Category: Planning A Course
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Three Types of Activities (Absorb, Do, Connect)
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In higher education, the effectiveness of teaching plays a significant role in how students engage with the material and achieve learning outcomes. One approach to structuring the course activities involves categorizing them into three distinct types: Absorb, Do, and Connect. By classifying activities this way and designing them intentionally to meet dynamic learning objectives, instructors…
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Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions
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What does a “good” multiple-choice question look like? What aspects influence a multiple-choice assessment’s reliability and validity in terms of assessing target learning outcomes? Although the answers to these questions may vary depending on who you ask, there are common themes that emerge when you look at recommendations from assessment experts. Check out these seven…
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Creating Intentional and Impactful Multiple-Choice Assessments
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Multiple-choice quizzes are one of the most common forms of assessment in higher education, as they can be used in courses of nearly every discipline and level. Multiple-choice questions are also one of the quickest and easiest forms of assessment to grade, especially when administered through Canvas or another platform that supports auto-grading. Still, like…
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Why Didn’t Anyone Do Today’s Reading? – Engaging Students by Building Relationships
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Article by Pamela Rivers The semester is well under way. Your students have taken their first exam. Some are active and excelling. Others have stopped coming to class or are not completing the assigned readings. Welcome to the end of September. Maybe you thought this time it wouldn’t happen. Everyone was eager and excited and…
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Importable Canvas Resources on Canvas Commons
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CATL has created several Canvas resources that UWGB instructors can import directly into their Canvas courses through the Canvas Commons. To import any of the following resources into your course, access Commons from the global navigation menu while signed into Canvas, and search for the resource by its title below. You can import the resource…