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See details about your classroom online

The College’s room reservation platform (EMS) is loaded with helpful information about your classroom. A step-by-step example I see at HornetHQ (I needed my short form username and password) that I’m teaching in Olds Upton Hall, Room 207 this term. Click here for a post with more details about how to find details about your […]

Use the new Bookings app to schedule advising meetings

Dearest Advisors,  If you already use MS Outlook to manage your calendar, there’s a new app called Bookings available in our MS Office suite. Bookings allows students to sign up for meeting times based on your availability at Outlook. Here’s an 8-minute video screencast that shows the steps I used to set up my advising […]

Send a Moodle Message to students who haven’t submitted an assignment.

This morning I wanted to send a message to those students in my class who hadn’t yet submitted the first homework assignment at Moodle. A little Googling led to this solution. It requires several steps, but I found it easy once I put it all together. You can see the process from start to finish […]

Putting the “Room” back in the classroom — Josh Moon

As we move toward the goal of a fall term at K that is “fully on campus”, people are in different places with their comfort, options, privilege, and vulnerabilities in spending more time in-person on campus. In some ways, the move back in to the classroom will be as fraught and uncomfortable as the exit. […]

“Sometimes I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know Until I’m Taking the Test…” Rethinking the Midterm — Siu-Lan Tan

After attending Dr. Amer Ahmed’s faculty workshops on Intercultural Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy, I have become more aware of how the teacher is traditionally positioned as the “knower”, and students are expected to give as “perfect” as possible a “performance” of knowledge dispensed by professors and textbooks. And I began to think about how our […]