Transforming your syllabus from a static document to a living, breathing resource enhances your teaching flexibility while being more engaging and accessible to students. What’s not to love?
Check it out in the most recent of our Tips ‘n Techniques series: The Liquid Syllabus.
The Canvas Discussions Redesign, formerly a Feature Option for adventurous instructors, will be rolled out to all Canvas courses on Jun 12, 2024. In this Teaching Tip, we’ll look at some of the more important changes and new features for instructors.
Check it out in the most recent of our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Canvas Discussions Redesigned.
Traumatic experiences, which affect many of our students whether we know about them or not, can significantly affect one’s learning, behavior, and relationships at school. Trauma-informed teaching involves understanding, recognizing, and responding to the effects of trauma on our students.
Check it out in the most recent of our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Introduction to Trauma-Informed Teaching.
Learning to understand and affect one’s own thinking can result in a wide range of benefits. In this tip, avoiding the theoretical weeds as much as possible, we take a practical look at what metacognitive skills are and some approaches to developing them in your students.
Check it out in the most recent of our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Teaching Metacognitive Skills.
Did you know Canvas provides an integrated tool for shared annotation of web pages and PDF files, an activity that is often significantly more engaging and pedagogically rich than the traditional discussion forum activities? Learn how the tool works, and how students respond, in this 50-minute session with Dr. Nicole Blair.
In this one-hour session, Dr. Sundermann and Dr. Heller review the principles of authentic assessment, specifically related to using reflective essays in lieu of exams.
What is ChatGPT? Why does it matter to educators? The “danger” to education posed by ChatGPT has been overstated and the positives too often overlooked.
Let’s take a closer look at ChatGPT and some of its possibilities in teaching and learning in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series Considering ChatGPT,
We’ll delve deeper into pedagogical approaches using ChatGPT in future Teaching Tips!
Featured image based on a photo Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash
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
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
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:
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment
