Humanizing Online Assignments and Grading: Just a Few Words Will Do

Abstract

There are ways to ensure that professors, as teachers, can appear more human and ultimately play a significant pedagogical role in a student’s engagement (and having more faith) in the online teaching-learning dynamic. This can be done through specific instructions for students to integrate part of who they are and what they have experienced, and the feedback provided to them in a manner that concretely recognizes what the student has done.