Participation
Attendance alone does not support learning. Learning is a social process! Engaged participation is the most effective way to develop the learning you are pursuing by taking this course. The science of teaching and learning has shown that higher levels of participation correlate with higher grades, and lower levels of participation correlate with lower grades.
Credit toward course grades is earned by demonstrating participation and engagement in your learning, within this class. The more you engage and participate in class, the more you are investing in your learning, and your grade in the course.
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Demonstrating Engaged Participation
Engaged participation can be demonstrated in a range of ways and will vary by student, instructor, course and activity. In addition to supporting your learning of course content, engaged participation also supports the development of important professional skills, such as:
- Collaborating
- Generating new ideas
- Expressing ideas with professional vocabulary common in your area of study
Examples of engaged participation:
- Arriving on-time for a synchronous session or scheduled meeting
- Arriving prepared to engage in a discussion (e.g., readings done before class)
- Engaging peers in discussions and activities (i.e., in-class or online)
- Demonstrating use of relevant professional language
- Staying until the end of the class meeting (i.e., not leaving early)
- Completing assigned work (e.g., submitting exit tickets before leaving)
Remember, your participation demonstrates your engagement in your learning. You have control of the grade you earn in this class.
Participation Credit
Participation is more important than attendance, but Canvas tools can be limited. You may see "Roll Call" Canvas' Attendance tool, but don't get these confused. Remember, "attendance alone is not enough" to earn full credit for engaged participation. Roll Call can also be used by instructors who may use the photo seating chart function to help learn everyone's name, in small and medium sized classes.
Be aware, if you see Roll Call Attendance anywhere in Canvas, this is the name of an app being used as a tool. Course credit is earned through your participation.
What could influence my participation credit?
- Arriving late (e.g., missing an Ice Breaker discussion or activity)
- Disengaging collaboration (e.g., not participating or prepared to discuss, didn't read before class)
- Leaving early (e.g., missing an exit ticket or closing activity)
When setting up this participation assignment, in your settings, choose:
change Not Graded to Points (or other selection) for Display Grade as, and select No Submission for Submission Type.
- Display Grade As, and select any format except complete/incomplete & credit for each session
- Submission Type, and select External Tool in drop-down menu
- Find the Roll Call external tool in the list, click "Select," and then check "Load This Tool In A New Tab"
- Always Save in Canvas and publish when ready
Remember that the Roll Call app auto-generates a Roll Call Attendance Assignment in Canvas.