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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.
Changing Your Web Profile Display Name or Photo
Your public web profile can be customized through Faculty Success. If you need to change your display names and/or photo, you can do so in Faculty Success. Please watch this video to see how to do it. Please note that there is some delay (12 hours) for the change to...
Student Attendance
If you have not used Attendance in Canvas (also called Roll Call Attendance), it is actually quite useful. Here is a video that shows you how to set it up, use it as a professor or as a student. https://youtu.be/-dnxXgbjs2A
Creating Experiences That Engage Difference
Dr. Brandon Jones spoke via Zoom about "Creating Experiences That Engage Difference." Dr. Jones is an ACU graduate who currently serves as Associate Director for Student Learning and Development in Housing and Dining and is a professor in the College of Liberal Arts...
January Jumpstart 2022: Student Engagement
The Adams Center hosted January Jumpstart Friday before the first day of class. This conversational session consisted of the Adams Center staff, and faculty in attendance, sharing engagement activities. The following ideas were shared. Please contact Amy Boone at...
Copying selected content of courses
When you start your semester, copying the course in an efficient way would save you a lot of time. You may start by creating a blank course (tutorial), and copy the course later on, using this guide. First, go to your newly created course, go to "settings," and choose...
Immersive Reader in Canvas
Microsoft Immersive Reader is a tool that can make reading materials more accessible to a variety of readers. It can be used to read text into audio, translate text into other languages, and alter the display of text to accommodate reader needs. Check this Canvas...
2021 Counseling Care Center Update
The Adams Center is always grateful to host Tyson Alexander, Director of the Counseling Care Center. Tyson shared some current trends the counseling center is seeing with faculty recently. It likely won’t come as a surprise that the counseling center is seeing...
Study Abroad Session Summary September ’21
Stephen Shewmaker, Director of the Study Abroad Office, shared some valuable insights about studying abroad in general and specifically, ACU’s Study Abroad program. In Milton Bennett’s Cultural Competency Model one strives to move from an ethnocentric view to...
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