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Monitoring Student Participation and Progress

Web courseware can provide instructors with extremely useful and detailed information about what students do with online materials. Instructors can use this information to modify the structure, pace, or content of the course.

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Instructors can view date and time of each student's first and last login
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Instructors can view a complete history of each student's time spent online in the entire course
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Instructors can view a graphic breakdown of the percent of total time online each student has spent on each page of content
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Instructors can view a graphic breakdown of the percent of total time online each student has spent on content areas  
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Instructors can analyze the class by combinations of information, such as students who logged in after a certain day and have posted a certain number of articles
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Instructors can view how many bulletin board articles a student has read
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Instructors can view how many bulletin board articles a student has posted
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Instructors can view a transcript of course chat room activity
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Student can view own grades
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Student can compare own grade to class summary data
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NIS  |  OIT  |  Boston University  |   July 14, 2003