Category: CATL Blog Posts
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10 Tips for Reworking Online Discussions
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Tips collected by Luke Konkol We often hear that asynchronous online discussions “just don’t seem to work.” The reasons why run the gambit from feeling like busy-work for students to simply being too much to read. This post shares ten quick ideas (in no particular order) instructors might consider to tweak their online discussions and…
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Organizing Canvas to Improve the Student Experience
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We’ve all been there: someone told you to finish that thing, and you remember seeing the file somewhere a few weeks ago, but you just can’t remember where you saved it. Or when it’s due. Or maybe even what it was called. Maybe it was this file titled “download_040521”? No wait… maybe download_064053? Now imagine…
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Steps Towards Assuring Academic Integrity
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Although there is not a 100% successful strategy that one can adopt to eliminate cheating for both online and in-person learning environments, we still strive to limit academic dishonesty to the best of our abilities. In this blog post, instructional designer Nathan Kraftcheck provides some practices that you may find useful in both reducing the…
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So You Want to Be Flexible: Canvas Can Help
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Article by Luke Konkol In a time when students might require extra flexibility, it’s important to remember that it should not come at the expense of instructor bandwidth. Providing extensions on student work, alternative assignments, or dropping work can have a positive impact on students, but how can we best find the sweet spot between…
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Connecting Online
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By the time this post is published, we’ll be past the halfway mark of the fall semester. Adding the spring semester to this fall, that’s around a full semester of mostly online, virtual synchronous, and blended/hybrid instruction. These are instructional modalities that some instructors and students are disinclined to use. But here we are, nonetheless,…