(Essential Standard -- 3 points)
Students learn more effectively if they receive frequent, meaningful, and rapid feedback. This feedback can come back directly from you or by feedback built into your assessments.
It is important that the students understand how feedback to all types of assessment will be returned to them in what time frame. Doing this up front will save lots of questions and email to deal with during the course.
Specific turn around times should be stated (see examples one and two below)
An instructor's involvement in the course should be documented (see examples three and four below).
"I will return your research papers two weeks after the submission deadline, or perhaps earlier if I have completed grading them before that time."
"If you have a question, please send me an email using the address above. I will respond within 24 hours in most cases, unless I state otherwise in the course."
"I will moderate all discussions but will not participate, per se. I will step in to guide the direction if I feel it is getting off on a tangent."
"I will participate in discussions by first posting a discussion question. You are then to discuss the question amongst yourselves. I may interject with follow-up questions at my discretion. At the end of the discussion, I will send a summary response to the group within one week."