In this video blog I share my thoughts on how I’ll use digital whiteboarding in my class this fall. I teach organic chemistry, a discipline that is rooted in drawing chemical structures — lots of pictures! To help students understand this discipline, its helpful to do this work together. I plan to run my class […]
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First Year Seminar — Chuck Stull
I think incoming First Year Students will need more structure, so their asynchronous work will have deadlines Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This daily work will be a combination of readings, my videos, and their written responses. Bigger papers will be continue over several days or weeks. Synchronous activities: On Monday and Wednesday, I will meet […]
Econ275/Busn 275 Industrial Organization and Public Policy — Chuck Stull
I taught this class in the Spring, so the online backbone is already in place. This is a combination of my videos, readings, responses to the videos and readings, quizzes, industry research, and some optional materials. This part is all asynchronous. These will be opened Monday morning and due Sunday night. The new part will […]
A Necessary Trick in Teams for PowerPoint Presentation in Live Meetings
At the #KTeachDev2020 Live Session on July 22, I awkwardly tried to work around a little annoyance in Teams: when screensharing a PowerPoint window in a live call, Teams won’t let me see the chat or the list of participants. When using Teams to record lectures that isn’t a problem, but it is a deal […]
Helpful additional features in Moodle quizzes — Duong Nguyen
In this 6-minute video, I show a few features that I found helpful in Moodle quiz Adding random questions Repaginate Preview the quiz User Override
First Year Seminar — Elizabeth Manwell
Enrollment: 16 Typically, this class is discussion-based. Students engage in a lot of group work, write in some form almost daily, and discuss or present course material constantly. Writing is emphasized, and I use time to focus in on practicing skills they can use going forward (i.e., marking a text, close reading, developing a topic […]
Greek 201: Intermediate Ancient Greek — Elizabeth Manwell
Enrollment: 4 This is the last course in the 1st year language sequence. Traditionally, we have met four times per week. For the fall, I am planning mostly an online course format, with optional in-person meetings: Some notes: Class is flipped Synchronous work will be used for collaboration, practice with concepts, group work and readings […]
ECON305 Intermediate Microeconomics – Patrik Hultberg
Enrollment: 25 (Spring 2020, 31) As the intermediate microeconomics course is a core course for both majors, students in the course are either economic majors or business majors. The course is characterized by a heavy reliance on calculus. The assignments are mainly problem-based. In the past, due to its emphasis on mathematics, students have found […]
Leading with grace and reprioritizing with distance learning in a global pandemic — Brittany Liu & Kyla Day Fletcher
Too long, didn’t read: In this post, we reflect on some of the course design choices we made for our large, Psychology research methods course. A lot of things we’ll keep, some we’ll change. Knowing we couldn’t simply teach the course the same as previous iterations, we used these guiding principles and focused on 1) […]
Importing Question Banks for Moodle Quizzes — Duong Nguyen
The Moodle web interface allows easy categorization of the questions, but that method will take time if you want to create a big test bank since it requires multi-step navigation via on-screen buttons to write each question. Here I’ll show straightforward ways to construct and import questions to Moodle and create a question bank. Once […]