Orientation is important for new college students to help them quickly adapt to college life. Generally speaking, new students will receive a handbook on “Campus Safety and Behavioral Guidelines”, “Campus Distribution”, “Course Planning”, etc. prepared by the university at the time of admission. However, such a cumbersome and complicated learning process does not allow students to familiarize themselves with university life in the shortest possible time. For this reason, educators may want to change their thinking and change this way of studying safety manuals to online learning. The benefits of organizing online are saving time and effort, students can choose to participate flexibly, and online learning will also make the learning cycle shorter. This article discusses some of the issues that should be addressed when a school conducts its online orientation program for new students.

How to create a learning account for each student in a short period of time?

Generally speaking, the number of new students in each year is quite large. Facing a large group of new students, it is inconvenient to open a study account manually. You may need an “Enrollment” function like the one in Online Exam Maker. Simply put, the administrator of the system just needs to create an enrollment form and share it with the new students. After the new students submit their completed information, the system will automatically collect the students’ information and assign them to the preset groups.

How to create different sections of learning content?

The first lesson for new students is usually about school introduction, campus resources, campus safety, code of conduct and so on. What schools need is a learning platform that can differentiate between different categories of learning content. This way, when students log in to their back office, they can find what they need to learn from a wide range of courses that are categorized according to the courses they want to learn.

How to make learning content engaging?

Boring content does not have a significant impact on learning, and it is difficult for new students to grasp the content in a short period of time. There are a number of ways to make the learning process relatively interesting, the simplest of which is to present the content in a variety of different formats such as video, audio, graphics, etc.

How to retain the learning content?

Saving learning content in an online learning platform is one of the best ways to retain learning content. Take Online Exam Maker as an example, it provides users with a courseware library for storing a large number of courseware, and provides course categorization etc. for users to manage courses. The administrator only needs to set the opening time of the course, and students can study repeatedly during the opening time. And the content stored in the system can be used by future students.

How to judge the learning effect of new students?

The learning records on the learning platform mainly present the students’ learning hours, last learning time, learning progress and so on, so as to infer the learning effect of the students. In addition, creating online exams is a more direct testing method. Like Online Exam Maker, it provides users with a one-stop platform for creating online exams and online courses, and students can participate in the test immediately after completing the course. Moreover, the test system will also provide administrators with a map of students’ abilities, so that administrators can clearly determine the learning effect of students.