by Sarah McDaniel | Jan 14, 2022 | Events, Instructional design, Services
This is the third installment in a three-part series about social annotation. Part 1 explored social annotation in the context of teaching in the undergraduate Core: “Part 1 (Teaching in the Core)”; part 2 focused on a variety of language pedagogy contexts:...
by Thomas Keith | Jan 4, 2022 | Instructional design, Services
Beginning Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, Panopto is enacting a new default video archiving policy. The archiving of identified videos will begin January 14, 2022. Under the terms of this policy, any Panopto video that has not been viewed in thirteen months will automatically...
by Thomas Keith | Jan 3, 2022 | Events, Instructional design, Services
Winter Quarter 2022 is almost here, and now is the perfect time to request a course blog for your Winter course. Course blogs are a powerful tool for stimulating student creativity and can fill many different roles within your pedagogy, from discussion boards to...
by Mohammad Ahmed | Dec 2, 2021 | Instructional design, Services
This post focuses on Poll Everywhere as a tool for student engagement. For more on Poll Everywhere at UChicago, please visit the Poll Everywhere service page and consider registering for the upcoming workshop “Poll Everywhere Faculty Discussion” to be held on December...
by Thomas Keith | Nov 30, 2021 | Instructional design, Services
Gradescope is a software tool that can significantly streamline the grading process for handwritten work. With Gradescope, you can create a living rubric and use it to assess student work, adjusting the rubric as you go to maintain grading consistency across...
by Ziting Wang | Nov 23, 2021 | Instructional design, Services
Gamification in Higher Education: What and Why? Most people, when they think about gamers, picture teenage boys who are so addicted to games that they are glued to their computers. But the actual statistics show that the population of adult women gamers outnumbers...
