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Example #3, continued:

c. Implementation
Sometimes the instructor will have a role to play while
the module is being attempted by a student. It may be
that the course manager will be expected to review a
practice exercise or perhaps to demonstrate a procedure.
If so, the course manager should be prepared for these
activities; instruction on how to handle these activities
should be made available.
Are there typical questions that students will ask, com-
mon problems to watch out for? Are there typical errors
during practice? If so, draft some comments designed to
help the course manager implement the module the way
you would like to have it implemented.

d. Evaluation
When a skill check involves responding to a number of
questions for which there are right or wrong answers,
students are encouraged to compare their responses with
those that are contained in the self-evaluation materials.
But what about all those instances in which a skill check
asks for original or creative responses or asks students to
write something, draft something, make something, say
something? The course manager will be expected to
review the work and to determine whether the perfor-
mance is OK or not yet OK and provide diagnostic, and
perhaps corrective, feedback.
The skill check for this module, for example, asks you
to prepare the directions and instructions that may
be needed to implement your module and to take that
material along with your module to a course manager for
review. Two things have been done to prepare the course
manager to handle this review: (1) A Module Note in