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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…

2 weeks ago May 12, 2022 in Assessment and Evaluation, General, Wellness.

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.

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.

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.

Improving Student Feedback Response Rates in Remote Courses

By David Greaves, Teaching and Learning Enhancement Specialist When it comes to student feedback, more is generally better. When we have higher response rates, we know that more student voices are being heard and that the feedback an instructor receives…

October 25, 2021 in Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional / Course Design.

Apply For Funding to Support Your Open Pedagogy Projects

Open educational resources (OER), particularly open textbooks, have become widely used at USask since the first adoption for a large class in early 2015. More than 8,000 students used OER instead of commercial materials during the 2020-2021 academic year. That…

April 12, 2021 in Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional / Course Design, Instructional Strategies, Open.

Easy ways to make your course more accessible

There are 3,000 students at USask who have some form of accommodation, so there is an excellent chance that your class has a student with a disability. Ideally, we’d all design courses that are universally accessible and reduce the need…

April 1, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation, Canvas, Inclusivity.

Using Oral Assessments to Collect Evidence of Learning

Oral assessments can serve as a great method to collect another type of evidence of student learning. It typically consists of a time-limited interview with a student to verbally confirm to what degree they’ve met one or more course outcomes…

March 30, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation, Remote Teaching.

Contract Cheating is Riskier than Students Think 

“Contract cheating occurs when a student procures a third party (who knows about and benefits from the transaction) to produce academic work (that is usually, but not always assessable work) that the student then submits to an educational institution as…

January 27, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation.

Instructor Strategies to Mitigate Contract Cheating

“Contract cheating occurs when a student procures a third party (who knows about and benefits from the transaction) to produce academic work (that is usually, but not always assessable work) that the student then submits to an educational institution as…

January 27, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation.

What is contract cheating?

 “Contract cheating occurs when a student procures a third party (who knows about and benefits from the transaction) to produce academic work (that is usually, but not always assessable work) that the student then submits to an educational institution as…

January 27, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation, Copyright.

Ready to Talk to Students About Suspected Academic Misconduct?

When you suspect academic misconduct in your course, it’s common to feel frustrated.  Some educators feel insulted or angry.  Some blame themselves.   Some people have a mix of all of this.   Regardless, if you suspect a student has engaged in…

January 7, 2021 in Academic Integrity, Assessment and Evaluation, Learning Charter, Remote Teaching.

Elevate Your Course Projects using Riipen

USask faculty members have been taking advantage of our new partnership with the Riipen project-based learning platform. Riipen provides an all-in-one platform for connecting, communicating, sharing documents, and managing deadlines between stakeholders (instructors, students, and community/industry partners). This post highlights…

December 15, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, Educational Technology, General, Remote Teaching.

How Canvas Supports Learner-Centred Assessment

This post is part of a series about using Canvas to integrate the eight Learning Technology Ecosystem Principles. You can find more about these principles here; in this post, we look at the eighth and final principle. Inclusive of learning-centred assessment: Learning…

November 8, 2020 in Assessment and Evaluation, Canvas, Educational Technology.

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