Purpose

Academic Status Reports (ASRs) are one way faculty instructors can provide students with early, personalized feedback about a student’s progress in a class. ASRs can provide positive feedback and are used to identify students in need of extra support. Instructors teaching 100 and 200-level courses are expected to generate ASRs early and often.  

This video demonstrates how to submit an ASR through My ASU. After opening a course roster, instructors can assign either a letter grade or a "Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory" status to one student at a time or an entire group. They can select from a menu of clarifying reasons or enter their own. Finally, instructors can suggest next steps for support. Students are notified weekly through My ASU and via system-generated emails when they receive an ASR.

Resources

• Faculty Guide: Academic Status Reports

iClickers can be used to take live attendance, polling, and quiz results from participating students during a class session. Courses created in iClickers can be connected to the instructor’s Canvas course, allowing for grade syncing which will create grade columns and populate scores in Canvas automatically.

**Before starting, create an iClicker instructor account using your ASU email, then create the course that will be connected to a Canvas course.**

Resources: 

• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

iClickers can be used to take live attendance, polling, and quiz results from participating students during a class session. After integrating, or connecting, a Canvas course to the iClickers course, instructors can easily sync grades that have been collected from class sessions to their Canvas gradebook. iClickers will create grade column(s) in the gradebook with each students’ respective score(s). The instructor will need to sync grades to Canvas each time new activity or scores are updated in iClickers.

Resources:

• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Question Banks are a question pool system allowing instructors to reuse quiz questions in multiple quizzes or exams. Question Banks only need to be created once, then they can be pulled to other courses or copied over.

Resources:

• How do I create a question bank in a course?
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

The “View” option in the New Gradebook allows instructors to change ways they see the gradebook by either column, rows, or certain criteria. Use the features on a needs basis and decide what will help you view the gradebook in the best way. View updates in the New Gradebook are for instructors, they do not affect the view for students.

Resources:

• New Gradebook Guide - Table of Contents
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Extra points, or credit, can be allotted to a student’s grade box on an assignment when needed. Please communicate grade calculations to students when this is performed to avoid final grade confusion.

**Steps are performed using the New Gradebook, if your gradebook looks different, please adjust steps as needed**

Resources:

• How do I give extra credit in a course?
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

Peer Reviews in Discussions function similarly to Peer Reviews for online assignments. Students will still initially post their thoughts relating to the discussion prompt. However, they will additionally provide comments and possibly rubric scores on their classmates’ posts. Rules and examples should be provided by instructors on how peer reviews must be completed for optimum feedback and participation. 

**Rubric scores from peers will not populate into a student’s assignment grade. The instructor must provide the grade themselves for a student to earn credit. In addition, grades cannot be automatically allotted to completed peer reviews. Instructors must create a separate, no submission, graded assignment to enter scores into
 

Resources:

• How do I create a peer review discussion?
• How do I use peer review discussions in a course?
• How do I view student peer review comments as an instructor?
• Student Guide: How do I submit a peer review to a discussion?
• Student Guide: Where can I find my peers' feedback for peer reviewed assignments?
• Email the LX Design team
• Video Suggestions

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