be posted within the "Course Home" section of your online classroom. These are the Posting Guidelines as seen within the courses that I teach:
Since the discussion boards serve as our venue for sharing information, we need to use them properly. That means that we must be sure to answer the question; we must comment on the postings of our classmates; we must use the language of the text; and, we must write posts of at least 100 words.
As you may have noticed, all online courses are predicated upon interactive feedback. In effect, shared comments on the work of the week, or on our classmates' ideas will generate dialogue and create a conversation. And, the more you write on the discussion board, the better your writing will become. So, before posting to the discussion board, it is a good idea to proofread your work. Make certain that your post is written in complete sentences and that there are no errors in it. Doing so will give you an opportunity to practice communicating effectively.
When you give feedback to at least two classmates’ initial posts in the forums, be sure to:
- Say something positive about the post (what was done correctly).
- Say something critical about the post (what could be done better).
- Say something encouraging about the post (what has improved or will improve next time).
Please be sure to keep in mind the due dates for your 'peer response' posts. Your peer responses make up a portion of your grade and occur in "real time"; late posts are not accepted.
Students are also encouraged to respond back to the professor's feedback before grades are posted within the grade-book; this also makes up a portion of the student's grade. Keep in mind that grades are posted within the grade-book 48 hours after the due date of the peer responses.