These posts focus mostly on technology tips
Estimated read time: 4 minutes Note: This post pertains to email privacy policies at the University of Michigan. If you are not part of the UMich community we hope that this post will give you… Read More »What you need to know about email privacy at University of Michigan
If you haven’t already seen it, I recommend Sarah’s post: Checking in: How to collect and respond to student feedback online which details the why and how of collecting student feedback. This brief post is… Read More »Customize this Form to Collect your own Student Feedback
As much as we hope you found out about the Canvas outage last night with a mild “huh, ok,” when you read your email this morning, we know it’s more likely that the Canvas outage… Read More »Canvas was down?! Now What?
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes One way students personalize physical textbooks and review course content is by annotating and writing in the margins. Learning technologies like Perusall expand on this idea by allowing students to… Read More »Increasing Student Engagement with Social Annotation
I was excited that I had the opportunity to present an interactive workshop called Avoid the Gloom and Doom of Zoom on Tuesday the 19th of 2021. Since it was interactive workshop recording would have… Read More »Avoid the Gloom and Doom of Zoom
How to streamline your course menu for students benefit By Chris Casey, University Coordinator of Digital Education together with Jessica Riviere, Instructional Consultant On November 18th, Chris Casey and Jessica Riviere presented very briefly on… Read More »Hiding Menu Items
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Discussion board activities offer an opportunity for students to share their knowledge, debate, and otherwise interact with each other. Have your students been complaining about discussion board assignments, calling them… Read More »Tired of “post once, respond twice”? Rethinking discussion board activities
Read time: 1 min 30 seconds text only or 5 min 44 seconds with video | Exciting news! The UM-D 2021 Winter Canvas Templates have launched and are now available in the Canvas Commons. For… Read More »UM-D 2021 Winter Canvas Templates