Dear Colleagues, As the Spring term draws to a close I’ve been thinking a lot about how I might better evaluate the efforts that I’ve put into crafting inclusive practices and culturally-responsive curriculum in the courses that I teach. To that end, I developed an evaluation rubric to gather feedback from the students in these
Kahoot! is an educational technology game-based platform tool designed to increase student engagement. Faculty can administer quizzes surveys and help facilitate student discussion. If you are interested in being part of Chapman’s Kahoot! EDU pilot or learning more about the tool’s features, please submit the intake form. Faculty can use their existing account or create a
Kahoot! is an educational technology game-based platform tool designed to increase student engagement. Faculty can administer quizzes, surveys, and help facilitate student discussion. Kahoot! increases the focus on subjects, motivates students to learn and is an effective method for active learning. By joining the pilot, you will be immersed in a virtual community of practice
Did you know that the Chapman community now has access to a tool called NameCoach? Students, instructors, and staff members can use NameCoach to create and share a recording of their name both inside and outside of Canvas. One great place to share your name recording (also known as your NameBadge) is in your email
Happy Monday! Chances are, you have some grading to do :-). For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose the 20-Minute Mentor “How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?” presented by Dr. Amy Mulnix. We highly recommend watching the full video in 20-Minute Mentor Commons in the Chapman University Magna Campus.
Final exam season has arrived. These last two weeks of the semester can be a super stressful time for both instructors and students. For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose a 20-Minute Mentor presented by Dr. Kristin Roush about how instructors can help students alleviate test anxiety. You can watch “How Can Students
Interterm and Spring 2022 courses are now available in Canvas! We hope that you will find these resources helpful if you need to copy content from a past Canvas course or a template course into an Interterm/Spring 2022 Canvas course. Canvas course copy best practices: Do not copy “All Content” when copying from one course
Final exam season has arrived! We hope that you will find this blog post helpful if you are planning to use Canvas Quizzes to deliver an end-of-semester quiz or final exam. Here are some of the most common questions and issues related to Canvas Quizzes. What do the quiz options/settings mean? Below please find an
We hope that you had a restful Thanksgiving break. Before Thanksgiving, we featured parts one and two of a three-part series of 20-Minute Mentors by Dr. Thomas (Tom) Tobin about Universal Design for Learning (UDL). For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we are finishing the series with “How Can I Implement UDL in the
For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose part two of a three-part series of 20-Minute Mentors by Dr. Thomas (Tom) Tobin: “How Can I Implement UDL in the Next 20 Days?” We highly recommend watching the full video in 20-Minute Mentor Commons in the Chapman University Magna Campus. See last week’s edition of