Dear Instructors and Staff, We hope that this message finds you well. Join us this summer in the Virtual Tech Hub for drop-in educational technology support via Zoom! Beginning 5/31/22, the Virtual Tech Hub hours are: Monday through Thursday from 2:30pm to 4:30pm* The Virtual Tech Hub is for instructors and staff with questions about:
For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose a 20-Minute Mentor that is full of ideas for short activities that you can use to break up your lectures, engage your students, and help your students remember what they are learning: “How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?” presented
Dear Instructors and Staff, We hope that this message finds you well. Join us this summer in the Virtual Tech Hub for drop-in educational technology support via Zoom! Beginning 5/31/22, the Virtual Tech Hub hours are: Monday through Thursday from 2:30pm to 4:30pm* The Virtual Tech Hub is for instructors and staff with questions about:
For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose a 20-Minute Mentor that is full of ideas for short activities that you can use to break up your lectures, engage your students, and help your students remember what they are learning: “How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention?” presented
For this week’s edition of Magna Mondays, we chose a 20-Minute Mentor all about Open Educational Resources: “How Will OER Benefit the 21st Century Student?” presented by Erik Christensen (Dean, Applied Sciences and Technologies, South Florida State College). You can access the video in 20-Minute Mentor Commons in the Chapman University Magna Campus. What are
Did you know that all Chapman instructors have access to an online professional development video library called Magna Campus? The Chapman University Magna Campus includes the following: 20-Minute Mentor Commons: A collection of 20-minute videos on teaching and learning presented by noted faculty leaders, covering topics including: Course and syllabus design Assessment and learning goals
Kick off your weekend by exploring the pedagogical possibilities and cost-saving potential of Open Educational Resources (OER). This five-part series of online webinar workshops—co-hosted by the Leatherby Libraries and the Institute for Excellence in Teaching and Learning—will introduce the OER concept, show you how to identify and adopt OER for your own courses, and share
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!
Are you using Quizzes in Canvas to create and deliver quizzes/exams? If you have students who need extended time for quizzes/exams (for example, “time + 1/2” or “double time”), you can use the Moderate Quiz feature in Canvas to give these students the extra minutes that they need for timed quizzes. The following video contains
Dear Chapman Faculty and Staff, We hope that this message finds you well and that your fall semester is off to a great start. The Educational Technology Services team wanted to share that we have added many new workshops to our new SignUpGenius page for 2021-2022. Topics include: Flipgrid in Canvas Untethered teaching with your
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 mid-semester feedback Taking time for a mid-semester feedback survey can reap so many benefits for both instructors
Dear Chapman Instructors, We hope that you are well and that you are enjoying these last few weeks of summer. As you are finalizing your syllabi and preparing your Canvas courses for Fall 2021, you may be grappling with the difficult question of how much work is the right amount to expect your students to
Magna Mondays 
New Fall 2021 Educational Technology Workshops 
Wondering how much work you should assign?