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Create Accessible Instructional Videos
To learn more about how to make your materials accessible, please see our other posts on digital accessibility. The author wishes to thank ATS instructional designers Joe Olivier and Cheryl Walker and Emily Baker of the Center for Digital Accessibility for valuable...
Digitize Paper-Based Assignments with Gradescope
“Grading is my favorite part of being a professor,” said no professor ever. While the principles and practices of “un-grading” have received attention recently, most teachers–and institutions for that matter–require grades as a means of evaluating student learning and...
Evaluate Different Lenses for Looking at AI in Teaching – Part Two
Regardless of your stated approach to AI in your class, there are still trends and attitudes in the larger world or simply in other educational settings that stand to have an impact on the environment you want to cultivate. Norms from other classes regarding AI and...
Digital Tools and Critical Pedagogy: Design Your Course Materials with Neurodivergence in Mind
This post is the fourth installment in a series on how to implement the principles of critical pedagogy with digital tools. For more information, please see previous installments in this series. The author wishes to thank instructional designers Michael Hernandez and...
Evaluate Different Lenses for Looking at AI in Teaching: Part One
Regardless of your stated approach to AI in your class, there are still trends and attitudes in other classes or in the world outside higher education that stand to have an impact on the environment you want to cultivate. Norms from other classes regarding AI and even...
Improve Your Videos’ Accessibility with New Panopto Updates
Accessibility (commonly abbreviated as a11y) is a vital consideration that should be at the forefront of all your course materials. As of April 9, 2024, Panopto, the University of Chicago’s video management system, has introduced updates that make it easier for you to...
Optimize Your Canvas Course Structure for Seamless Navigation
Tired of your students not being able to find assignments or submission links in Canvas? Using the same format since you started teaching? Here are some suggestions on how you can make your Canvas courses more streamlined, efficient, and interesting, to make life...
Explore Prompt Templates to Support Learning with Critical AI Use
“...learning to write with AI tools might be like learning photography with a DSLR camera, where the conceptual learning (light, motion, composition) is enhanced by the technical learning (figuring out what all those knobs and buttons on the camera do).” -Derek Bruff...
Share Your Stories of Progress for Global Accessibility Awareness Day
The Center for Digital Accessibility (CDA) will host several events in April and May to celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), which is Thursday, May 16. Visit the CDA website for our full GAAD agenda. As part of our celebration, we will applaud people...
Explore “Hallucinations” to Better Understand AI’s Affordances and Risks: Part Two
This post is the second part of a demonstration of “hallucinations” produced by Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. What this term refers to (through a personification) is the generation of outputs that contain factual inaccuracies in chatbot responses. In the...
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