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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.
Options to Allow Student Resubmissions
Student assignments should not be just a way to measure learning; it should improve learning as well. In this spirit, you may sometimes want to give students the option to resubmit assignments as a way to scaffold their improvement. Of course, if many students have to...
Teaching International Students
Post contributed by the Office of International Students and Visiting Scholars Do you have international students in your classes? If so, you have an amazing opportunity to impact all students in your classes as you model cultural humility and facilitate positive...
Using LinkedIn In Higher Ed
The Adams Center hosted a session about the use of LinkedIn. Over the past couple of years, the question of LinkedIn has come up periodically in the Adams Center. LinkedIn is often seen as a professional networking space for those in the business world or specifically...
Vaccine Roadshow: Covid Vaccines Explained
COVID-19 vaccines are now widely available for our students, faculty, and staff. Several of the scientists here on campus have formed a Vaccine Roadshow where they come in person or on Zoom to Chapels, department meetings, club meetings, and classes to answer...
Convert failed Zoom recordings
If your Zoom recording fails to turn into an mp4 file, you may see something like this in the recording folder. You can simply click on the "double_click..." file to convert it. It will change to a dialogue box asking you to save it to a path on your computer. Save...
Access Course Meetings Outside of Canvas
Both students and instructors can import their Canvas Calendar into their Google calendar so that all daily events appear in the same place. This is especially helpful if you have Zoom sessions scheduled and Canvas happens to have a load issue during the time of a...
Transparent Assessment Example
In the Adams Center, we have hosted multiple sessions extolling the virtues of "transparent assignments"; that is, assignments that make explicitly clear the purpose of an assignment along with the skills and tasks needed to successfully complete that assignment. This...
Enabling Closed Captioning on Zoom
You could now enable closed captioning on Zoom. To do so, log in to Zoom, go to "settings", and under "In Meeting (Advanced)," turn on closed captioning and "enable live transcription service...". You could also enable "save captions" for participants, or not. Once it...
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