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Response 3	I would take another DE course just because of convenience not quality. Most DE courses have the same formula for teaching and gets redundant. LCCs DE courses does not offer differentiated learning experiences for students.
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Response 14	Love the time to do assignments at home.
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Response 17	I really liked the class and it was my first time taking a DE class, but i found out that it's just not right for me and i like learning in an actual class better. so, that is why i wouldn't take one again.
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Response 29	Dr. Kae's online class is the best online class I've ever taken. Other professor who look into teaching online should have the same structure like Dr. Kae. Mahalo.
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Response 40	I did not enjoy my experience with Professor Hirata.
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Response 43	Distance Education provides me a student and a full-time employee with the DOE the opportunity to complete my college coursework. However, there are still a lot of work to be done to improve the program. For example, instructors are oblivious to the processing time of home computers/the internet. In my HWST class, my instructor gave us 10 minutes to complete a map test. In theory, each question would take less than a minute. However, the processing time of computers, the snail pace of the internet and the action required by the student to scroll, check the honor and answer the question takes a minute and 10 seconds. Thus, the student is unable to complete the map test in the allocated time. In addition, IF students are required to meet all deadlines on the submission of coursework. The instructor needs to be held to the same requirement. This past semester was the worst with regards to getting coursework returned. For example, I submitted my assignment for ED 294 6 weeks ago. My instructor just returned it to me for revisions. #areyouserious
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Response 45	Many of the online classes are well done. I definitely encourage all teachers to use grade book, so that it is easier to keep track of individual grading, and it can push all responsibility on the student to keep track of their grade. Also, one improvement i've noticed from previous classes is the use of the announcements. One teacher used the announcement tool to give students their assignments and due dates for the week. I thought this was terrific. When taking online courses, it is easy for a student to loose track of time and due dates. Announcing all the assignments that will be due at the end of the week or during the week is a great way to overcome the problem of late assignments.
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Response 47	Laulima had issues with one of my assignments where it posted my assignment and emailed me it was posted but she claimed she never got it. Not sure what is up with that.
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Response 55	DE courses were a big part of my experience here at Leeward CC. I greatly benefitted from being able to work on my own time and even work well ahead of time so projects and deadlines would not pile up with my other courses.
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Response 57	I have two children that are very young and I am unable to get out due to not having a sitter, online classes are a very helpful tool for people like me and I appreciate it.
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Response 80	Professoe Monahan should not be a professor especially for online courses. Extremely unorganized. Late. Full of excuses. No help as a teacher what so ever. Extremely disappointed and surprised in UH and LCC for letting this happen.
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Response 91	Online classes are great ! The process and teachers are amazing.
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Response 93	More DE classes should be made available for all subjects. The instructors have been great, and I enjoy taking DE classes rather than physical classes. Plus, I don't have to deal with the rail traffic and lane closures.
Response 94	Convenient especially when you need to work and fit school in your schedule.
Response 95	The Distance Education Courses are always helpful in fulfilling my academic goals.
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Response 99	I'm already waitlisted for two in the fall
Response 100	I recently enrolled in a Business Law class for Fall Semester 2016.
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Response 106	Laulima is very easy to navigate, although it would be nice if the only accessible courses displayed at the top were the current semesters course i.e. not having to see classes from fall 2015 during the summer 2016 semester.
Response 107	It is convenient to take an online class, but I prefer the interaction with the professor and students. I met with instructor during office hours, which was helpful. Since instructor was very slow to return online work, however, I felt anxious not knowing how I was doing. I think the list of assignments and due dates should be more detailed in the syllabus, and not just in assignments as you do them, so you can better organize work and manage time, especially for the group project. I would also have liked to know more about the other students before selecting our group for the project. It turned out quite good, but since we didn't know each other at all, we didn't know whether we could count on other group members to do their share and do a good job. Maybe it would help if we had done our first assignment, introducing ourselves to the instructor, to include introductions to the other students. But I did meet my goal of learning how to more effectively use Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, with the unexpected bonus of being introduced to Google Sites.
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Response 109	Mr Kamida courses are easy to follow and very clear. He provided guidance through out the course and he is very easy to reach in case of questions
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Response 111	I am already enrolled in 2 classes for fall semester.
Response 112	More DE teachers are needed to cover other subjects that are not available at the LCC Waianae campus as I believe that people take them so they don't need to make the far trip to the Pearl City campus.
Response 113	I took an on-line business law class at KCC that had weekly video classes that were amazing and helped me to learn things well. I would like to leave this suggestion for other on-line classes as well, especially for classes like economics. Thank you.
Response 114	It is a very good course and it helps students who are far away to take the course in their home without coming to collage.
