Last fall, many of you filled out our survey about classroom amenities and technologies. I would like to share with you what we learned from that survey and how it is informing our work in the classrooms.  First off, these are the activities that faculty identified as being well-supported in our classrooms.  Note: I have bracketed the activities that are identified as not well-supported, because these are primarily “collaboration” activities:
bar graph showing survey resultsThe next question is related and shows how faculty routinely spend classroom time:

graph showing a breakdown of time spent on classroom activitiesIt is telling that faculty spend a good portion of class time with students doing group-based activities. As a result of this data, we are now prioritizing flexible furniture in classrooms as we refurnish them. We are also ensuring that, when possible, students can easily share content to classroom displays via HDMI cable connection or through AppleTV screen-sharing.

Another question we asked, was what faculty wished they could do better in their classrooms, and this was the response:
Of course we want to make sure that you have all the resources to ensure you can do these tasks, which are doable in most of our classrooms.  To that end, these links may prove useful for you:

A few links that will offer a respite from grading Final Exams:

And one last question before you head off for your restful summer: Are you interested in working with other Chapman faculty to develop an AI bot or Agent to provide support for your students through Canvas?  If so, please drop me a line (remy@chapman.edu) because I’ll be convening a faculty Working Group on this topic soon.