Building Classroom Trust with Technology: Create an Honor Contract to Support Academic Honesty
Introduction: Two Approaches to Academic Honesty At the University of Chicago, each incoming first-year student receives a copy of Charles Lipson’s book Doing Honest Work in College. Much more than a symbolic gift, this is a reminder that academic honesty is vital if...
Level Up Your Assessments: A Guide to Migrating from Canvas Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes at UChicago
The academic landscape is constantly evolving, and so too are the tools we use to support teaching and learning. Here at the University of Chicago, our Canvas Learning Management System is a cornerstone of our educational experience. You may have noticed a new option...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 3: Experiment with (and Scrutinize) AI Together
“A computing system that permits the asking of only certain kinds of questions, that accepts only certain kinds of ‘data,’ and that cannot even in principle be understood by those who rely on it, such a computing system has effectively closed many...
Promote AI-Discerning Students in the New Academic Year, Pt 2: Start with a Conversation
Faculty Interviewer: “How attractive, as a student, is it if all of these readings you get in a class you could, yourself, just put them into a podcast and listen to a five or ten minute podcast rather than reading the papers?” Undergraduate Student: “Oh, it’s very...
Create Accessible Equations and Formulas with LaTeX, Canvas, and Overleaf
The typesetting system LaTeX (pronounced “lah-tech”) is widely used in academia, especially (though not exclusively) in STEM fields, to represent content in an organized and visually appealing fashion. One of LaTeX’s great strengths is its ability to format...Subscribe by Email
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