Creative ways to use technology to give student feedback
I happened upon The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Advice Guide How to Give Your Students Feedback with Technology. The guideContinue Reading
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Introducing the new myCourses Rubrics creation experience
For those of you who have spent countless hours fiddling around, inputting criteria and levels in the clunky myCourses RubricsContinue Reading
Student emails: a creative video guide to email etiquette MAINTENANT EN FRANÇAIS!
McGill University’s Teaching and Learning Services strives to be responsive. So, when we received requests to translate our popular instructionalContinue Reading
Getting students to distinguish fact from fallacy in the media
Faculty of Management Professor Elena Obukhova is eager for her students to become “discerning media consumers.” In a recent articleContinue Reading
Hacking myCourses: Printing quizzes
In this post in our new series “Hacking myCourses,” we look at a simple way to print out Quizzes createdContinue Reading
The Lunch Spot: Let’s talk teaching
What do 2 prize winning instructors, 10 instructors from a variety of disciplines and TLS staff have in common? TheyContinue Reading
Student emails: A creative video guide to email etiquette
While many students have mastered the art of email, others tend to take “poetic license” – unclear subject lines, omittedContinue Reading
Getting students to focus on questions, not the answers
On May 5, 2017, McGill’s Assessment and Feedback Group held an event entitled Getting students to focus on the questions,Continue Reading
How to get students to have productive discussions using clickers
PhysPort posted a great article on “How can I get students to have productive discussions of clicker questions?” on theirContinue Reading
Sychronous online classes: 10 Tips for engaging students
Marie Norman from Faculty Focus just posted a very interesting article online on “Sychronous Online Classes: 10 Tips for EngagingContinue Reading