Course Home Announcements

At the start of each term, students are greeted with a variety of announcements within the Course Home section.  The topics vary throughout these announcements although they are all intended to help the students succeed throughout the course.  The topics which are covered in the Course Home section are:

I include a video introduction discussing the course, helpful resources I offer throughout the class, the learning objectives of the class, and my teaching method.  Below is the video I created specifically for PHOA223: Advanced Lighting:

While teaching online, I found that having a really long post in the Course Home section may seem “overwhelming” to students.  To assist with this, I like to break up all the information that is important to review at the start of a course. Below, you’ll see my introduction post titled “Week 1: Announcements”; this post contains information that assists the students with guidelines for the course, the required equipment, and the student handbook.  There are a lot of guidelines for students to review; please click “here” to download a PDF with all guidelines.