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Appendix VII. Student Online Readiness Course - Are You Ready? At the start of the Fall 2020 semester, CUNY made available a resource designed to help prepare students for online learning. Initially developed by Hostos, the Student Online Readiness Course Are You Ready?, is an award-winning Blackboard-based training course. Are You Ready? uses videos, quizzes, and a practice assignment to provide students with an understanding of the basic functions and activities they will encounter during their online education at John Jay College. The training course takes an average of 30 – 40 minutes to complete and is broken into 5 sections: ⦁ Welcome to CUNY Online Learning Basic Technology Proficiency Using Blackboard Technology Requirements Netiquette At the start of the training, students are asked to complete a brief self-assessment. This helps them determine their suitability for online learning and will identify any areas that may need improvement for the student to succeed in their courses. Students must complete all activities in a section before being allowed to move forward. This ensures that the student completes the training with a better understanding of how to navigate their courses throughout their educational career at CUNY. In order to ensure that our students can benefit from this training, it is important that we work together to provide as many students as possible with this resource. We ask that you help us by: ⦁ Promoting this resource to faculty. Many have offered it as an extra credit assignment at the beginning of the semester. The Blackboard Support team developed a webinar with step-by-step instructions, which can be found on our webinar webpage: http://jjay.cuny.edu/online-education-support-webinars ⦁ Promoting this resource to academic advisors. Please consider adding it to early advising sessions and followup sessions where the student is struggling with Blackboard use. ⦁ Adding information about the training organization to your distance learning resource pages and communications. While a formal evaluation of Are You Ready? has not yet been conducted, the Blackboard Support Team has reported a reduction in support tickets from courses that have implemented it. The more students who complete the training, the more opportunities we will have to assess the effectiveness of the course. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions about Are You Ready? Student Online Readiness Course - Are You Ready? Student Online Readiness Course - Are You Ready?,
Best regards, Nicole DeBonet and Ritu Boswell JJAY Campus Are Your Ready? Coordinators Faculty/Staff contact: blackboard@jjay.cuny.edu Student contact: blackboardstudent@jjay.cuny.edu
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