• Podcast,  Teaching & Learning

    Transform Your Teaching: Student Perspectives – Flexible Deadlines, Tech Integration, and Real-World Applications 

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat do students think about flexible deadlines, technology integration, and real-world applications in the classroom? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss with Lauren and Daniel.   Please take this opportunity to fill out our 2025 wrap-up survey. This survey should take 5-10 minutes and your responses are anonymous. If you would like to be entered for the Uncommon Sense Teaching drawing, you can share your name and email address at the end of the survey. Even if you enter the drawing, your survey response will remain anonymous.  View a transcript of this week’s episode.  Podcast links Resources  Chat with us! 

  • Podcast,  Teaching & Learning

    Transform Your Teaching: Behind the Scenes with Professor Eric Stroud

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, Rob McDole and Jared Pyles chat with Eric Stroud (Instructor of Communication at Cedarville University). They discuss his professional experiences prior to stepping into higher education and the adjustments he had to make during his first semester of teaching.   Please take this opportunity to fill out our 2025 wrap-up survey. This survey should take 5-10 minutes and your responses are anonymous. If you would like to be entered for the Uncommon Sense Teaching drawing, you can share your name and email address at the end of the survey. Even if you enter the drawing, your survey response will remain anonymous.  View a transcript of this week’s episode.  Podcast links Resources  Chat with us! 

  • Canvas,  Educational Tools,  Teaching & Learning

    Beginning of Semester Reminders and Tips

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to the start of a new semester! Today we’re going be chatting about some tips and reminders to make the first week (and the rest of the semester) easier. We know there’s a big chunk of time between semester starts, so it’s easy for some of these things to slip your memory.    Combining Canvas sections   You may be teaching multiple sections of the same course but want to combine all your students into one section so you have a single place to work on the course. Canvas makes it simple to combine those multiple sections into one. A brief note: you’ll need to combine them before…

  • Podcast

    Transform Your Teaching: Goals for 2026

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat are we doing in 2026? In this episode, Rob and Jared discuss the topics that they are looking forward to covering this year.  Please take this opportunity to fill out our end-of-the-year survey. This survey should take 5-10 minutes, and your responses are anonymous. If you would like to be entered for the Uncommon Sense Teaching drawing, you can share your name and email address at the end of the survey. Even if you enter the drawing, your survey response will remain anonymous.  View a transcript of this week’s episode.  Podcast links Resources  Chat with us!