Reflection of class on Feb.15^th

  As the author said, this chapter 3 is about “getting ready to launch your course.” In the process of reading and building my own online course according to some suggestions from chapter, I got some new ideas about my AR course and almost finished the basic structure of it.

  As you know, I just finished the syllabus of my AR course with blank in other areas such as assignments, discussions and announcements because I was not sure the distinct orientation and suitable style of my AR course. Fortunately, I defined my online course as the supplement of physical class and the effective way to distinctly identify students’ work in class and after class in the end.

  In this case, after I finished segments of course credit and grading scale in my syllabus, I established a home page for my AR course to gather students’ interests and help them construct a fundamental realization about AR before they were available for accessing this course. I really like the function of this custom-designed content page because I can almost do anything on this page by using the rich content editor and apply it as the homepage of my course.

  I also invited Sam, Sunny and Angela as students in my course although Sunny was not ready to accept my invitation when I wrote this reflection. Well, It’s not a problem because I could still do some operations on her such as adding her as a student in my different course groups. And she would easily know which group she will be classified in after she accepted my invitation and get access to my course.

  To specify the course credit, I established some relative assignments and classroom discussion for students to accomplish to identify their learning and collect their feedback for later refinement of my course. Because I set the beginning time as March 1^st, I couldn’t have a look about how students access to assignments and discussion by examining my course in student view belongs to Settings function. I’ll do it later after I modified the beginning time to a valuable figure. By the way, the discussion and assignments I preset for my course would be displayed in the course calendar automatically as long as I set the due time for them.

  Although my AR course is not perfect now because I have not enriched enough contents in it, I believe that I can use this LMS to teach AR in physical eight grade classroom and refine my work by collecting authentic feedback online. 

  A powerful LMS do make teaching clearer and more interesting comparing to traditional class preparation. I have experienced it a lot by working on canvas.