Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow can faculty make their learning objectives clearer and more specific? Does AI resilience require changing the objectives themselves or changing how students demonstrate their learning? Join Rob and Jared as they work with Dr. Trent Rogers (Dean of the School of Biblical and Theological Studies at Cedarville University) to revise objectives in a biblical exposition capstone course. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Resilience & Objectives – Lecture
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhy is it so important to provide students with a clear target? How can better objectives lead to better outcomes? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss how to create AI-Resilient objectives. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Tranform Your Teaching: AI Resilience & Backward Design Principles
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDoes Backward Design look different now that AI has changed the world of education? How does “starting with the end in mind” produce courses that serve students well? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss how a backward-design approach enables teachers to create AI-resilient courses. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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What Do I Need to Know about Using Proctorio in Canvas?
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you want to use a lockdown browser with your quizzes or exams in Canvas, Proctorio is the answer. It’s not hard to start using it, but there are a few things you need to know. You (and your students) must use Google Chrome. Proctorio works through a Chrome extension, so you cannot use any other browser when adding Proctorio to a quiz/exam or when students attempt the assessment. Before you can add Proctorio to a quiz/exam, you need to add Proctorio to your course and install the Chrome extension. Adding Proctorio to your course Since Proctorio is enabled at the course level, you will need to follow these steps for each course where you want to use Proctorio. Installing the Chrome extension Once you’ve added Proctorio to your course navigation, click the navigation link. You’ll be directed to a page…
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Transform Your Teaching: AI Resilient Course Design – Kickoff Part II
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat level of specificity should you provide about how students can use AI in your courses? What are some practical steps for implementing design concepts that will help your courses be more AI-resilient? Join Rob and Jared as they share a “practical menu” of six components instructors can use in their courses. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Turnitin: Grading using SpeedGrader
Reading Time: 4 minutesLast post, we talked about the new Turnitin Clarity features, what Clarity is, and how to use it. Even if you use Turnitin (either the standard assignment type or Clarity), you can still use Canvas’s SpeedGrader and rubrics for grading. SpeedGrader will still give you access to all of Turnitin’s reports and information about the submission – you just need to know where to look. When you open a Turnitin assignment, you’ll see this kind of table with submission information. Students name their submissions, and you can see that title directly under the student’s name. You can also see the submission date and time information, then there’s the “Grade” column (which you can just ignore – that’s for grading…
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Transform Your Teaching: Needle Movers – Dr. Carmen Amo Alonso
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat is happening at the bleeding edge of Generative AI? Can an LLM ever be controlled? What is being done to help users get the best outputs from their LLM? Join Rob and Jared as they discuss this with our newest needle mover, Dr. Carmen Amo Alonso, Postdoctoral Fellow in AI at Stanford University. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Introduction to Turnitin Clarity
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, faculty has access to a new Turnitin feature – Turnitin Clarity – in addition to the standard Turnitin checker. Clarity gives you a little more information about your students’ writing process by requiring students to write directly into the tool in Canvas (students cannot upload a file in Clarity). Because students are writing directly in the tool, you can see additional information such as the amount of time students spent writing, the number of sessions they used to write, what sections of text students copied/pasted in, as well as a timeline recording of edits made to their submission. As you review the flags and data provided by…
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Transform Your Teaching: 2026 Conference Reflections
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat were some of the major themes at conferences this summer? What did Jared and Ryan get to talk about during their presentations? What were their takeaways? In this episode, Rob chats with Jared and Ryan about the conferences they attended and presented at during the summer of 2026. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Book Review – Creating Impactful College Courses
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn this episode, Rob and Jared review and share their thoughts on Designing Impactful College Courses: Applying Self-Determination Theory to Unleash the Potential of Autonomy-Supportive Learning Environments by Emily B. Bonem, Daniel Guberman, and Chantal Levesque-Bristol. View a transcript of this week’s episode. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!