This week's tip is authored by Jonathon Little of Chemistry & Geosciences.
Professors and students can save thousands of pages of paper per semester by grading electronically. MCC’s technology infrastructure provides students and professors with a network to save, share, and grade documents. This past semester, I electronically graded essays for four Geography classes. Students submitted their rough draft and final draft (*.doc) by saving their work to their student storage. This saved about 1000 pages of paper this semester. Professors have access to each student's class folder (e.g., GEG 101). Please go to the following web sites to:
1) Learn how professors can access each student's class folder
<https://web.monroecc.edu/manila/webfiles/jlittle/documents/Faculty-AccessingStudentsFolder.doc>
2) Learn how students can access and work from their student storage
<https://web.monroecc.edu/manila/webfiles/jlittle/documents/SavingToStudent-Storage.doc>
Besides saving paper, students may misunderstand a professor's comments on a paper when the comments are short and cryptic or when students cannot decipher the handwriting. Using computers can alleviate these two problems.
It takes a while to get used to providing feedback electronically, but it can be learned fairly quickly. For more information on providing feedback in Microsoft Word, go to: <https://cai.ucdavis.edu/caihandouts/writingwithmword.html>
Jonathon Little
Geography Instructor
Chemistry and Geosciences Department
Matthew Fox
Sustainability Committee
05/07/2008 |