Checking in with your students at the mid-point of the quarter increases engagement and provides valuable insight for making mid-course corrections.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Midterm Check-Ins
Teaching Tip Live: Student Publishing with Google Sites
Canvas provides a plethora of useful features for facilitating a rich learning experience, but it is not particularly useful for teaching and learning in the open. Google Sites is a simple web publishing for students (and teachers!) to easily publish, and work, outside the Canvas walls. Like a tent. Get it? Onward!
Topics include:
- What is Google Sites?
- Why Open Teaching and Learning?
- Don’t Fear the FERPA
- How to Access and Build Google Sites
- Examples from UW and Beyond
TnT: Canvas Module Requirements
Canvas Module Requirements can convey expectations, enforce sequencing, and promote timely participation through allowing you to define requirements students must meet to mark a Module as complete and/or move on in a course. Requirements may include viewing items, marking items complete, submitting assignments, or achieving a minimum score.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Canvas Module Requirements
TnT: Early Engagement and Icebreakers
Learning is, to a large extent, a social endeavor. Helping students get to know each other—and you—as quickly as possible smooths the way for those critical social processes. We are focusing on virtual methods to support online and hybrid courses, but they all can be used for, if they didn’t originate in, the traditional classroom.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Early Engagement & Icebreakers
TnT: Save Time with the SpeedGrader Comment Library
A relatively new Canvas feature, the SpeedGrader Comment Library, allows instructors to easily save and re-use responses, routine or otherwise, across their Canvas courses.
Re-use can be a good thing! Because they have a broad overview of their feedback and comments across a course, instructors can feel ambivalent (or worse) about reusing comments and feedback for multiple students. But the reality is, as long as the comment is accurate and aligned with your grading criteria, the comment is new and useful to the individual student.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Save Time with the SpeedGrader Comment Library
TnT: Canvas Self-Help Resources
The UW Office of Information Technology and the UWT Office of Digital Learning are always here to help with your technical and pedagogical questions, respectively, but there are a plethora of resources to help you on your Canvas journey.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Canvas Self-Help Resources
TnT: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment
Alignment connects a course together from the broadest objectives to the most granular activities. Creating an aligned curriculum facilitates strategic thinking, ensuring—to the extent possible—that everything we and our students do is in service of a particular course’s learning goals.
In this Teaching Tip, you will learn to:
- Contrast specific, measurable objectives from non-specific, unmeasurable objectives
- Create specific, measurable course objectives
- Define “alignment” of course objectives
- Create specific, measurable module objectives that are aligned with course objectives
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment
Teaching Tip Live – Facilitating Engaging Online Discussions
Sparking rich discussion can be even more challenging online than in the traditional classroom. In this Teaching Tip Live session, we’ll look at some ideas for prompting and structuring discussions, and even rethinking what discussion means altogether.
Resources
- Teaching Tip Document
- Presentation Slides (PDF)
- Passport Stamp coming soon
Teaching Tip Live: Accessible Pages in Canvas
In this Teaching Tip Live session we showed you how easy it is to create accessible Canvas Pages that are accessible from the beginning. It isn’t just the right thing to do, enhancing equity and inclusion—and saving time in the future—it’s the law. But we’ll focus on the first part!
Resources
TnT: A Pre-Flight Checklist
In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks performed by pilots before takeoff. Based on a select few principles of the Hybrid/Online Course Development and Evaluation Rubric (despite the title, the Rubric largely applies to face-to-face classes too) and other best practices, using this checklist can help avoid needless problems before your course lifts off the virtual tarmac!
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: A Pre-Flight Checklist.