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Response 120	An additional tool, NetLabs, was utilized as part of the Operating Systems course I recently took. I'm not clear if this is normally a part of Laulima, but I found this tool to be very helpful in at least ensuring that I was exposed to the commands and "normal" behavior of the targeting operating systems when my own version of that OS was not properly functioning.
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Response 131	Taking online class it is easier to manage my college schedule. I really enjoyed taking online class this semester..
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Response 149	Stop sending these annoying emails.
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Response 155	Hopefully next time the Instructor will be better.
Response 156	The course content varies from course to course but in some instances, the course and content are absolute garbage where other classes will be very neat and organized with their content
Response 157	Most of my grievances with the program had to do with the instructor specifically and the Pearson tool MyMathLab. The actual organization and administration of the class and resources was fine, it was the content I took exception with.
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Response 177	I like these online courses but I shouldn't take anymore courses from LCC since I should be finishing up my degree within the next year from UHWO. If I had more lower level classes to take I would like to take them from LCC though!
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Response 184	I failed the class because I missed the last few tests... Y_Y I had wished that the instructor was a bit more "concern." Part of it was hugely my fault, but a little "push" from the instructor would not hurt.
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Response 186	absolutely. It's my favorite way to take classes.
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Response 195	I love how many courses are offered online from LCC and the rest of the community colleges in the UH system. I would love it if UH MÄnoa would follow suit.
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Response 202	Yes, I would take another distance education course, but I would recommend for other students to take ASTR-110 at this moment. The course structure was extremely unorganized, and communication with the professor was late at best. Although I did somewhat well in this particular course only because I went out of the way to fully understand the content, but many of the other students in the class struggled.
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Response 204	anthropology online was tougher than a writing intensive online class.
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Response 206	Not bad, just needed to be more reasonable on how the professor should allow the students tackle exams. It was a bit unforgiving but it did push students to do better. Although there was never any interaction with the distanced professor. Besides that, its a very independ type of learning and students are able to pace themselves. Thank you professors and faculty members, I have graduated. -Roldan Galvadores
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Response 223	Kakkala mohanan was the worst professor to host an DE class very unorganized and didn't respond to most of my e-mails. He didn't explain homework assignments and gsavr quizzes without announcing it the the class. Very horrible class.
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Response 228	I will take another distance education course at Leeward CC if its necessary.
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Response 232	I wouldn't have minded the online class had I known it was going to be an online class. When I registered, it simply said "TBD" for room number, so I assumed it just meant they didn't have a room ready for the class at that time, whereas most online courses have "WWW" to indicate that it would be online.
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Response 251	Yes, only if they offerred more only courses
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Response 262	Professor Petersen Gross put together and conducted a very good course. It was one of the best distance learning classes I have taken based on materials, lesson plans, instructor accessibility and feed back and content.
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Response 268	Lectures were only available on cable, why not online as well?
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Response 294	Laulima is generally a good website, all the basic tabs and headers don't change. What I don't care for are the variations that the individual instructors have on the order of which the course tabs are placed on the left-hand side. If they have specific one's like DropBox, all those should put grouped and placed below the general one's like the syllabus and gradebook and such.
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Response 297	DE classes are perfect if you've a busy schedule and need to work at your own pace, at your own time.
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Response 301	Sometimes you have no choice.
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Response 308	I only took an online course because I had to. There was no other timing option since I was also taking math 100C and it was offered at same time. I don't like online courses. But I got through it.
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Response 323	BLAW200 was a challenging course to learn. More student media resources such as instructor chapter lecture videos to reinforce chapter topics would've been helpful.
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Response 328	Some instructors are great at utilizing the tools in Laulima, but the majority opt to use all kinds of different programs and resources that it's just a whole jumble of things we have to spend and enormous amount of time deciphering. This is extremely discouraging and detracts from focus on the material we need to learn. If there was some kind of standardization and clear organization across classes, the graduation success rate would definitely rise and there would be smarter people out there that excel at the topics they are taught rather than only becoming masters of organization and just "getting by" with the actual material.
Response 329	I have taken online courses from 2 other colleges & Leeward's system is by far, the best! Laulima is easy to navigate and I can tell that professors put a lot of time in planning the semester out.
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Response 332	My online experience was good because all the material was organized on laulima and on the syllabus. The reading and worksheets given by the instructor were not at all helpful for the upcoming exams.
Response 333	I thanked my instructors Christina Keaulana for ED 283 and Bobbie Martel for ED 284.
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Response 355	Because it is convenient and works with my job schedule.
