I truly appreciate this quest. I have been very curious as to how Georgia Virtual School provides teachers with ways to manage the class and view how students are progressing through the course material. As the charts show in the quest, teachers are provided with ample ways of viewing student participation in the online platform and how often they are logging in to the site. I love being able to view the number of times a student logs in to the course work and being able to see the number of assignments that are complete. The LMS seems to provide teachers with exactly the tools they need to help students be successful in the online classroom. As we have stated several times, data and feedback are some of the most important aspects of education. Providing feedback and teaching students to monitor their own learning is paramount to success.
Additionally, teachers of online students must keep a contact log. I always keep a contact log in my classroom for every time I make contact with parents whether it's for a positive or negative contact. I like the way the communication log in the quest includes the type of contact, the person contacted, the nature of the contact, the time stamp, and a place for a comment.
As far as things that the teacher could have done differently in the hypothetical course, I can't help but think that the students may have been struggling to complete the assignments due to trying to learn the online platform. The coursework was taken in the Fall semester of 2012, but according to their enrollment information, they did not take an orientation until the Spring semester of 2013. It is possible that they simply did not know how to find the required assignments and information.
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