Category: Teaching & Learning Resources
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LITE 115 Course: Enhancing Course Videos with PlayPosit
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Learning and Integrating Technology for Education (LITE) 115: Enhancing Course Videos with PlayPosit will equip you with the guidance you need to start building interactive videos, called “bulbs,” for your own courses.
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On Keeping a Teaching Journal
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Article by Tara DaPra, Teaching Professor & 2024-25 Instructional Development Consultant On the last day of the semester, I read the Brendan Kennelly poem “Begin” to my creative writing students, which ends thus: “Though we live in a world that dreams of ending/that always seems about to give in/something that will not acknowledge conclusion/insists that…
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Upgrading Outdated Kaltura Players in Canvas
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If you use Kaltura to embed videos in your Canvas courses, you may have noticed a change in the appearance of the video player for newly embedded videos. Kaltura video embeds created since August 5, 2024, use an updated “v7” player, which offers faster loading times and new features, including a searchable transcript panel, which…
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Digital Accessibility Tip: Creating Accessible Tables
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Looking to expand your knowledge of digital accessibility and learn quick strategies that you can easily integrate into your workflow? CATL’s blog post series on digital accessibility catalogues some helpful tips and tricks we’ve shared in our Teach Tuesday e-newsletter! In this tip, we’ll explain when to use a table and how to use table…
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Creating and Using Rubrics for Assessment
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A rubric is a scoring tool that breaks down the expectations for an assignment into grading criteria. Rubrics serve as a guide for students to complete an assignment successfully and as a measurement tool for instructors to determine to what degree students have met the assignment’s expectations. Rubrics are highly flexible and can be used…