In both online and face-to-face lecture sections, Wilson urges students to follow a standard weekly format. Students use the program for reviewing new concepts and content understanding, homework assignments, practice, exam preparation, quizzing, and all course assessments. The program is used both at home on a personal computer all students and in a lab setting face-to-face lecture students. The option to create a coordinator course in MyITLab-allowing every instructor to use the same content around the same learning objectives and outcomes, with the same assignments, schedule, and assessments-was an advantage that Wilson, as the new lead instructor, found important while making their decision.īeing able to manage the many sections and instructors allowed Wilson to define a course where grade consistency could be achieved regardless of format or instructor. Desiring consistency of content across all sections in an attempt to give every student a similar course experience, Wilson and colleagues reviewed MyITLab as a replacement for the problematic program they had been using. Instructors were obligated to hand-grade homework, quizzes, and tests for the final eight weeks of the semester. The product experienced a complete failure, forcing the instructors at PTC to abandon the program mid-semester and complete the remainder of the year without a homework or assessment platform. Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to. The course is open to all students in all programs, with 75 percent of the students pursuing an associate degree. The remaining credit hours are accomplished through online work. Classes are offered in, and week terms, with face-to-face classes meeting twice a week for 2.
Introduction to Computers is a three-credit, one-semester course offered face-to-face and online, enrolling over students each year.
Instructor MaryLou Wilson has been at Piedmont Technical College sinceteaching full-time for the past ten years, and teaching the Introduction to Computers course for 15 years.