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Rethinking Assessments
The pandemic made us take a hard look at most aspects of our lives and consider if there were new ways to do old things. One area of education that received a lot of attention was online assessment and whether testing remotely made it too easy to cheat.
This month, we continue our Lasallian Way Online podcast series about academic integrity. We'll look at ways to redesign assessments that can limit cheating and improve the quality of learning.
Also in this newsletter:
- Set your office hours for advising in Starfish
- Join us for a Community of Inquiry next Friday! We'll discuss practices and tools to curb cheating online
- Sign Up for our Instructional Video and Video Editing courses
- We're rolling out a new learning opportunity for faculty on HyFlex course design! Sign up for this summer seminar.
Sincerely,
Dale Hale
Director of the Center for Digital Instruction
Dean of the College of Adult Professional Studies
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LWO Series: Academic Integrity
Tools/Practices to Improve Online Assessment
We've launched a special The Lasallian Way Online (LWO) series inspired by our conversations with CBU faculty. This is the final installment of our series about academic integrity in online courses, and how we can approach it as Lasallian educators.
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CBU Instructional Designers, Tyler Isbell, Kyle Purpura, and Shontale Bryant share ideas that can curb cheating, while also enhancing the value of assessment.
Follow the same link below to catch up on previous episodes in this series. LWO is a monthly podcast produced by the Center for Digital Instruction (CDI). It is dedicated to issues in online education, and how we can approach them from the Lasallian tradition.
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Let's Talk about Academic Integrity Online!
Join your colleagues and the CDI team to talk about lessons you've learned and share practices about successful online assessment.
Join us virtually on Friday, March 25th from 1:00 -1:30pm.
Copy this Webex link and add it to your calendar
Meeting Password: 2485 281 4887 |
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As always, we'll keep the meeting open after for more questions and discussions. Use this same link and password to attend COI every fourth Friday of the month!
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Starfish Tip of the Month
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Changing Office Hours for Advising
Starfish is the simple way to schedule meetings with your advisees! When you sync your Outlook calendar to Starfish, students can only set appointments for blocks of times you've added.
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Synching Outlook with Starfish will help you avoid double booking. If you make an appointment in Outlook that conflicts with your Starfish Office Hours, Starfish will make that time unavailable for future student appointments.
If you've already set up Office Hours in Starfish, here's a simple guide to update hours. Check out our Faculty All-in-One How-To guide for Starfish. You'll also find a link in this guide to share a Starfish How-To designed for your students. We encourage you to email this link to students so they can get the support they need at CBU.
If you haven't completed the Starfish Training there are two ways to learn:
Problems accessing the training? Email: starfish@studentsuccess.cbu.edu
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Advising for Online Courses
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Prepare Your Advisees for Online Learning
Nearly all students have experienced virtual learning but few have taken asynchronous online courses like we offer at CBU. It's a different mindset to manage their own time. You can help prepare them during advising.
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Here's an infographic with key points to share with students about online learning!
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CDI Summer Seminars
Enjoy your summer AND learn some new skills with CDI's Summer Seminars.
- Create Instructional Videos
- Edit Instructional Videos
- Plan a HyFlex Course
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These facilitated, asynchronous courses give you the guidance you need with the flexibility you want in the summer. Click here to register
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The Center for Digital Instruction offers two classes that develop your skills as an online educator and course designer. Both provide stipends and a path to earning more money for developing additional online courses.
- Online Faculty Training (OFT): Learn the basics of teaching online and how to build a module. Sign up now for one of our Summer courses.
- Online Course Design (OCD): Once you've successfully completed OFT, the next level is a semester-long dive with the entire CDI team. You'll leave this course with a beautifully designed online course and the skills and credentials to develop more for CBU! Sign up now for our Summer OCD!
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We have all kinds of ways for you to get started on Canvas:
- Canvas Online Faculty Quick Start Course. NEW! We highly recommend you choose this method, our most comprehensive Canvas short course. Learn how to create discussions, quizzes and how to develop modules. This on-demand class can be started at any time and completed at your pace! Begin here!
- Canvas Quick Start Guide. We developed this Quick Start guide when professors had to quickly convert all classes online in the Spring. If this type of learning works for you, here's the Canvas Quick Start.
- Canvas Video Tutorials. If you learn best by watching a series of videos, check out our Video Playlist on YouTube.
- Canvas How To's. Bookmark this page on our CBUdigital.org site to get quick how-to's for a variety of Canvas features. Click here.
If you have Canvas questions that are more advanced or need to speak to one of our trainers, we're here. Contact: CDI (901) 321-4004 CDI@cbu.edu
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Article to Guide Students in Class Discussions
Read Here
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Faculty Vision for Transformation of STEM Education
Listen Here
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Guide for Teaching Simulations Online
Read Here
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CDI Dropmark: Curated Collection of Articles about OL Teaching
Read Here
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CBU has an institutional membership with Academic Impressions. Register for your account with your CBU email, and sign-up for high-quality, webinars, conferences, and institutes for free! |
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Featured free AI course: "Strategies for Developing Workforce-Aligned Learning" (ON-DEMAND) Click here to watch
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Interested in digital labs? Check out this free OLC webinar. Learn more about tools and teaching styles that work best for online labs.
Featured free webinar: "Digital and Hands-on Laboratories: Upgrade your Online Science Course."
On-Demand: Click here to watch
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The CBU Digital website is a faculty resource to help you move your course further along the digital spectrum. Whether you are teaching a traditional, hybrid or online course, explore ways to develop your Canvas shell. The Digital First site also has links to webinars, articles and strategies that can build a more dynamic classroom experience for you and your students. |
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If you plan to use Respondus Proctoring software for full-term and 2nd term exams and have not already prepared yourself and your students, it's imperative you start now.
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Since February 2020, CDI has been adding to this robust resource of Canvas, WebEx and Remote Teaching guides created for faculty. You can add this guide to your Canvas Dashboard by clicking here. |
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Consider assigning your students to take this QuickStart guide for Canvas. It has a tool to assess tech readiness for Canvas and WebEx, guides your student through the Canvas template and provides tips on succeeding in an online class! |
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Want to help your students better navigate online learning? Share this website with them. CDI developed this site to help students with technology issues, online learning strategies, Canvas and WebEx. Add this website to your course to give students extra support. |
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Tutoring Resources for Students. CBU offers free tutoring services for papers, presentations, math, language and a host of other areas. Direct your students to the Services page in Starfish or this tutoring shell in Canvas.
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NEW resource from Plough Library - dozens of videos and tutorials that can be added to your Canvas course! Click here to view. Plough has also put together an excellent list of remote resources for both you and your students: COVID-19 Library Support.
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You can also check this Faculty Resource page to find your school Liaison for specialized assistance and other faculty helps! Plough Library has also announced guidelines for posting articles in Canvas.
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Find Us on MyCBU!
Find our newsletter archive, Canvas resources, trainings and more on the MyCBU website under "Campus Resources." Click here! |
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