I have experimented with the checklist this semester in HFCOnline. With the checklist you can make a list of assignments, link to the assignments or ancillary material, and add recommended due dates. As students complete them they can manually check them off. Some things can be automatically checked off. Checklists create a graded item, but I did not want to award points for them so I just do not have them in a credit category. I also could go hide them in the student gradebook. You can add the due dates you assign to the course calendar if your students are trained to look there. (See the setting below.)
Checklists appear at the end of a section with other “Add an activity or resource material.” I always drag them to the top of that list to make them easy to find. I also try to keep the section description brief when using checklists to students can
I recorded a brief video showing what one of my checklists looks like and my reflections on using them at the quarter point of the semester.
Here are the directions D. Smith uses. These directions automate part of the creation process.
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