haiku LMS

Originally posted by Ann

My haiku LMS learning systems course sites are great tools for organizing resources for a class and making them available to all students. When I or one of my students loses a document, there’s an easy way to find it: on the haiku LMS course site. When we move from one unit to another in a theme-based course, the students visiting the site are reminded of how the various units connect to one another.

I love the ways in which one can easily add a YouTube link, create a slide show, post documents–all on the same page. I require my students to do weekly discussion postings and responses to each others’ posts on the side. The posts are easy to rate and grade, and I love the way you can open the post a student is responding to by simply clicking on the top of the window. This is just one of many thoughtful touches added by the designers of this site.

haiku LMS’s many easy to use features truly facilitate a learning community. I even lecture from the haiku LMS site, pulling it up on the screen in my multi-media classroom. I can also post a PowerPoint lecture and open it right from the haiku LMS site. Then it’s there for students to refer to later if they want to follow up on a point. Visiting the site is a convenient way for students who have missed to class to make up some of the work.

While haiku LMS was developed largely with K-12 in mind, it has been a fantastic tool for me in college teaching, especially as students readily respond to media-enhanced teaching–more so every year.

Ann Hostetler is Professor of English at Goshen College (Indiana) and a HAIKU higher ed Advisor. Click here to see a list o classes Ann is currently teaching with haiku LMS.