Category: Teaching & Learning Resources
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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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“Required” Reading: Guiding Students Through Your Course with Canvas Module Requirements
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When you organize and present your Canvas content in modules, you gain the ability to add requirements that require each student to view and/or interact with specified course items before they can progress and access items positioned further down in the course module order. When used thoughtfully, module requirements are an effective tool for encouraging…
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Turnitin: Beyond Plagiarism Review
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A feature highlight for Canvas this week is Turnitin. Although most instructors may be familiar with this tool as a plagiarism checker, it has additional impactful uses within the classroom. While checking for plagiarism is important to ensure academic integrity in student work, Turnitin can also function as a powerful feedback tool and as a…
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Taking the Guesswork Out of Grades: Canvas Features for Grade Transparency
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In this article, we’ll be covering some ways you can incorporate grade transparency in your course, as well as the features built into Canvas that will allow you to do so. In each section we will highlight how these features are beneficial to both you and your students.
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Active Learning
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Research has long supported the effectiveness of active learning strategies. What is active learning? It is an umbrella term used to describe classroom techniques in which students must participate in a tangible way in their own learning, as opposed to passively attending to a lecture or other presented material.