April 12, 2024 Submit and Adjust Final Grades Reading Time: 3 minutes Review steps for submitting final grades Categories Assessment/Teaching/Tech For Teaching
April 3, 2024 Pre-Assessments in Lesson Planning Reading Time: 2 minutes Wondering what students already know about a topic and how this informs our lesson planning? This post will provide a short explanation as to why... Categories Concept Mapping/Lesson and Course Planning/Teaching
March 20, 2024 Engage ALL Students with the Questions You Ask Reading Time: 6 minutes As teachers, we all have one thing in common: we like to ask our students questions. The questions might ask to recall some important information... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Collaboration/Communicating With Students
March 6, 2024 Rethinking Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Reading Time: 4 minutes As professors, our responsibility to uphold academic integrity becomes increasingly complex with the integration of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in the learning environment, prompting a... Categories Academic Integrity/AI and Assessment/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching
February 23, 2024 The Evolving Field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots Reading Time: 13 minutes In this post, we’ll explore what generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are and try to understand how we’ve gotten to this point in AI technology... Categories AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Getting Started with AI/Teaching
February 12, 2024 Mentimeter Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Mentimeter? An interactive presentation, polling and quizzing tool, with Mentimeter you can build engaging presentations right in your browser. Add questions, polls, quizzes,... Categories Classroom Tech/Gamification/Licensed Apps and Pilots/Teaching Materials/Tech For Teaching
February 6, 2024 Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Collaboration/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment
January 31, 2024 Effective Whiteboard Use Reading Time: < 1 minute When teaching in-person, the whiteboard can be an effective teaching tool in the classroom. It helps students visualize content and recall important terms, concepts, and... Categories Accessible Learning/Collaboration/In-person
December 13, 2023 Using Exemplars to Support Student Success with Assessments Reading Time: 3 minutes Exemplars are “carefully chosen samples of student work which are used to illustrate dimensions of quality and to clarify assessment expectations” (Carless & Chan, 2017,... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Communicating With Students/Creating Assessments/Giving Feedback/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching
October 26, 2023 Proctoring Technologies for Test & Exams Reading Time: 3 minutes Effective test and exam proctoring is an important part of the work that we do as faculty to ensure integrity and create supportive spaces for... Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching/Tech For Teaching