Fall 2020 Faculty Workshops

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LIT and WIT Online look forward to cross-disciplinary conversations and sharing in the workshops to start the fall 2020 term:

Contact Learning Innovation & Technology at lit@wit.edu for support getting your courses ready:

  • Accessible syllabus template and new accessibility features in your Bb course
  • Course copy, merge, and readiness checklist
  • Academic Technology Toolkit and time-saving strategies
  • Course pain points or areas you get a lot of student questions we may be able to help minimize

Use Gradescope to Save Time Grading

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What is Gradescope?

Gradescope is an online grading platform used to grade homework, quizzes, group projects, and exams. It reduces grading time, increases grading consistency, and provides statistical summary for every assignment. Gradescope helps you seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in-class. Save time grading and get a clear picture of how your students are doing. With Gradescope, students receive faster and more detailed feedback on their work, and instructors can see detailed assignment and question analytics.

Possible Uses

  • Gradescope supports variable-length assignments (problem sets & projects) and fixed-template assignments (worksheets, quizzes, exams, bubble Sheets similar to Scantron).
  • Grade paper-based, digital, and code/programming assignments in half the time.
  • Quick, flexible grading with the option of providing detailed feedback to students
  • Gain valuable insight on the progress of your students with rubric-level statistics.
  • Deliver Feedback instantly to students
  • Answer Groups & AI-assisted Grading. Grade groups of similar answers at once.

Attend a Wentworth Specific Workshop to Get Started

Sign In

First sign into either Blackboard Learn or Brightspace and launch Gradescope. This will ensure the correct role is assigned. Any subsequent login from the direct Gradescope url will provide the correct level of access. In Blackboard Learn you can access Gradescope through the Tools Menu. In Brightspace, you can access Gradescope by adding an existing activity and selecting external learning tools.

Resources

Please take a moment to view the following resources provided by Gradescope:

Contact lit@wit.edu for more information.

Fall 2020 Virtual Teaching & Learning Event

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fall 2020 virtual teaching and learning image with presenter headshots

Join us virtually for a half day teaching and learning event on September 4th from 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.  Wentworth faculty and staff will present best practices, share examples, tools and strategies that can be implemented for the upcoming Fall semester. Please note that event information and details will be shared in MyWentworth.

About the Event: This event will include concurrent sessions (presentations) offered across four tracks:

  • Teaching and Learning
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • Faculty Spotlights
  • Faculty Resources & Support
Presenters (listed in alphabetical order):
  • Christopher Brigham – Interdisciplinary Engineering
  • Aaron Carpenter – Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Memo Ergezer, Computer Science & Networking
  • Lizzie Falvey – Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Ron Frattura – Learning Innovation & Technology
  • Jody Gordon – Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Semere Habtemical, Applied Mathematics
  • John Haga – Applied Mathematics
  • Mel Henriksen – Applied Mathematics
  • Ella Howard – Humanities & Social Sciences
  • JoJo Jacobson – Center for Academic Excellence
  • Anuja Kamat – Civil Engineering
  • Ian Lapp, Office of the Provost
  • Joseph Martel-Foley – Office of the Provost
  • Maura Mulligan – Center for Wellness
  • Kelly Parrish – Office of the Provost
  • Adam Payne – Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Stephanie Pollard – Applied Mathematics
  • Nicole Price – Office of the President
  • Youssef Qranfal, Applied Mathematics
  • Juval Racelis- Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Pia Romano – Library
  • David Simpson – Interdisciplinary Engineering
  • Emma Smith Zbarsky – Applied Mathematics
  • Nasser Yari – Civil Engineering

August Faculty Workshops

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LIT and WIT Online look forward to cross-disciplinary conversations and sharing in the workshops to end the Summer 2020 term and begin preparations for fall:

Contact Learning Innovation & Technology at lit@wit.edu for support getting your courses ready:

  • Accessible syllabus template and new accessibility features in your Bb course
  • Course copy, merge, and readiness checklist
  • Academic Technology Toolkit and time-saving strategies
  • Course pain points or areas you get a lot of student questions we may be able to help minimize

What Does Asynchronous Really Mean? How Can It Help Me During COVID-19?

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The concept of class time is very different in asynchronous instruction. You’re probably used to thinking of teaching in 50 to 90-minute chunks, planning each session in detail on what you want your students to learn for the day. But, with asynchronous teaching, start thinking of your class as something that happens over the course of a week. Begin by thinking of activities your students can perform that align with your course goals and learning outcomes.

Want to help your students be more successful during this COVID-19? In this article of the Chronicle of Higher Education by Flower Darby, she discusses 5 low-tech examples of how to use asynchronous techniques to improve your online teaching. There is a large amount of creditable and reliable information out there – YouTube, TED Talks, articles, professional journals – that you can incorporate into your course without any heavy lifting.

If your finding yourself in endless one-on-one zoom sessions and emails answering individual questions, you’re to be congratulated, but it’s not sustainable – or healthy. Instead, aim for lots of posts using your LMS and communicating one-to-many. Each week provide your summary of the course materials and make them available on a specific day of the week, so your students know when its coming.

Lastly, hold your students accountable. We know all our students don’t do the required readings as we’d like them too, but, when you incorporate short pop quizzes worth points, students become more engaged.

Check out the 5 Tips. Contact lit@wit.edu for a course consult.