Let’s be honest: you approach the start of every semester with the perfect plan for a smooth online course. But as finals roll around, you find yourself buried in a heap of ungraded assignments, student emails, and rushed lectures. Dr. Amber Webber, an Instructional Design Manager at FIU Online and a seasoned professor, has been […]
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FIU Climbs 17 Spots in U.S. News Rankings
U.S. News Rankings: FIU shows biggest jump among Florida universities FIU continued its rapid ascent in the U.S. News and World Report rankings with a 17-spot improvement to No. 78 among public universities in the nation, according to the 2022 National University Rankings released Monday. FIU’s improvement is the greatest in Florida and third in […]
FIU Online Interns Get Innovative
Each year, FIU participates in a community-wide Summer Youth Internship Program (SYIP). This program runs in partnership with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. SYIP connects high school students with paid part-time internship opportunities across the university. This exposes them to the world of higher education administration. Additionally, it helps them gain invaluable skills that can be […]
Uplifting Assignments Spark Joy for Your Gradebook
FIU Online’s Insider Instructor Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective uses of technology for the online environment. Chicken Noodle Soup For Your Gradebook reviewed non-traditional learning activities and the process used to imagine them, in order to help you create assignments you enjoy grading. Instant Replay: Chicken Noodle Soup For Your Gradebook Grading […]
Learning Tools for Active Learning
FIU Online’s monthly Instructor Webinar series explores relevant instructional strategies and effective ways to use technology in an online classroom. The “Engage and Activate” webinar, presented in May 2021 by FIU Online’s Dr. Trina Sanders and Charles Roig, demonstrates how to use learning tools to incorporate active learning into your class. View the full instructor […]
FIU Online MBA Program Earns High Rank
The Professional MBA Online program at FIU’s College of Business (FIU Business) is ranked Number 10 in the world in the 2021 QS Online MBA Rankings. Also, the QS rankings placed the FIU Business program at Number 2 among all U.S. public school programs ranked. More About Our QS Rankings The QS rankings are recognized among the […]
Introducing Panther Book Pack
Starting this Fall 2021 semester, FIU is introducing the Panther Book Pack, in partnership with our on-campus bookstore, Barnes & Noble. This is an affordability and equity initiative whereby students taking undergraduate courses are automatically enrolled to receive all of their textbooks and course materials (physical and/or digital) at a fixed-rate of $20 per credit. […]
Cross-Listing Guidance for Canvas Courses
You are preparing for the new semester to teach multiple courses that have the same or interchangeable content. You find yourself copying the same content into several sections of the same course. Ideally, you would love one course to rule them all, but how? Perhaps you teach multiple labs or several levels of grad and […]
Prepping Summer B 2021 Final Grades
We would like to remind instructors of a few settings to consider with your Canvas Gradebook before grades are finalized and submitted. Canvas Settings for Final Grades Grading Scheme– It is essential that an instructor sets a course Grading Scheme that properly reflects the grading policy on the syllabus. Please verify your Grading Scheme is […]
Creating with CreatorPro: Syllabus Design Tool
A syllabus is the roadmap of a course. For many instructors, the labor of creating a syllabus is daunting. Luckily, FIU Online built a tool called CreatorPro LTI for university-wide use, which makes the process easy semester to semester. What is CreatorPro LTI? CreatorPro LTI is a syllabus creation and storage tool. The tool makes […]