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Adding Answer Comments in Canvas Quizzes

Posted: March 2, 2021 | Last Modified: March 23, 2021 4 Comments

Adding Comments in Canvas Quizzes As you create questions in a Canvas quiz, you’ll notice three colored boxes at the very bottom of each question. The box on the left is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Online Teaching, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Academic Integrity, Assessment, Canvas, Feedback, Grades, Instructor, Quick Tips, Quizzes

Providing Flexibility for Students, Especially During Disruptive Times

Posted: November 25, 2020 | Last Modified: November 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

Many students take online courses because they have obligations — work, family, health, military service — that impact their ability to attend courses on-campus. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design, Online Teaching, Tools & Technology Tagged With: Accessibility, Assessment, Canvas, EDI, Extra Credit, Instructor

Instructors: Assignments Using Turnitin

Posted: December 18, 2019 | Last Modified: October 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

Turnitin (Tii) is a “similarity check” tool that you can enable in Canvas assignments. Tii identifies text in student papers that matches against the text in websites, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tools & Technology Tagged With: Academic Integrity, Assessment, Canvas, Grades, Instructor, Turnitin, Written Assignments

Students: Assignments Using TurnItIn

Posted: December 2, 2019 | Last Modified: December 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Your instructor may have enabled TurnItIn (Tii) on one or more of your assignments for a course. This application is used to help you understand more about your writing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tools & Technology Tagged With: Academic Integrity, Assessment, Canvas, Copyright, Student, Turnitin, Written Assignments

Quick Tip: Where’s My Feedback?

Posted: November 20, 2019 | Last Modified: October 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

As a student, you can see all your feedback from the Grades tab when viewing on a browser. The score will display automatically, but you will  need to click on the icons … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tools & Technology Tagged With: Assessment, Canvas, Discussion, Feedback, Grades, Quick Tips, Student, Written Assignments

Give Students Some Choice

Posted: July 11, 2018 | Last Modified: November 8, 2018 Leave a Comment

Allowing students a choice in the topic they want to discuss grants them autonomy in their learning, which can be motivating, improve performance, and provide a more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design, Online Teaching Tagged With: Assessment, Discussion, Instructor

Academic Integrity by Design

Posted: May 10, 2017 | Last Modified: August 30, 2022 Leave a Comment

The article “The New Cheating Economy,” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education (2016), tells the story of two Western Carolina University professors who set up a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design Tagged With: Academic Integrity, Announcements, Assessment, Grades, Instructor, Social Presence, Turnitin

How to Improve Performance

Posted: April 3, 2017 | Last Modified: October 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

In this TED Talk, Eduardo Briceño talks about how people improve their performance of a task--and the answer is not to perform that task more often. The answer lies in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Course Design Tagged With: Assessment, Feedback, Grades, Instructor

Turnitin: Enforcement or Learning Tool?

Posted: August 10, 2016 | Last Modified: July 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

You’ve assigned a final project and told your students they must submit original work and cite their outside sources. When its enabled, Turnitin will analyze those 30 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tools & Technology Tagged With: Academic Integrity, Assessment, Instructor, Turnitin

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Through the partnerships we form with our instructors, we develop engaging and interactive online courses. Here you’ll find ideas on course design informed by the latest research and teaching strategies that build community and instructor presence. We’ll also we share our experiences with technology, with Canvas, and with administering our online educational programs.

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