Do you require your students to attend office hours, One-to-one check-ins, or project consultations? If so have you struggled with grading them in a meaningful way? Follow this approach to easily communicate these graded course requirements and display the date and any brief comments you have. Then enter in a summary score for the overall section of the gradebook and apply to their final grade. This easy structure, is a quick organized and transparent process to tracking this data and a step toward making participating in these required appointment important.
The first minute of this screencast is comprised of an AI (Google NotebookLM) generated podcast, generated from presenter notes, that expands on and “hooks” the listener into why this topic is important for all online instructors who do these types of activiites.