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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.
Annotation Assignment
If you have diagrams, charts, and other fillable document for students to fill as an assignment, you might want to consider using the annotation assignment tool. When creating your assignment, choose "online" for your submission type, and then "student annotation",...
How to create two calendar events for one discussion
If you intend to create a discussion with two dates, one for submitting initial posts and one for completing responses to others, you may want to create two calendar events to make them show up on student calendars. Often, as you might have noticed, what gets on the...
Turnitin Quick Check
If you have not turned on Turnitin for an assignment in Canvas, as shown here, but would like to check one paper retrospectively, you can use the Turnitin's "Quick Submit" function to check individual papers. Here is how to set it up: Go to Turnitin.com (not in...
Picture Display in Safari
If you use Safari, you may sometimes have an issue with the display of pictures, as shown below. Here is how to resolve it: Click on the Safari tab in Safari Choose "Preferences" Click on "Privacy" Uncheck "prevent cross-site tracking." Clear the cache (under the...
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...
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