Midterm season has officially arrived! This time after the first major assessment of the semester can be the perfect time to pause, reflect on your teaching thus far, and ask your students for their feedback. Benefits of collecting midterm feedback Taking time to reflect and consider making small changes to your current courses can reap
Cheating in the classroom isn’t something new. Students use to think they were clever by replacing their water bottle labels with notes or using the back of their calculator covers to hide formulas. As technology grows, it opens more avenues for students to find ways to cheat. Instead of water bottles, students began to use
Last year we posted Teaching Untethered: Step away from the podium. We want to now review how students can benefit from the technology in our Chapman classrooms. More and more learners are now bringing their digital devices, such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones, into the classroom. Instructors can use these devices to engage the classroom,
Dear Chapman Community, Did you know that there is a way to search Chapman classrooms to see what a classroom looks like and what the room features are? Using the Online Classroom Inventory (OCI), you can: Search Chapman classrooms by building, by feature, by capacity, or by category (laboratory, active learning classroom, etc.). View photos
Gradebook Message Students Who Default Subject Line Summary When composing a message from the Message Student Who link in the Gradebook, a default subject line is added. Change Benefit This update improves instructor workflow by automatically inserting a corresponding subject line when composing a message to students and observers with the Message Student Who link.
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
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
Have you ever wished that course content was available in a different format? Maybe you read a lot on your mobile device, use a screen reader, like to highlight, or prefer to listen to an audio version. Did you know that here at Chapman, we have a tool in Canvas called Ally that helps instructors
Teaching untethered removes the physical barriers that separate instructors from the students. The connected classrooms are equipped with Apple TV. Instructors use airplay on the iPad to share their screen with the classroom projector. We encourage instructors to interact with their students and step away from the podium. Instructors can walk around the classroom and
The Problem You’ve had a quiz or an exam in your class recently that your students took in person, on paper. You have since graded your students’ quizzes/exams and would like to post their grades in the Gradebook in your Canvas course. Except there is no column in sight where you can enter the grades!