Weekly Evaluations

These are small formative assessments meant to guide learning throughout the course. These evaluations will gauge your understanding of the course concepts and encourage you to stay on top of the material.

Quizzes (due Mondays)

There will be 8 online quizzes—worth a maximum of 3 points each—to complete for this course. They will become available on Brightspace January 6, 2025, at 9AM and will be due Mondays. Quizzes will comprise ~15 multiple-choice questions (pulled randomly from a bank of ~100 questions). There will be no time limit on quizzes, and you may attempt each quiz as many times as you’d like within the availability window. You will receive feedback after each attempt. Your highest attempt will be your final grade for each quiz.

Weekly Reflections

Students have been enrolled into Peer Pods, which is a group of ~50 students with whom you will reflect and discuss course content. Throughout the course, there will be 8 discussion prompts available to you (one for each content Module).

These reflections have two main components: (1) a reflection post (due Tuesdays), (2) responses to a peer’s post (due Wednesdays). Each discussion prompt will become available on Brightspace to you as soon as you have completed the accompanying Module. You will need to post your own reflection before interacting with the rest of the reflections from your peers.

Reflection opportunities will close three times throughout the semester.

Reflection Wrap Up (due Friday 28 March)

While students do not earn points for contributing to the discussion boards throughout the semester, they will earn 4 points for completing their Reflection Wrap Up toward the end of the semester. This is meant to be a highlight of your favourite online interaction from the semester. Which weekly reflection interaction did you learn the most from or which one was more memorable? Students must have participated in the Weekly Reflections to be eligible to submit their Reflection Wrap Up.