October Professional Development Day: Submit Your Session Proposal Now
Our October Professional Development Day Fall Conference will take place this year on October 20. We will focus again on the Five Essential Questions of Teaching and Learning. In keeping with that theme, please think about what you are doing with or for students that...
Quick Reads
Many students come to college not understanding the unwritten rules for succeeding in college. This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education “The Unwritten Rules of College” discusses how considering three questions can make those rules more explicit for...
Book Review: Tools for Teaching
Need a quick shot in the arm or a whole new strategy? Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is just what the doctor ordered. Whether it be getting started with a course or a class, dealing with the change and diversity that are part and parcel of community college...
How Many Points is that Worth?
Instructors may hear this question from students regarding an assignment and how it will affect their grade. AND instructors may ask themselves the same question when entering scores into the grade book. You can direct students to your syllabus to answer their...
Extended Time for Quizzes
There are two ways to accommodate the need for extended times, User Overrides and applying the Student No Time Limit role. User Overrides Open your quiz. From the Administration menu, click on User Overrides. Click the Add user override button. Select...
Accommodations
Although it seems hard to believe, fall semester 2015 is in full swing. All summer I have been meeting with your new and returning students to collect their disability related paperwork and help them apply for accommodations. By now you may have received an...
A Quick Read from the EDUCAUSEreview
The following article, "From Accommodations to Accessibility: Creating Learning Environments That Work for All," is taken from the EDUCAUSEreview, and is an excellent read.
Things to Consider
Posting Handouts Online Don't scan in notes, articles, example text, etc. Scans are treated like images and cannot be read by assistive technology. Type up hand written notes. Provide a link to information/articles when possible. If using a piece of text from an email...
Use GotoMeeting? Please Read Important Information
Support changes for Mac OS 10.7 coming soon. Please read the latest news from Citrix below: Upgrade to the latest OS We’re always working to make our products better, and sometimes that means trading out support for an older browser or operating system so we can focus...
Lecture Capture: Relay Users Please Read!
We recently upgraded to the latest version of TechSmith Relay. When you record lectures in the classroom you may be prompted to perform an Update - please ignore this. There is no need to run the update in the classroom. If you have any questions or run into any...