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USask Releases New Syllabus Template and Guide

Before starting work on your syllabus for the Fall term, be sure to look through the new syllabus template and guide. While you’re departments, colleges, or schools may have their own syllabus template, the guide will provide you with a…

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You May Have Too Much Content, But What Should You Take Out?

One of my favourite blog posts is actually entitled “Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong, really” and it’s by Grant Wiggins.  I know it’s a depressing title, but it speaks to the problem we often have in higher…

Using Poll Everywhere to Integrate Formative Assessment in Courses

The university recently announced that Poll Everywhere will be the new integrated polling tool at USask. As you begin planning for the fall term, you may be considering how you will make use of formative assessment in your courses, including…

USask Moving to Poll Everywhere for Student Response System

Beginning this month the University of Saskatchewan will be transitioning to Poll Everywhere as the integrated polling tool at USask, replacing Top Hat. This decision was made after extended consideration and demonstrations from vendors. Instructors will be able to use…

Helping Students Build Resilience

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased stress and mental health challenges for many people, including instructors, staff, and students. To help our students, and each other, to build or rebuild resilience we need to take a multi-pronged approach. While the university…

Improving Accessibility with Canvas’ Rich Content Editor

Small formatting changes on Canvas Pages, Assignments, Quizzes and the Syllabus page can make your course more accessible. Using the suggestions below will improve clarity, readability, and navigation for all your students. In the Rich Content Editor (RCE) menu bar,…

April 28, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology.

Assigning Students to Act as Discussion Moderators

During in-class discussions, the entire class and the instructor may be part of the same discussion, but sometimes instructors put students into smaller groups, with multiple discussions happening around the room. While the instructor may be able to walk around…

April 26, 2022 in Canvas, Instructional Strategies.

Discussions in Canvas – Asking Good Questions – Part 2

The exchange of questions and responses is vital to teaching and learning. The types of questions we pose as instructors should grab our students’ attention and curiosity, reinforce key points, encourage reflection, and foster active learning. Discussions in Canvas –…

April 18, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Theory, Instructional Strategies, Uncategorized.

Discussions in Canvas – Asking Good Questions – Part 1

Asking questions is one of the most powerful tools we have as instructors. Just like asking good questions in class, promoting discussion with questions that capture students’ attention and stimulate intellectual engagement can be facilitated online, using Canvas Discussions. Crafting…

April 12, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Educational Theory, Instructional Strategies, Remote Teaching.

Aligning Your Discussion Questions With Purpose and Desired Outcomes

Many instructors indicate that they struggle with how to come up with good questions of students, whether during a synchronous session (in-person or on Zoom) or in the discussion forums in Canvas. The purpose of this post is to help…

April 3, 2022 in Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional Strategies.

Serious (about) Academic Misconduct? A lesson plan

Students encounter mixed messages when it comes to the seriousness of different forms of academic misconduct.  As instructors, we may be assuming that our colleagues teach about and respond to academic misconduct issues in a similar way to ourselves, when…

February 14, 2022 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation.

Writing Learning Outcomes for the Sustainable Development Goals

This is a series around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each post will dive into one of the goals and how we as educators can strive to embed these into our own courses. It is in the author’s opinion…

February 3, 2022 in Uncategorized.

Choosing a mix of F2F and remote online? Tips for smoother hybrid approaches

The University has announced a return to campus stating Feb. 7th.  With the exception of some specific programs designed to provide hybrid options, instructors are not expected to teach students face to face (F2F) and online at the same time…

February 2, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Remote Teaching.

Understanding final grades in the Canvas gradebook.

With contributions from Carmen Harder, Training Specialist, Client Experience, Client and Technology Success The dashes that you see on the Canvas gradebook indicate missing assignments. When calculating final grades Canvas does not treat these missing assignments as zero. In this…

January 25, 2022 in Assessment and Evaluation, Canvas.

Immersive Reader Enhances Accessibility in Canvas

The Immersive Reader option in Canvas helps students access your course materials, whether they have a certain learning or medical disability, use English as an additional language – or could simply benefit from its text to speech function. The Immersive…

January 4, 2022 in Canvas, Educational Technology, Inclusivity.

Masking protocols and a values-based approach to norms in the classroom

As we start to anticipate the needs of students and instructors at the start of term, we recognize that some folks will be on-campus and in-person for the first time since the pandemic began. We know that setting the tone…

December 20, 2021 in Uncategorized.

Assessment Design and Academic Misconduct

First, the not-so-good news There is no such thing as a “cheat-proof” assessment.    Now, for the good news Instructors can reduce the likelihood of academic misconduct through assessment design and the context for assessment.    Such designs and contexts…

December 1, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation.

Syllabus Links to Academic Misconduct Regulations: Necessary but not Sufficient

The syllabus describes the course, outlines the requirements, and sets the expectations.  Important expectations relate to academic integrity, and ensuring academic misconduct is avoided. Updated Template at USask The University’s syllabus template has recently updated some of the standard information…

November 30, 2021 in Academic Integrity.

Collaboration technical tools

One of the essential goals of the Learning Technology Ecosystem at USask is to allow students to connect to others. While collaboration skills are one of the essential skills most employers describe, the need for collaboration tools is actually more…

November 18, 2021 in Educational Technology.

GMCTL to Launch New Open Course on Open in Early February

The University of Saskatchewan is a leader in Canada around open educational resources (e.g. textbooks) and is moving toward wider integration of open pedagogy (students as contributors, not just consumers of knowledge). As part of this, and in the spirit…

November 1, 2021 in Educational Technology, General, Inclusivity, Instructional Strategies, Open.

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