Aplia - Online Working Papers

I was on a Webinar today to review the use of Aplia online working papers for Accounting.  I would say that I love using the online working papers vs the printed workbook.  The use of online papers has made the teaching and assessment much nicer for students and me.  When I give an assignment it automatically grades the assignment the moment the due date.  This immediate feedback is great because students don't have to wait for me to grade their assignments to find out how they did.

One part that I constantly am concerned about is if students go back and look over their work.  As a teacher I always felt better when I passed back papers to students because they then had an opportunity to look at what they did.  I know student can do that online but they often just look at the grade and not necessarily what they did incorrectly.  I think I need to just get over it, but one why I give power back to students is if they disagree with how Aplia graded their homework, they can print their work and write out using accounting terms of why they should get points back for their work.  Often students will do this so I know they do look at some of their work.

This webinar was a review for me of the basic setup and use of Aplia, but it is good to go over the basics that you might forget.  I am also giving a workshop at Wisconsin Business Education Association (WBEA) fall conference on using Aplia in high school accounting class in conjunction with Cengage representative.  So I now know I will have more information for this presentation.

This webinar lasted over 1 hour.