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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.
Curating What Appears on Faculty Web Profiles
A new tool on Faculty Success now allows faculty members to select which publications, presentations, service, and courses appear on their web profiles. This video demonstrates how to use the tool. In general, look for the "Allow Sharing" column on various...
Teaching Squares
This fall, the Adams Center will offer an opportunity for any interested faculty to learn from one another through our Teaching Squares initiative. We are blessed with many gifted teachers at ACU, and this program creates a formal structure for soliciting the wisdom...
Faculty Fusion 2022
Join us Friday, Aug. 19, for Faculty Fusion 2022! Sessions will cover innovative teaching strategies and lunch will be served. Please RSVP to rvsp2ac@acu.edu to save your spot. At 1:30 we'll have a farewell reception for Berlin Fang. We look forward to thinking and...
End-of-Semester Reminders
As the semester draws to a close, we would like to send a few reminders as you wrap up your Canvas courses and get ready for the new semester: Change course dates Remember to check and change (if needed) the end dates of your courses while you have access. Check this...
Student Fellows: Attendance Policies
The following post was written by Anna Wasson and Spencer Kasselman, two of the Adams Center’s Student Fellows. The post is a summary of the session they facilitated. Before the bulk of the presentation, we wanted to begin with disclaimers on our presentation. These...
Create Essay Exams in Canvas
If you want to give students the option to answer an x number of questions out of y number of choices, here are two ways you can do that. https://youtu.be/h7yjNZESwIQ Either option has its benefits: With the new quiz option, you can Deploy Lockdown Browser so that the...
Student Fellows: Prioritizing Information and Study Guides
Two of the Adams Center Student Fellows, Natalie Silva and Karala Hough, facilitated a conversation about the importance of helping students learn how to prioritize information and how using study guides can assist with this. The following is a summary of their...
Student Fellows: Communication and Transparency
The following post was written by Lucas Vogt and Devon Hillary, two of the Adams Center's Student Fellows. The post is a summary of the session they facilitated. Some of the Adams Center Student Fellows spoke with faculty and staff about the importance of clear...
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