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Feb 13, 2024
Adding Grading Rubrics to your Course
Rubrics serve as guiding tools for instructors in evaluating their students' work or performance, enhancing reliability, validity, and transparency in…
Feb 08, 2024
State Library OER Grant Opportunity for Instructors
The FY24 budget for the state of Illinois appropriated $3 million in funding that the Illinois State Library has made for authoring, revising/remixing,…
Feb 06, 2024
Syllabus and Assignment Icons to Guide Student Use
Syllabus Statements
Whether you want to encourage or discourage students' use of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in your course, syllabus statements…
Jan 31, 2024
Teaching Tip: DesignPLUS Homepages
Just before our winter break, we shared with you some information about adding a homepage to your Canvas courses. However, if that information got lost in the…
Jan 23, 2024
Implementing the "Plus One" Strategy
The "Plus One" strategy revolves around consistently adding one new element, feature, or improvement to your course to continually enhance its quality. Here's…
Jan 10, 2024
Semester Launch Info - Spring 2024
Key Dates
New to Canvas? Learn with us. Join the Canvas Basics Zoom workshop on January 11th at Noon.Students added to Canvas on Friday, January…
Dec 06, 2023
There’s No Place Like Home (Pages) for the Holidays
As we wrap up the fall term and prepare to begin intersession, we would like to wish you all a wonderful winter break. We are thankful for all you do to make…
Nov 15, 2023
High Engagement Practice: Tying It All Together – Reflection and Learning Transfer
At the start of term, we spend a lot of energy planning the first interactions of a course and setting our students up for successful learning – introductions…
