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Using the New Turnitin Feedback Studio iPad App

by Trey Shirley | Sep 22, 2016 | Adams Blog, Instructional Technologies

Turnitin released its new Turnitin Feedback Studio app (download here). For ACU Faculty to sign in, open the app and select “Log in with Access Code.” Next, open a Canvas course in Safari on your iPad (not on a laptop, and not in the Canvas app). Navigate...

Houston Heflin researches HeadsUp as a technology tool in collaborative learning environments

by Trey Shirley | Nov 1, 2015 | Adams Blog, Mobile Learning

The Adams Center would like to recognize faculty who have exhibited extraordinary teaching, scholarship and service. We want to congratulate faculty members for their hard work, achievements and advancements in their field. This month we are spotlighting Houston...

The Impact of Mobile Technology on Student Attitudes, Engagement, and Learning

by Trey Shirley | Sep 10, 2015 | Adams Blog, Featured, In Case You Missed It, Mobile Learning, Recording

In this presentation, Houston Heflin shares the results of a study examining student engagement and higher order thinking skills in a cooperative learning environment both with and without mobile devices. The study was conducted with 170 university students in three...

Copy a Canvas Course from a Master Shell

by Trey Shirley | May 1, 2015 | Adams Blog, Course Development, Instructional Technologies

This video will be useful for you if you have built a Canvas course shell and now want to copy it into the live course you requested through myACU. Check this page for additional Canvas resources.

Campbell Lecture Series: January 21, 2014 with Carisse Berryhill

by Trey Shirley | Jan 23, 2015 | Adams Center Event, Faith & Learning, In Case You Missed It

Long before James K. Smith, Campbell understood the importance of beauty, narrative, and imagination in moral formation. Exciting manuscript evidence reveals the roots of his aesthetics, his pedagogy, and the practices he employed as a Christian educator.

ACU Chooses Canvas

by Trey Shirley | Dec 12, 2014 | Adams Blog, Instructional Technologies, Mobile Learning

It’s official – Canvas is now the enterprise learning management system for Abilene Christian University. Canvas is built in such a way that it can effectively be used for both fully-online and face-to-face courses. Tools such as SpeedGrader make grading and...
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Blog Posts

  • How To Effectively Use Technology in the Classroom: Student Fellows
  • Vimeo
  • Using Lockdown Browser for Secure Testing
  • Lecturing from the Screen
  • Semester Course Template
  • Try Canvas New Features
  • Adams Center’s Berlin Fang Receives Award
  • Faculty Fusion 2018
  • Adding extra credit
  • Online Teaching Summer Camp
  • Summer Faculty Institutes 2018
  • Have Canvas automatically deduct grades for late submission
  • ACU in Leipzig – Adams Center hosts faculty workshop   
  • Adams Center Summary Report 16-17
  • Back-to-school list for Canvas
  • Cloud Clipboard: Copying content between your computer and devices
  • 2017 Fall Faculty Reading Groups
  • Faculty Fusion 2017
  • Use Blueprint courses to synchronize changes
  • Canvas and Turnitin Dates
  • Making your classroom hospitable for international students
  • Tools to make scheduling easy
  • Use a semester template for your course
  • Canvas Semester-end Reminders
  • ACU Faculty Honored for Using Turnitin
  • Encourage students to view your feedback
  • Common Turnitin Issues
  • Using the New Turnitin Feedback Studio iPad App
  • Does your course deliver what your syllabus promises?
  • Fall 2016 Adams Center Reading Groups