Are you struggling to learn student names? Here are ways that our IUB instructors learn and use student names. Use name tents. Ask students to create tents using card stock, index cards, or erasable table tents. When using erasable tents, students write their names on one side and use the other side to respond to… Read more »
This summer, IU moved to a new version of Top Hat, which offers new functionality such as automatic syncing and deep links. One of the changes required by this new version, however, is how you add students. Where formerly you might have just provided students with a join code, this version requires students to log… Read more »
As you are preparing your Canvas sites for the fall, you are probably creating Modules to organize your weekly or unit content. Now you can publish or unpublish all your Modules and the items in those Modules at once. When you go to Modules in your Canvas site, you’ll see a Publish All button with… Read more »
If you are concerned about your students’ reading habits, why they complete or don’t complete readings, and whether they comprehend the readings, ask them. Here are a few survey questions you can use. In the CITL’s current Faculty Learning Community, “Designing and Building Equitable Large Classes,” participants are surveying their students about their reading practices…. Read more »
Recent news headlines have been traumatic for many minoritized communities, particularly Asian populations. The racially-motivated stabbing of the Indiana University student on public transportation and the tragic shooting in California regarding Lunar New Year can be too much to bear. Students may be having a difficult time dealing with these tragedies and it is important… Read more »
It is almost time to submit your final grades. Here are a few steps you can take to get ready and to make sure your students are seeing accurate grades. Options for handling missing grades Excuse an assignment by typing EX in the gradebook cell. Enter a zero for a missing grade. Apart from manually… Read more »