You may find that some of your students need additional time or attempts to take a Canvas quiz. Fortunately, you can use the built-in quiz moderation tools to handle these accommodations. On the Moderate Quiz page, you can manually unlock (and re-lock) a quiz for a specific student, allow more time to complete a timed… Read more »
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What Will You Keep This Fall? Susan Siena on More Frequent Tests
In my last video in this series, Dr. Susan Siena from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs talks with me about moving from a few higher-stakes exams to more frequent, lower-stakes ones. Susan has evidence that students see better connections between exams and the course content, due to the more immediate assessments, and… 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 »
Assessing Student Learning in the Online, Synchronous Classroom
If you’re accustomed to teaching in-person, I’m sure hybrid or online teaching has required some changes to your lessons. At first glance, the modalities of synchronous online classrooms and in-person classrooms may seem at odds. However, many types of assessments (e.g., exams, essays, quizzes, discussions) can be used for both synchronous online and face-to-face (f2f)… Read more »
Handling Exams When Your Course Unexpectedly Moves Online
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. For many faculty, quickly transitioning to online teaching is most challenging when considering how they will assess students’ learning. That’s especially true with… Read more »
Assessing Service-Learning Outcomes and Student Service
Now that we’ve shared fundamental resources for creating a partnership and revising your syllabus to detail service-learning, let’s turn an eye to assessment. Assessment of community-engaged teaching and learning follows the same practices of assessing student learning, with some specialized tools particular to the method. While targeted at service-learning, the support offered below works for… Read more »