Moderate in New Quizzes

I need to add some time accommodations for a student in New Quizzes.  When I go to moderate, I do not see anything:  This is a live class with students enrolled; the quiz is published...

Immediate feedback as students take a quiz

I would like to set up a quiz or survey where students see feedback as they answer questions. My plan is to deliver one question at a time and offer students guidance about revising their writing bas...

Teacher Tools

I love the discontinued Android App teacher Tools. I still use it on my phone and sometimes with the Android emulator BlueStacks on my laptop. That is, I used it until a few days ago. On both my phon...

Rubrics?

So after a long winter's nap, we have started the spring term. Now, when I grade assignments with a rubric, the rubric is HUGE because it is showing the detailed text for each criterion. This is new ...

"The Future of Plagiarism Detection" Follow Up (Turnitin)

Thanks to everyone who attended  "The Future of Plagiarism Detection" at InstructureCon 2017. Bill and I felt good about the presentation and hope the audience did as well. For those who aske...

Stopping Intra-Class Academic Dishonesty via Discussions

A dedicated minority of  students will always try to take shortcuts no matter what an instructor does, but some of the more cautious cheaters avoid plagiarizing on major assignments like pa...

Hack night?

I see "hack night" on the schedule. In past years, there has been a hack night for programmers and a "course hack night" for non programmers. Will that continue thIs year?  By the way, I full...

Canvas and Perusall

What is Perusall? Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Canvas via LTI assignments. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup .pdf documents. Inste...

Hoedowns, Bulls, and Boots

This video is currently being processed. Please try again in a few minutes. (view in My Videos)  @Renee_Carney ​ and I had a bet: If she could ride the bull for the traditional eight-...

Heroes Among US

I am pretty sure I have found the star of this film this morning at Instructurecon:

Selector buttons on quiz questions

Does anyone else find that the score selector buttons get in the way and interfere with your ability to see how the question is scored in the speedgrader, especially with double digit questions? W...

Paper Pumpkin: Online Video Presentations

As a student, I gave many presentations in class. I hated standing in the front of the class. I hated the unrevisable nature of a live presentation. Sure, I understand that live presentations have th...

Cinco pequeñas cosas (Five Little Things)

Here are some things I do to get the semester off to a less chaotic start. I introduce myself to my students: https://www.softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/UCR7wvSXeK13Ix/html​. I strive to have dir...

Due Dates in online classes

I have always distributed due dates in online classes across the week. For instance, I might have something due on Monday, something due on Wednesday, and something due on Friday. My theory has alway...

Canvas and Turnitin

Introduction Turnitin is well known for plagiarism and integrates with Canvas when an institution purchases a Trurnitin subscription. Many instructors rely on Turnitin.com services for plagiarism ...

Publish and Unpublish Announcements

I love that Canvas can bring over announcements when I copy content from another Canvas course. This keeps me from copying and pasting announcements I make every semester.  To further develop th...