Academic Affairs provides Syllabus templates, please take a moment to download the approved and accessible syllabus template to ensure your syllabus can be read anytime anywhere. These syllabus resources were designed for compatibility with the GROW practices, found with other Equity in Learning resources. Use them to get started with improving equity in learning in your classroom: […]
Continue reading →Use student feedback to inform instruction and promote learning! This article has ideas for different types of student feedback that you can evaluate for your own courses. If you find one you like, you can copy the instructions and questions and use them in your courses. After that, explore different ways of using the feedback, […]
Continue reading →Zoom has been the mainstay of many instructors’ toolkits during the pandemic. And although we are transitioning back to face-to-face classes, Zoom won’t be going away anytime soon. Zoom can be very useful for things like individual calls or virtual office hours. Zoom can also be used to bring outside speakers to your class. While […]
Continue reading →What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is the “submission or inclusion of someone else’s words, drawings, ideas, or data (including that from a website) as one’s own work without giving credit to the source” (from wit.edu website: Academic Honesty Policy). One common example of plagiarism in student papers is copying and pasting text from the Internet sources […]
Continue reading →Have you ever felt like Ben Stein in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Standing awkwardly in front of your silent class and staring at blank faces (or blank Zoom screens)? How can it be that no one besides you has any idea why the Smoot-Hawley Tariff was so terrible? What is it, national silence […]
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