First Day of Class follow up

I decided to create an announcement after my first day of class to reiterate important information pertaining to class. My experience in previous instructor lead training that even though you are covering the material verbatim, you will have redundant questions, so one rule of thumb I follow...tell them, tell what you told them, and tell them again. With that said, I felt that since I can set the announcement box to pop-up when they log in, then that would be a great opportunity to refresh their memory. However, so will still chose to overlook the information, but at least this will be a leveraging tool if you have students that try to butter you up for extensions on due dates.

Here is draft example of the sort of information I will be adding in the announcement post:
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It was a pleasure getting to meet you all this afternoon for our first class! I really think you all will enjoy this course and benefit the rewords at the end of the semester.

A few reminders that I want to mention:

1. The scheduled class meetings that are listed on the course homepage are mandatory. Therefore, I will be giving grades for those that attend the whole class and complete the surprise portion of the class. This week, the surprise was that I took attendance at the end of my lecture and all of you that were still there will receive 25/25. So be on the look out for the next surprise on September 23rd.
2. The modules contain all of the information you need to complete your assignments. Please make sure to watch the tutorial videos for each module. If you are having issues, relax first and then review the lectures again because the answers are there.
3. We covered Modules 1 and 2 today, so you are well prepared to complete those assignments. Be sure to complete the Netiquette discussion by Aug. 26th if you did not complete it during the class session and remember to respond to at least 2 of your classmates.
4. Review the Introduction discussion board to make sure you have completed the assignment and if you have not already send the “Email Assignment”, please do so by Aug. 26th.
5. Do not click the submit button in the Assignment box until you are positive that you have completed the assignment based on the assignment rubric. I will not release submitted items once you have submitted them.

Happy Learning!