Teaching and Learning

How do I delete the test student?

New materials can leave kids in the fog. Here are five metacognitive questions they can use to find their way and become more independent learners.

How can we ensure every student has an opportunity to access, participate in, and collaborate with each other online?

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For high-stakes student presentations, find out how you can use the LASER Blueprint methodology as a professional guide.

TL;DR Blueprints are a powerful tool that can be used for pushing content from one course into one or more other courses. They give you the option of locking individual pieces of content in the blueprint course to restrict editing capability for that content in other courses. They are great for dist...

HyperDocs are a way to give high school students easy access to everything they need for the week in one place.

Before you can evaluate group work, you will need to create a group assignment. Students can submit Google documents, pages, and other group work as an assignment. Open SpeedGrader Open SpeedGrader from the group assignment. View Group Submissions When evaluating group assignments, the SpeedGr...

You can create a group assignment by using the Group Assignment checkbox. Canvas uses group sets to assign group assignments, and each group within the group set that is assigned to the assignment is required to complete the assignment. When creating or editing a group assignment, you can assign an ...

In our Instructor Guide, you will find everything you need to know to use Canvas as a teacher, from creating assignments to managing course settings.

#Ungrading folks, do you use any formative tests?— Karen Costa (@karenraycosta) May 25, 2021

Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, and Mia Zamora share about community building activities on episode 349 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

by Nancy Chick  Print Version Cite this guide: Chick, N. (2013). Metacognition. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/metacognition/. Thinking about One’s Thinking |  Putting Metacognition into Practice Thinking about One’s Thinking Metacognition is, put simply, thinking about one’s thinking.  More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess...

Find out how collaborative note-taking can support a learning community, peer success, student assessment, and an inclusive environment.

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By Emily Reynolds. But research into the prevalence of learning style myths also has its flaws, the team points out.

You can import prior content from Moodle exports into Canvas. Note: Moodle Lessons are not supported by Canvas import. Open Settings In Course Navigation, click the Settings link. Import Content into Course Click the Import Course Content link. Select Content Type In the Content Type drop-d...

The learning management system (LMS) can be a vibrant hub of digital classroom activity as long as it is simple and navigable.

Canvas allows you to manually bulk create users, accounts, terms, courses, sections, enrollments, and logins through the Admin interface. This document references the SIS Import CSV Format API page, where the majority of the CSV information is located. Each CSV file is symbiotic with another and tel...

Amy E. Crook and Travis W. Crook outline strategies to promote meaningful engagement for online students while at the same time providing a rich face-to-face learning environment.

The first few weeks of school are so important when it comes to lying the foundation for the entire school year. This is the time we build community, learn about one another and develop trust. For educators teaching remotely this is a challenge in and of itself due to the fact that the group will no

Good rubrics can make it easier to fairly assess students’ work. Good rubrics also help students understand how their work is being assessed. But a good rubric takes time to develop. That&#82…

Although some colleges and universities have made great strides in accessibility, progress is uneven across higher education. Our survey of college st

Teaching, Learning, and Student Success: 2020 in Retrospect and 2021 in Prospect