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You’ll find the latest from the Adams Center staff here at the Adams Blog.  The content varies, but the subject is always the same: teaching and learning.

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I'm looking forward to venturing out to a state park with Bill and the girls this weekend and staring at something other than a screen. I hope your weekend has something equally renewing. -- Laura Cliff shared this quote in New Faculty Orientation this week, and it...

Student Instructions for Submitting Videos to Discussion Board

If your professor asks you to post a video to a discussion thread, you can do that easily in Canvas.  Here are the steps to follow: Go to the discussion in your course. Typically it is in a course module. When you have found the discussion, click on "reply." Find the...

Creating Pages With Tabs

If you have multiple sections of a page, you can create tabs in Canvas using the same page, without having to make your page super long. See the example below: I have created a template for doing this: It is now shared in Canvas Commons that you can import (Link, or...

Using Google Slides Audience Q&A Tool

If you use Google Slides to present, use its fairly neat audience Q&A tool, which might work especially well when you are teaching to both face-to-face and remote students. You can easily tell who asked what questions and present your selected questions to the...

Friday Link Round Up

I certainly enjoyed the fall weather this week, and I hope it added a little spring to your step! Enjoy your weekend. -- Laura Beating Pandemic Burnout How the Pandemic is Pushing Professors to Improve their Pedagogy We're All Socially Awkward Now

Creating groups in Canvas

Canvas groups can be used to create group discussions, assignments, and projects. Check this tutorial to learn how it works.

Friday Link Round up

On Wednesday, I had 19 soaked first-year students in my Cornerstone class -- everyone present -- and I was buoyed by their energy and willingness to engage in hard conversations (week two's Cornerstone spotlight addresses the banality of evil). I hope you found...

Who We Want To Be

The new Master Teacher cohort spent some time this week thinking about descriptive words and phrases that they hope describe them as teachers. The list included such important and exciting desires, we wanted to share them more broadly.   This group hopes students...

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