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TCC: Tip of the Day - What our students are saying Part V

The Teaching and Creativity Center surveyed students about their experience with learning through this pandemic. Our intention is to highlight what practices are particularly effective and share student suggestions. These insights are gifts that we don't often have the benefit of receiving.

As the semester draws to a close, let's focus on improving these specific issues that students identified when asked, "What have faculty done that has been least helpful during this time?"

If I had to pick one thing, changing due dates through e-mail and not updating it on a mapped out document/calendar

understanding how much and why we need help

lack of online experience

Expect us to understand things so simply

Moving forward with group projects - very difficult virtually

not respond to emails

The videos are awful, very blurry, cuts in and out and I can hardly understand or see what they are doing

Pretended nothing has changed in the world and continue the same speed as before.

more busy work

Not as empathetic I think to changing schedules and what people are dealing with at home.

Some faculty need to update The due dates of things in blackboard... And have it be consistent and all Schedules listed

The only thing that I haven't preferred is our tests with certain instructors are taken one question at a time. This can be difficult to navigate through if you want to look at other questions as you have to go through the questions in order, and can't choose a question to go back and look at. The page also takes a second to load when going to the next question, and I just feel that a little more time should be allotted of this method must be chosen. I just have really not liked this method of testing! I love having all of the questions in front of me, and being able to look back at my work. I am not ungrateful, this is just something I haven't preferred.

Expected you to learn all the material completely by yourself using the textbook and powerpoints that the textbook company provided

not sticking to a schedule getting things out.

Some professors don't seem fully engaged as they are sometimes hard to reach and or don't respond

Not talked about expectations

It should be noted that many students responded to this question with a version of, "my faculty have been very helpful and this question doesn't apply to my experience!"

Attached Files:
student opinions.pdf

Eugenia Merliss
Teaching & Creativity Center
05/11/2020