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Response 364	I am older and have a child that many medical challenges so online classes are the only way I can further my class. I wish everything 100% of online classes could be done at home. It's ruff making time to come into the campus for a test. Some classes allow it and it makes life easier on me because its one less thing I have to worry about.
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Response 371	I would if I need another credit, but I do not.
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Response 379	It started a little confusing for me as I had been out of school since 2009, but when I finally got it together, it was pretty interesting and fun.
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Response 387	Really enjoyed doing things at my own pace, it was really easy to figure out because I though it would be hard due do the fact I'm a stay at home mom.
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Response 395	instructor was detaild and upfront of studies. too bad did not get to meet her.
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Response 402	Love online learning
Response 403	I am really not one to complain, but there have been some issues... 3 hour english final essay was required to be taken on Laulima,my work was completely lost 2.5 hours into the session due to the website resetting. I manually backed up my work every 20 min or so. If it werent for that, i would have either recieved a B in the course our would have had to make up the entire essay. I submitted an incomplete essay and thankfully scored enough points to still get an A in the class. I am still angry about that despite the A. I was devastated that my work, especially a final exam, was completely lost due to the stupid website resetting itself. Professor Turner was great. It wasn't his fault, but I wouldn't recommend anyone relying on a website to keep their final exam safe as they are working on it. Coincidentally, that was the only occurence of it happening during the entire course, but that was the only time we were required to be on Laulima for such a long time on a single piece of coursework. Next time, I'll start the exam then do my work in a word processor as the clock is winding down, copy and paste to laulima and submit work. I dont recall doing any orientation for laulima. When i started, it was very confusing cause i had no idea what to do or what was going on. The physical campus orientation was horrible as well. It wasnt fun, as much as they tried to make it such. I left campus with a bad impression after orientation. It was nearly pointless cause i ended up learning everything on my own anyway. Financial Aid for 2016-2017 was a very smooth process, however, when i applied in December for the spring16 semester, it was an absolute mess!!! My spouse and i aren't married, we live together with two children. I must have been back and forth with the financial aid office about 15 times. my personal situation really doesnt seem that extraordinary, but no one knew what the hell was going on. one person would tell me to fill out the verification in a particular way, then i would get a call or email saying that there was a discrepancy. I must have spoken to everyone in that office, and every single time i had to explain my situation from the very beginnning. It was a miserable process. Professors should be more proactive with posting and updating grades, or at least accumulated points. It makes a huge difference for students striving for high grades, and in general its just good to know where you stand at all times. Some classes were great regarding this, others were terrible. Overall, the Laulima site and the online program was ok. No issues other than the single significant one that I described above. Leeward admissions staff seems to make an effort to get the student to come to campus for every little thing. the process was so miserably inefficient. I work full time, and i was under the assumption that some of the meetings were mandatory, when in fact they werent. I can recall three separate appointments, of which only 1 was mandatory(orientation). The worst part about it was the fact that there seemed to be no effort to have the student come in for only 1 day and knock out everything. very stressful and inefficient. My first semester at Leeward was great overall, with the exception of enrollment/admissions in general. December '15, the month I enrolled, was the month from hell.
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Response 440	Instructor communication was nothing compared to previous course last semester. However the guidelines for asking for help and the various resources were always available.
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Response 449	I wish there were different ways of teaching a lesson instead of the same thing every week.
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Response 495	I am worried about it transferring and I prefer learning in a classroom setting. It is more conducive to learning and retaining information. Online classes are not bad, just not my first choice. Thanks ðŸ˜Ž
Response 496	I enjoyed my DE course. I look forward to the next one this Fall.
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Response 513	Teachers with online courses have too much variation on how the course is set up. Some teachers use the gradebook, some don't. Some focus on using the forums, others never have forum requirements. It makes the courses harder to take when all the teachers use Laulima so differently.
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Response 529	I enjoyed taking DE courses. The only issue I had was with Laulima. Too many times my work was erased and not automatically saved or stored when computer glitches occurred. This problem occurred when I was in the mail to site.
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Response 540	I like the online instruction at Leeward Community College. It makes the student's like me a lot easier. Although online classes are not for everyone, I would still highly recommend taking online classes.
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Response 545	Thankful for online courses. It allows me to be in school, take care of my kids, and work. It's tough but it is very convenient for my busy schedule.
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Response 554	The assessment section shouldn't be answered for all DE courses taken by a student for the semester. Each course taken is different and each instructor is different. For example questions 13 & 14
Response 555	I'm sure the online classes at LCC are great but I did not take any. I'd appreciate if you would check your facts before spamming with emails. All of my classes were on campus, NOT online. Thank You
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Response 569	I hope that the next online class will have at least a few times to meet up with the other students - just to see the faces of the names we are taking the class with.
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