Faculty Success Stories
Canvas Conferencing Allows for Remote Classroom on a Snow Day
Canvas Conferencing is a powerful built-in Canvas tool that makes it possible for faculty and instructors to hold classes and office hours remotely. For Thomas J. Lee, a lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy, Canvas Conferencing proved to be a life-saver...
Live Streaming Creates Opportunities for More MAPSS Students
A month prior to the start of Autumn Quarter 2018, the leadership in the UChicago MAPSS (Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences) program was anxiously seeking a way to both record and livestream their lectures for each class period, and allow the stream to be...
Teaching with a Flipped Classroom
"The part of teaching that I enjoy the most is the direct interaction with students. My main goal with flipping the classroom was to increase the quality of our limited contact time." —Prof. Britni Ratliff What is a flipped classroom? The main idea in a "flipped"...