The honeymoon has now come to an end. We're a few weeks into the class, everything is set up with apps, workflow, and Schoology. It should all be now about the learning, but the problems keep popping up. Sometimes I feel I'm not teaching but playing one of those wack-a-mole games.
A typical example: we had our first quiz. Not a practice, not a dress rehearsal, but a real quiz on Schoology that assesses all our objectives and counts as a summative assessment. We're ready to start and....one kid can't log in. Another can't connect to Wi-Fi, and 3! come up to me and show me their screen showing they've already submitted the quiz! How can this be? What do I do? Do I hold off the whole quiz until we have 100% accessibility? Do I prepare paper copies in the event that this happens (seems like a damn good idea!) What about the ones who "submitted"? (still not sure how that happened).
The thing is, this situation is becoming all too common. The questions I'm getting are not the "I don't get this" kind of questions. They're the "I can't connect" "my IPad is too slow" "it won't work" kind of questions. I can't be focusing on this kind of stuff, I need to be giving my attention to the students not getting the concepts, having problems comprehending the readings, etc.
Aaarggh.
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