Reading Time: < 1 minute What kind of technological access did incoming college students have, and could that affect their college readiness? How might increases in mental health issues affect their college life? Will the “math shark” affect their academic performance? Are we already seeing its effects? Join Dr. Rob McDole and Jared Pyles as they detail the landscape of some challenges facing current and upcoming college students. Transform Your Teaching wants to hear from you! Please take our survey to let us know how we can make the podcast even better. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Creating a Student Profile
Reading Time: < 1 minute Where does the next generation of college students come from? What are their demographics? How does their school typology influence their college preparedness? Join Rob McDole and Jared Pyles as they share data and create a profile of Ohio’s current and incoming college students. Transform Your Teaching wants to hear from you! Please take our survey to let us know how we can make the podcast even better. Podcast links Resources Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: Understanding the New College Student
Reading Time: < 1 minute What does the new generation of college students look like? What experiences do they bring? What challenges should higher education faculty be prepared to face? Join Rob McDole and Jared Pyles as they introduce this new series. Transform Your Teaching wants to hear from you! Please take our survey to let us know how we can make the podcast even better. Podcast links Resources FOCUS Blog from the Cedarville University CTL Chat with us!
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Canvas Update: SpeedGrader Comment Formatting Options
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canvas is making leaving clear comments in SpeedGrader even easier with the update going live on September 11. In this update, some of the Rich Content Editor formatting options will be available in SpeedGrader. Previously, you could only leave plain text comments as submission comments in SpeedGrader. With this update, you’ll be able to organize your feedback to students better with headings, bulleted or numbered lists, bold/italic/underlined text, and even live links (some formatting options are under the “three dots” menu at the right of the ribbon). Additionally, Canvas will now let you edit draft comments! If you type out a comment and…
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Transform Your Teaching: Education in the Age of AI – One Year Later
Reading Time: < 1 minute Last summer, the Transform Your Teaching hosts talked a lot about AI and its role in education. What has changed in the world of AI since that summer 2023 series? Were Rob and Jared’s ideas on the trajectory of AI and its uses on point or totally off base? Listen as Rob McDole and Jared Pyles revisit some of their takes and give an update on the current climate. Podcast links Resources FOCUS Blog from the Cedarville University CTL Chat with us!
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Transform Your Teaching: A CBTE Conversation with Dr. Bennie Wolvaardt
Reading Time: < 1 minute What does competency-based education look like on an international scale? How can theological education and competency-based education be paired well together? Rob McDole and Jared Pyles discuss competency-based theological education with the founding president of Veritas College, Dr. Bennie Wolvaardt. Podcast links Resources FOCUS Blog from the Cedarville University CTL Chat with us!
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Canvas Update to the Update: “Assign To” Feature Is Getting Simplified
Reading Time: < 1 minute Previously, we talked about how Canvas has added new ways to update the dates for assignments, quizzes, and discussions. This week, we’re going to be talking about that same topic – but about another change that’s coming Wednesday, August 28. After releasing this feature, Canvas realized that there was one factor they missed accounting for across their design process – the ability to quickly view the due dates on the settings pages for assignments, quizzes, and discussions. So they’re fixing that and reverting the settings pages to their previous design. This doesn’t negate any of the other updates they brought with the original “Assign To”…
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Transform Your Teaching: Behind the Scenes with Lauren Eissler
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Rob and Jared chat with Lauren Eissler, who serves as the UX Designer and Editor at the CTL. She also edits all the content for the podcast (including what Jared is typing right now) [this sentence is Lauren-approved]. Listen as they discuss hockey, video games, and the ways we are trying to expand the podcast in the future. Podcast links Resources FOCUS Blog from the Cedarville University CTL Chat with us! Transform Your Teaching is also launching a monthly newsletter where we reflect on the past series, preview our upcoming content, and share an exclusive article. Subscribe today to get our inaugural…
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Canvas Update: Rubric Enhancements
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canvas has recently released some new updates to make creating and using rubrics easier. These changes can be seen in the “Rubrics” page in a course, the rubric builder, and SpeedGrader for any assignment that includes a rubric. Note: At this time, rubric rating descriptions will appear to be missing when an instructor views them through the student view. Students, however, can still see the rubrics and all information in them, including the descriptions for each rating. Rubrics page Previously, the rubrics page in a course was very simple – any rubrics in the course would be listed on the left, and there was also an…
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Beginning of the Semester Reminders and Tips
Reading Time: 2 minutes Welcome 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 gap 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 students…