Instructor: Fumio Shimpo, Professor
How many students took the course?
125 students
What was the class format?
Full semester, live
Student Feedback
"It's ideal to conduct quizzes using the polling feature while also answering questions."
It seems you used the polling feature to conduct quizzes to gauge understanding, and then provided supplementary explanations and answered questions. Did you plan the class with this approach in mind from the beginning?
To check the level of understanding of the lecture content, I prepared about 250 questions of 50 types for small quizzes using the polling feature. Depending on the progress of the lecture, I used the polling feature to ask questions that confirmed important points in each topic, setting a response time of three to five minutes. The polling results allowed me to instantly grasp the ratio of correct and incorrect answers, and based on these results, I provided supplementary explanations and answered questions. Previously, in large lecture halls, I could gauge students' interest from their demeanor, but I couldn't check their level of understanding in real time. By being able to proceed with the lecture while confirming comprehension of difficult constitutional issues, it seems the students found the class easier to understand.
In conducting your first online class, were there any other creative measures you took? Please tell us about them.
Believing that the ability to comfortably attend lectures is a prerequisite for online classes, I set up my environment for online lectures by referencing the setups of video streaming service providers to ensure stable audio, video, and network conditions. I encouraged students to use the chat and Q&A features to post comments and ask questions whenever they thought of them. I also made it possible for family members of students interested in constitutional issues to observe the online classes.