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Track progress that students can see

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From the course: Learning to Teach Online

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Track progress that students can see

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- [Instructor] Another important thing to consider when designing your online course, is to ensure that you and the learners have a way to track progress. The goal of training is to ensure that the learners within the class attain certain skills or knowledge. So it's essential that you as the instructor, identify any gaps. Specifically, tracking student progress is important for a few reasons. First, it's important to provide learners with feedback on how they're doing. This will help them to see the concepts that they understand and which concepts they need to go back and revisit. As the instructor, this feedback helps inform your instruction. It's important to understand whether your class as a whole is attaining a level of understanding that you want, which is the goal of the training. If you notice that the entire class is failing to achieve a specific outcome, you may need to go back and reteach something or…

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