Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s a simple process to submit your final course grades to the registrar from Canvas. Before you start this process, however, you’ll want to follow these three tips for checking your Canvas gradebook to make sure you’re all squared away. Once you’re ready, follow these three steps: 1. Click the “Submit Grades to Registrar” link in your course menu. If you don’t see the link there, click “Settings” in the course menu then the “Navigation” tab. Drag and drop “Submit Grades to Registrar” from the inactive items list to the active items list and click “Save.” 2. Scan the information on the “Submit Grades” page. Is…
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Transform Your Teaching: Needle Movers – Dr. Michele Dodds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow has AI changed nursing practices and patient care? What can educators do to leverage AI to train nursing students for their future careers? In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Dr. Michele Dodds about how she is “moving the needle” through using AI to train future healthcare professionals. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Stirring Motivation – Lessons Learned
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow important is it to balance autonomy and provide guardrails? Why is it so important for instructors to build relationships with their students? Join Rob and Jared as they reflect on our series and consider the major takeaways from our series “Stirring Motivation.” View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Designing Autonomy-Supportive Learning Environments with Dr. Chantal Levesque-Bristol
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow does Dr. Aelterman’s Teaching Compass apply to the higher education context? How do students respond to choice within boundaries? Could a hyflex approach be used to stir student motivation? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Dr. Chantal Levesque-Bristol (Professor of Education Psychology & Executive Director of the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue University). View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Life Outside the Classroom with Dr. Michele Worley
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat are some stressors that could influence a student’s motivation to be active in a course? How can instructors help students acclimate to higher education? How can an instructor connecting on a personal level influence student motivation? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Dr. Michele Worley (Assistant Professor of Education at Liberty University). View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Applying Psychology to Practice with Dr. Stephen Aguilar
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat information about their success can motivate a student’s learning? What shouldn’t be shared? What roles can learning mastery and Generative AI play in motivation? How much feedback is too much for students, and what type works best? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Dr. Stephen Aguilar (Associate Professor of Education at USC) to answer these questions and more. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Course Accessibility: Alt text, Tables, and Lists
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s time to dive back into the Canvas Accessibility Checker and chat about the rest of the issues it checks for. This week, we’ll be taking a closer look at image alt text, tables, and lists. Alt text Canvas checks for a few different issues that can pop up with alt text – if an image has alt text, if the alt text is different from the file name, and how long the alt text is. Canvas does automatically assign the file name as alt text when you upload an image, so you should rarely get the “no alt text error.” For any of the alt text…
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Course Accessibility: Headings, Links, and Color Contrast
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday we’re going to start our dive into the new Canvas Accessibility Checker and tackle a few of the issues it checks for. We’ll cover the rest of the items next week, but for now, we’ll focus on the text-based items. Before we start looking at the individual items, let’s chat about how to get to this tool and run the report. In your course, find the “Accessibility” link in your course navigation and click it. The first time you go to this page, you’ll get a note that says you have not yet scanned your course and a prompt to scan the course. Once the scan is complete, you’ll see a graph detailing the kinds of issues and a list…
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Transform Your Teaching: The “Teaching Compass” with Dr. Nathalie Aelterman
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat is the “Teaching Compass?” How can it be used as a tool to adjust our teaching to meet the needs of our students? Join Rob and Jared as they chat with Dr. Nathalie Aelterman (Co-founder of Impetus Academy, a spin-off from Ghent University) about how to provide pathways that motivate students to learn. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Course Accessibility: Intro
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday, we’re kicking off a new series on accessibility – Canvas has a new tool they’ve launched, and we want to take this opportunity to also revisit accessibility principles and how they apply to each of us – regardless of whether your class is online or face-to-face. While these may seem like they’re just “extra work” or something that doesn’t make a difference, they’re still best practice. And by preparing our courses and materials to be ready for whatever needs a student may have, we’re showing our love for others in action. Across this series, we’ll explore how Canvas tools can help us in this journey – as well as what they don’t cover but we still need to address. We’re excited to dive in and explore all this with…