Learning and Educational Center
Group assignments are a useful way to bring students together and give them important real-world experiences. They can take the form of projects, presentations, or collaborative papers. This article includes some strategies that can be used to successfully manage group projects.
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Would you like to assign grade weights in Canvas so that your assignments, discussions, quizzes, and tests each contribute a different percentage to a student’s final grade? This is quick and easy to do in Canvas. Within each assignment group, a percentage is calculated based on total points available in that group. This video tutorial will walk you through the basic steps.
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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is an easy-to-use tool to foster strong connections within a course. This tool is offered to educators for free and can be integrated into your Canvas Course to allow students and you the opportunity to record their responses to topics in fun and innovative ways.
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This workshop is designed to show you different classroom technologies that can assist you in enhancing your online, blended, or face-to-face classroom experience. The instructor will take you step-by-step through each topic by telling you what it is, why you would use it, and demonstrate how to use it before you try it. During this fast-paced workshop, we will share unique features about the tools that you use everyday but may not know everything about. This session will cover a variety of Canvas Features including setting Module Requirements, Assignment Groups, and Canvas Commons.
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This month, the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences (HCAS) is partnering with The Foundation of Environmental Stewardship (FES) to offer the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Launch on the NSU campus. Endorsed by all 193 of the UN’s Member States, the SDGs represent the international framework for cooperation on humanity’s most pressing challenges. The launch will establish a program to educate, empower, and mobilize youth to become activists for sustainable development in their community. Learn more about how faculty can support this initiative.
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Instructure Canvas, our Learning Management System, is offering free, one-on-one, online coaching sessions on any topic related to Canvas that you may want guidance on. The program, called Panda Pros, started last year and because of the great response and feedback, they have brought it back. The program is running right now until September 18th. You can sign up for these 45-minute sessions that run from 9AM to 6PM MDT and are available every day of the week – including weekends!
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We are excited to announce our inaugural LEC Teaching and Learning Conference taking place via Zoom on Wednesday, November 2 and Thursday, November 3, 2022. The theme, Connect, Engage, Inspire, depicts the actions we take to form relationships with every learner. We invite all NSU educators to submit a proposal that embraces this theme. Please see the Call for Proposals for specific presentation topics and other details.
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Engaging students at a distance and in the classroom can present challenges. Poll Everywhere provides a way to interact with your students with activities designed to ask questions, drive participation in group activities, and encourage students to share thoughts and insights from their phones or computers.
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The Faculty Book Club is a group of faculty and faculty support professionals who gather weekly to discuss a book that the group has selected. The first round of meetings occurred in the summer of 2022. The plan is to hold meetings in the fall, winter, and summer semesters.
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Bloom’s taxonomy provides a common language for designing instruction. Although Bloom’s cognitive hierarchy is typically used for designing instruction to help students move up the hierarchy in knowledge, student learning can take place in any or even all of Bloom’s three main domains of learning. Course designers can use Bloom’s taxonomy to create learning goals that will increase learners’ knowledge in the cognitive domain, develop skills in the psychomotor domain, or encourage students to move up the hierarchy in the affective domain from having passive feelings to perhaps more involved feelings.
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