Teaching and Learning

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

A course format with a creative grading scheme and weekly formative midterms produced large gains in student success with test items requiring higher-order cognitive skills. This format is designed...

Moodle Import Process Navigate to your Course Administration block. Click Question Bank > Import Note: If you do not have a course block for Administration, you may be able to find this under t...

Equity and privacy problems with online proctoring reflect a larger issue: Students look to universities to set an example of integrity.

Instructure is committed to consistently improving the Canvas user experience. The cloud-based platform maintains an agile production cycle with bug fixes, enhancements, and new features in three Canvas environments: beta, production, and test. All Canvas environments are also available on any mobi...

As educators, we must work to create welcome and inclusive learning environments that promote equitable and successful outcomes for every student. We also know that learning is more than an intellectual exercise. Students bring to our classes their hopes for the future, their fears of failure, and the range of emotions one experiences when encountering new and challenging ideas in […]

Ideas from faculty who were tasked with creating alternative assessments to implement in a blended synchronous learning environment.

How will the learning management system (LMS) change? The Future Trends Forum explored this key ed tech topic with Dan Goldsmith, CEO of Instructure, maker of the Canvas LMS. https://www.instructure.com/ https://www.instructure.com/canvas/

Three approaches for making connections in the online classroom, so students know you care and are ready to learn.

The IDEA Instruments are designed to provide feedback you can use—formative feedback that gives you suggestions for improvement—as well as summative feedback that can be used as a component of a mo...

Instructure, the parent company of learning management system Canvas, is introducing a new credential for educators who wish to demonstrate their mastery of the platform. The Canvas Certified Educator Program was announced at the CanvasCon conference Wednesday. It is an online certification with two tracks -- one for K-12 and one for higher education. “Canvas Certified Educator is a direct response to requests from our customers the past few years,” said Melissa Loble, chief customer experience officer at Instructure, in a press release. “They want to have a deeper knowledge of the platform...

One day in your early school years, a teacher probably told you to “take notes” for the first time. Looking around at your fellow classmates, this seemed to involve writing down what the teacher said, word for word, on lined pieces of paper. For most of us, this is how our experience of note-taking started: ... Read more