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 […]
Blog Posts
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 […]
Connecting at a Distance — Bruce Mills
As the weeks progressed and things got increasingly difficult, I appreciate[d] Dr. Mills giving us the space to speak/write if we needed to and step away if we had to. I don[‘]t think this online transition was perfect, but I think Dr. Mills was consistently thinking about us as people and then as students, and […]
You need to be using screenshots — Rick Barth
In my communication workflow in this crazy online era, I have realized that I can often avoid a wordy description with a picture: A formula or figure from some online source A little piece of the student’s online submitted work I’d like to comment on specifically A funny meme 🙂 I can make that happen […]
PSYCH250: Social Psychology — Brittany Liu
Registration: 2 sections of 25 My plan is to conduct my Social Psychology class all online. I’m combining my favorite parts of asynchronous and synchronous teaching online. I also am trying to be as flexible as possible, knowing that some students and their families are not out of the woods yet, that home responsibilities may […]
HIST102 Modern Europe — Christina Carroll
Registration: 27 I’ve put together a mock-up model below that I think would work for an intro-level history class. I wanted to add as a caveat that this is not actually the model that I’ve decided to use in the fall – I’ve decided to run with an online class with synchronous discussions on Teams […]
GERM101: Beginning German 1 — Kathryn Sederberg
Registration: Lecture 23, Lab 12