P1 | Tips for Recommended Items

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Pillar 1: Initial Student Experiences

Tips for Recommended Items

 

Items #13–15 are recommended. While they are not required to meet QCR expectations, utilizing these practices can enhance student experience and support learning.

Item #15 – Number of Hours Per Week

Include the expected number of hours per week in the syllabus, welcome message, in a Start Here/Orientation Module, or another place that is open to students at the start of the course.

Not sure how to estimate this? Use the Enhanced Course Workload Estimator Links to an external site. from the Wake Forest University Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Or follow the advice of Thomas J. Tobin Links to an external site.: Complete a given task yourself, and then add 50 percent. So if it takes you 30 minutes to read an article, estimate that the average student will read it in 45 minutes.