Category: CATL Blog Posts
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Transparency and Student Success: Time-Saving Small Changes
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At the recent Instructional Development Institute (IDI) 2023 Conference, our community came together to discuss the topic of student success. One common theme discussed was how instructors and staff can help students succeed in college. An answer that came up repeatedly within various sessions was to adjust our course design methods. In this blog post,…
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Making Impactful Use of Canvas Analytics in Your Course
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Like many websites, Canvas collects data from users as they navigate their courses. Thankfully, unlike many websites, Canvas collects this data not for the purpose of selling it to advertisers but for the purpose of presenting it to instructors. Canvas presents collected student activity data in a course page titled “Course Analytics,” which contains charts and…
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Evidence-Based Frameworks and Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged
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Engaging students is a common concern among instructors. While some approaches for engaging students are contingent on modality and content area, there are also methods that can apply to courses of all types. CATL has compiled some of these key research-backed frameworks and strategies in this blog post on student engagement.
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Evidence-Based Approaches to Promoting Academic Honesty
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Academic honesty has always been a concern in higher education, but the proliferation of technology has changed the scope and nature of the problem. It should come as no surprise that there are ethical concerns about both academic dishonesty itself and the privacy and intellectual property issues raised by technologies intended to detect or prevent…
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Resources for Incorporating Student Feedback
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Collecting and using student feedback is a great way to inform your instruction and teaching methods. Gathering this feedback can occur more than once in your course and can range from informal mid-semester course surveys to official end-of-semester course evaluations. To view a selection of past resources on collecting and incorporating student feedback, check out…