Category: TeAch Tuesdays
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Bringing Your Canvas Course Forward into the New Term
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Creating a Canvas course from scratch is a lot of work. That is true whether you are teaching fully online or using your Canvas course to supplement in-person instruction. Thank goodness, then, that Canvas courses don’t have to be one-time use! When you teach a course with Canvas for the second (or third, or fourth…)…
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Articles, CATL Blog Posts, TeAch Tuesdays, Teaching & Learning Resources, Technology Guides and Trainings
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 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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Articles, CATL Blog Posts, TeAch Tuesdays, Teaching & Learning Resources, Technology Guides and Trainings
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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What’s in a Name? Tips for Learning & Using Students’ Names in Class
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As we head back into the classroom, many of you may be thinking of the regular challenge of learning and correctly pronouncing students’ names. There’s no easy solution, but evidence suggests it yields positive outcomes in the learning space. CATL has a new blog entry for you filled with specific strategies for working on names…