Short text messages sent via Remind. Eye-catching graphics using Canva. Classroom polls and games with Kahoot! As Jenny Lane L鈥15, Mindy Cyr, and Haley Mendola L鈥18 detailed at a January 28 conference, teaching bar exam prep online courses can require new ways to keep students engaged.
The move to online learning two years ago at the start of the pandemic required academic and bar support instructors across the country to rethink the way they teach 鈥 and for 黑料不打烊 Law鈥檚 Office of Academic Success, the results of their pivots have been impressive.
They鈥檙e also worth sharing.
Jenny Lane L鈥15, Mindy Cyr, and Haley Mendola L’18 detailed some of their best practices for encouraging students and emphasizing important information relevant to passing the bar exam during the second annual South Florida Regional ASP Conference hosted January 28, 2022, by Nova Southeastern University.
鈥淭echnology Tools to Support Bar Exam Preparation鈥 focused on the pros and cons of utilizing for text messaging, for creating visual study skill graphics, and to gamify information for students enrolled in bar prep courses prior to graduation.
For Lane, the value of texts and graphics to communicate and the gamification of lessons is evident in the way her classes respond to the information they receive. Students aren鈥檛 as attentive to emails, she said, with a preference toward messages shared in digestible bites.
鈥淪ome of our students have been holding phones in their hands almost since birth,鈥 Lane said. 鈥淵ou want to integrate these concepts and programs to get them interacting with you, and that鈥檚 what鈥檚 key 鈥 engagement.鈥
Lane said the visual study skill graphics created by the Office of Academic Success have played a role in keeping graduates focused on their studies during law school and when preparing for the bar exam.
黑料不打烊 Law鈥檚 first-time bar pass rates have soared over the past five years and the law school鈥檚 two-year ultimate bar passage rate hovers around 90 percent.
About the Office of Academic Success
The Office of Academic Success provides resources needed to succeed in law school, pass the bar examination, and develop habits that will carry over into a professional setting. The five-member team embrace the principles of engaged learning, self-regulated learning and leadership, and instructors partner with the doctrinal faculty, the senior administration and outside experts to achieve their mission.