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Classroom Polling Helps Humanities Students Find Their Voice
Matt Teichman, former Lecturer in Humanities, used Poll Everywhere to promote student engagement in his seminar-style “Language and the Human” course. He had his students come up with poll questions themselves and then used them as prompts at the beginning of...
Expanded Student Annotation Assignments in Canvas
With an updated release of Canvas that launched in mid-May, instructors now have access to an additional Assignment format on Canvas: Student Annotation Assignments. With the addition of Student Annotation Assignments to the suite of resources supported through...
Expanded Student Annotation Assignment Options in Canvas
With an updated release of Canvas that launched in mid-May, instructors now have access to an additional Assignment format on Canvas: Student Annotation Assignments. With the addition of Student Annotation Assignments to the suite of resources supported through...
Workshops for Instructors before Summer Quarter 2021
In the two-week period beginning Monday, June 7, Academic Technology Solutions will be offering a wide variety of workshops to help you prepare for Summer Quarter 2021. Whether you are just getting started with remote/hybrid teaching, or whether you would like to...
Graduate Students and Postdocs: Be a Digital Pedagogy Fellow with ATS!
Updated July 2, 2021: Applications should now be sent to Allison Kallo at akallo@uchicago.edu. Graduate Students and Postdocs, would you like to gain experience in digital pedagogy, help promote pedagogically sound use of educational technology at UChicago, and get...
Estimating the Universe: Blogging as a Pedagogical Tool in Astrophysics
Leslie Rogers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College, used a Voices blog in her Fall 2020 undergraduate/graduate course “Order of Magnitude Astrophysics” as a tool to introduce her students to problem solving. In the...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Is May 20
Thursday, May 20, 2021, is the tenth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which focuses on digital equality for the one billion people in the world with a disability. GAAD activities at the University of Chicago are coordinated by the Center for Digital...
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Is May 20
Thursday, May 20, 2021, is the tenth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which focuses on digital equality for the one billion people in the world with a disability. GAAD activities at the University of Chicago are coordinated by the Center for Digital...
Enhance Canvas Course Sites and Engage Students with Visual Aids
The migration from in-person classes to online teaching has had a significant impact on faculty and students. It has transformed the way faculty teach and students learn in many ways. In my experience, one of the biggest challenges for faculty is how to keep students...
A Tale of Two Online Quizzing Tools: Choosing between Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope Online Assignments
Online quizzes can be a good way to help students assess their learning. Faculty and instructors can now choose from two different options--Canvas Quizzes and Gradescope’s online quizzing tool, which the company calls “Online Assignments”. Though their functions and...
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