Instructor presence in online courses is crucial for student success. The instructor plays an important role in student satisfaction in online courses. SHSU Online instructors interact with students in discussions, virtual office hours, feedback, and other important ways. One facet of instructor presence in online courses is feedback for the student’s submitted activities/assessments. Most of this instructor feedback has been textual in nature. Instructors generally type in their comments and try to personalize the text they use when doing so.
For some time now, instructors have had the ability to provide feedback with other tools (audio/video/etc.), but it has been complicated. Recording a video somewhere else, selecting a mash-up, or pasting embedded code in the appropriate place was how more personalized feedback could be given.
Blackboard’s Insert Recording Feature
One of Blackboard’s latest feature releases allows instructors to record and insert an audio or a video recording right into the feedback area for a Blackboard gradable item. Watch this short video to learn how to provide audio and/or video feedback to your students seamlessly with the Insert Recording tool.
Best Practice Alert
You don’t have to do a video/audio feedback recording for every grade! Limit how many you do during the semester. Here are a couple of strategies to get you started:
- Make a list of your students and decide how many times you will leave video or audio feedback during the semester. Use checkboxes to keep track.
- Select a small number of activities where you will provide this more personalized feedback and use the tool on them.