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Creating Measurable Assessments on Canvas

Online Educators, Quality April 15, 2019May 14, 2021 Erika Huezo

Finding ways to engage students with course content and adequately assess mastery of material is an ongoing process. There are many ways of assessing students, including by having them submit written assignments, work in groups to create a final artifact, or exchange ideas in a discussion forum. These types of assignments allow students a chance […]

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Alternative Assessments – Breaking Away from High-Stakes Exams

Online Educators August 16, 2018August 27, 2018 Jennifer Antoon

We can all recall a time when we felt stressed, anxious, or exhausted from preparing for an important exam. High-stakes exams are common practice in many of our learning experiences. While these exams can be an appropriate choice for some courses, take a moment to reflect on whether there is a better way to assess […]

Designing Assessments to Promote Concept Retention

Online Educators May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 Joshua Rees

Designing assessments for your course that help your students learn and retain skills, theories, and gain mastery will encourage student success, as well as provide inherent motivation to complete the tasks you assign. By employing a variety of assessment types, you can provide opportunities for students with different learning styles to understand and absorb key […]

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TidyUp: Your New Canvas Best Friend

We’ve all been there: we’ve been teaching the same course for a while, completing course copy after course copy, and making changes every semester to continuously improve the student experience. Then one day, we go to the Files section of our Canvas course and see an overwhelming number of files. To make matters worse, we […]

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Hello, ChatGPT.

Okay, let’s talk Who or what are you?  ChatGPT is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. Using deep learning techniques, it is able to generate human-like text, making it a powerful tool for natural language processing tasks such as language translation, text summarization, and conversation simulation. With its ability to understand and respond to […]

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