If you have created a few Canvas assignments, discussion, or quizzes with due dates, you may have noticed that the time associated with the due date – the “due time” – is set to 11:59 pm by default. The due time can always be changed on an assignment-by-assignment basis, but now there is an easier… Read more »
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What Will You Keep for Fall? Sapna Mehta on Alternative Assessments
In this episode of WWYK, I talk with Dr. Sapna Mehta from the Department of Biology, and she shares how she has transformed an upper-level class in two ways—by taking a hybrid approach and by replacing all her exams with weekly scaffolded exercises that lead to a final project. That final project is also one… Read more »
What Will You Keep This Fall? Laura Brown on Low-Stakes Assessments
In this week’s “What Will You Keep this Fall?” video, we are talking with Dr. Laura Brown from the Chemistry Department about a few lessons she’s learned from this past year, and specifically about her use of low-stakes assessments. She has incorporated Quick Checks in each module, allows students to re-do parts of exams, and… Read more »
Getting Started with AI in the Classroom
As generative AI (GenAI) continues to reshape higher education, you—as an IU instructor—are uniquely positioned to lead your students through a transformative experience. While we can all agree having generative AI thrust unknowingly upon us is a less than ideal situation, whether you’re now exploring AI’s potential to improve student learning outcomes, designing new assessments,… Read more »
Is over-reliance on GenAI undermining your course goals? Consider a scaffolded in-class writing assignment with Canvas and LockDown Browser
This post was written by John Robison, Lecturer in Philosophy. A longer version of this post first appeared in the philosophy blog, the Daily Nous. A successful humanities course helps students cultivate critical, personally enriching, and widely applicable skills, and it immerses them in the exploration of perspectives, ideas, and modes of thought that can illuminate, challenge,… Read more »
Creating an OCQ Game Plan
If you were wowed during IU’s latest football season, you probably know the power of creating a game plan. Game plans help us focus our energies on improvement, and they’re as helpful in the classroom as on the field. Creating a game plan for crafting and analyzing your end-of-semester online course questionnaires (OCQs) can help… Read more »