Center For Learning & Teaching - CLT at Champlain College

Many thanks to our colleagues in the Office of Accessibility for co-organizing! We're really looking forward to this event.

As we approach finals, a useful tool within Canvas is the Speed Grader to help grade some of those backed up assignments. Using Speed Grader, you can view, annotate, comment and fill out your rubric with ease. Want to try Speed Grader out? Find a full tutorial here:

Using SpeedGrader - The Center For Learning & Teaching Canvas’s SpeedGrader feature is an integrated tool that bridges Assignments and the Gradebook. For most kinds of online assignment submissions, you can use SpeedGrader to view, annotate, comment, fill out the rubric (if you use one), and assign a grade that will appear in the Gradebook. SpeedGrade...

As we enter the beginning of the end to the semester, end of term grades will be due - follow this step by step article from the CLT on the end of term grade book procedure:

End of Term Gradebook Procedure - The Center For Learning & Teaching Please follow this end of term Canvas gradebook procedure before entering grades into Self Service. Please note: Ensure all assignment grades are posted before following this procedure. For more information, please see Canvas’s documentation on setting grade posting policies. Navigate to the Gra...

Using animation for material in your class can help students visualise and understand complex topics that may be hard to explain by lecture or readings. Using a video format can keep students engaged and facilitates deeper comprehension, it can also be valuable to students to be able to replay videos when they need to. Interested? Check out this article below!:

Animating education: a teaching tool that brings learning to life Through animation, educators can transform complicated or abstract subjects into accessible narratives, facilitating students’ comprehension and enhancing the learning experience, writes Nigel Bairstow

Champlain faculty and staff: the Educational Advisory Board is offering a great virtual workshop, "AI and the Future of Higher Education," just for Champlain tomorrow! You'll find the details in your Champlain Calendar. We hope you'll join us!

A recent push focuses on deconstructing ableist speech patterns in regard to neurodivergent people in and out of higher education. Check out this article to become more informed on the implications of some of these speech habits:

On the neurodivergent campus, language matters The neurodiversity movement has made great strides, but out-of-date, ableist language is still prevalent, even in academia. Carrie Ballantyne advises us to think about the words we use

Why are students so disengaged?
You may or may not be asking yourself exactly this question when you are navigating through the material for your class. A recent survey found that 55% of undergraduates and graduate students say they struggle to remain interested in their classes. What can help with this? Click the article below to read more.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/13/fight-student-disengagement-real-world-projects-can-help

Shaking up the traditional quiz format to allow students to talk amongst each other can further enchance learning through collaboration, shared information, and reasoning. Want to try this format in your class? Use these tips from a lecturer at Simon Fraser University here:

Entice students back to the classroom with community quizzes In this post-pandemic landscape, how can we encourage students to turn up to in-person classes and teach them how to learn together? Mark Lechner believes community quizzes are the key

Are your students not participating in class discussion as much as you want them to?
Having a collaborative structure can help your student’s minds get going on the topic you are presenting.
The CLT has an article providing advice for designing class discussions here:

Designing Class Discussions - The Center For Learning & Teaching There are many strategies and technologies available to maximize the impact of discussion in your course. If your teaching centers around discussion and collaboration, regardless of your platform or medium, consider the following directory of options as you design or redesign courses, or choose acti...