The Cowbell
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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…
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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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Cold Lunch & Hot Topic Follow-up: To Record or Not to Record
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To Record or Not to Record? That appears to be the question many of us are asking ourselves. COVID has accelerated the presence of remote learning technology in the classroom. Much of this technology allows for videoconferencing and video recording. For many of us videoconferencing has become a normal part of the workday as…