As a faculty member who teaches a mix of online, blended, and in-person courses each semester, I’m always on the lookout for aspects of Canvas that are both useful for students and can save me time in the semester. On this Valentine’s Day (whether you love, hate, or feel neutral about the holiday. Personally, I […]
Peer review has been a staple of my pedagogy since I taught my first class as a TA at CSU Northridge in 2009. Back then, students printed their papers and brought them to class, and I ran peer review during our class session. Fast forward twelve years and now there are many different ways I […]
Begin program and/our institutional-level assessment with Canvas Outcomes today. What Is “Canvas Outcomes”? It is a user-friendly Canvas tool in which faculty can: 1) upload program-level or institutional rubrics into courses, apply them to assignments, and rate students on outcomes while grading in Canvas and 2) view aggregate reports of how students fare on […]
When I first began teaching fully online courses about five years ago, I was lucky that I had some incredible colleagues that let me “borrow” activities, course organization, and other lived-and-learned lessons from their experiences teaching online. I also used our Teaching & Learning Innovations resources — I was part of the Summer 2014 Blended […]
“To go fast, go alone. To go far, go together.” – African Proverb quoted in Together is Better by Simon Sinek The Group Work Challenge I have been fortunate in my teaching career to work on classes that have creative, meaningful and interesting group projects. The projects my students work on require most of the […]
First of all, I just wanted to take a moment to welcome you all to the Fall 2018 semester. It’s great to see the campus abuzz with students, faculty, staff, and guests again as we get this semester underway. I also wanted to remind you that Teaching & Learning Innovations (T&LI) is here to support […]
I can hear the groans already: “Not another rubric pusher! Enough with this cockamamie writing-instructor stuff!” But I am neither a traditional rubric pusher nor a writing instructor. Instead, I am an art historian who had never graded successfully with rubrics before trying them out in Canvas—and now I absolutely swear by them for Canvas […]
Many of us award extra credit in our courses. As an art historian, I like to encourage students to visit museums and galleries, attend artists’ talks, watch documentaries, and engage in other co-curricular activities in the world of the visual arts. It’s very easy to incorporate extra credit into grade calculations when one is grading […]
Happy New Year!! It’s the first week of January and we are happy to announce that a series of new course banner designs are now available upon request for your CI Learn (Canvas) courses. There are 5 designs available in blue, grey, red, teal, and yellow; each color has two options: with your name (options […]
“But I want my students to learn to keep their own calendars. Auto-scheduling assignments for them doesn’t support this life skill.” This was a colleague’s comment earlier this year as I was touting the benefits of building assignments in Canvas. She collects papers in hard copy and had planned to provide students with PDF assignments […]
