Jan 17, 2025

Assessing Student Reflections

Reflection bridges theory and practice, fostering growth through meaningful insights. Explore strategies, tools, and frameworks to assess reflective learning effectively.

Oct 16, 2024

Embracing Authentic Assessment in Higher Education

Authentic assessment in higher ed reveals critical challenges: power dynamics, cognitive overload, mentor training gaps, and ethical risks. Thoughtful design can balance these issues, enriching real-world learning and career readiness.

Sep 17, 2024

Canvas New Analytics

Learn how to use Canvas New Analytics to see how students are doing in your course

Aug 8, 2024

Ask, Find Out, Act: The Benefits of Inquiry-based Learning

Inquiry-based learning sparks curiosity by encouraging students to ask questions, explore answers, and actively engage with content, leading to deeper understanding and meaningful learning experiences. Read this excerpt of a blogpost by Dr. Lee Beavington at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), reposted with permission.

Feb 28, 2024

The Life-Giving Role of Field Work in Biology Courses

Explore how hands-on fieldwork in biology courses breathes life into learning, fostering deeper understanding and engagement with the natural world. Discover the transformative power of outdoor education!

Jan 16, 2024

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Classroom

Discover GMCTL’s EDI Flower, a resource to help you cultivate a learning environment where all students thrive. Explore essential competencies from positionality to assessment, designed to enhance your teaching and foster equity, diversity, and inclusion in your classroom.

Dec 13, 2023

Gamifying Learning Experiences

Discover how gamification can transform your teaching! Learn strategies to engage students and enhance learning through game-like experiences.

Aug 16, 2023

Inbox Assignment

Transform your teaching with Inbox Assignments! Engage students and boost learning outcomes through real-world email scenarios. Explore this innovative approach now.

Jan 13, 2023

Defining Authentic Assessment

Authentic assessment emphasizes real-world application of skills and knowledge. Learn how it enhances student engagement and aligns with meaningful learning outcomes.

Oct 11, 2022

Experiential Learning - Top 5 Resources

If you’re wondering how to enhance your experiential learning practices and make meaningful connections with learners’ knowledge and experiences, here are five valuable resources to support experiential learning. Discover rubrics, learning modules, reflection models, and prompting questions.

Sep 19, 2022

Give Efficient Feedback

Learn the most important things to give feedback about in your classes, and how to make feedback highly efficient.

Sep 2, 2022

Grading Reflection

Reflect on grading practices to enhance student learning and equity. Discover how thoughtful assessment can drive better educational outcomes. How can you determine if someone’s reflection is good enough, and how can you signal that to students so they reflect well and understand the feedback and grades they receive?

Jun 1, 2022

Administering Written Exams via Canvas

Canvas can be used for replicating a “take-home” style of exam in a digital setting. Learn when to use this approach, and how to set it up for a smooth launch at exam time.

Oct 22, 2021

USask spaces that flex with the type of learning

Flexible classrooms have three key characteristics and are effectively across all parts of the learning process including receiving information, practicing, and getting feedback.

Aug 4, 2021

Keep recording when you present content

The shift to remote instruction during the pandemic proved that there is value to recording your lectures. This article dives into why this practice still holds value and how to do it.

Nov 8, 2020

How Canvas Tools Can Enable Connection

Using Canvas to help create authentic connections through asynchronous and synchronous activities such as discussions and live collaborations.

Nov 5, 2020

Managing and Facilitating Discussions in Canvas

Once you’ve settled on the why and how of discussions in your course and have set up the initial discussion and guidelines for posting, let students know your plan for how you will be moderating the posts.

Sep 15, 2020

Using Authentic Assessment to Integrate Current Events Into Courses

Using authentic assessments to look at current events through the lens of your discipline can increase student engagement and reduce issues around academic integrity. Such assessments provide students opportunities to apply what they've learned in a context similar to how they'll use that knowledge beyond their university years.

May 25, 2020

Online Sharing Circle

This article was shared by Dr. Rose Roberts during the pandemic and our need for remote instruction and remote workplaces to share how we might create community by modelling the Indigenous practice of a Sharing Circle. The purpose, process, roles and responsibilities can be easily transferred to our current classrooms and workplaces today as a way to create and build online community.

May 22, 2020

Lecture Videos: Keep Them Short

When using Panopto to record lectures and slides, it is important to make multiple short videos rather than one long video.

Mar 17, 2020

Panopto or Narrated PowerPoint

What are the advantages of using Panopto instead of recording your slides in PowerPoint? Learn how to use Panopto to enhance learning.

Feb 28, 2020

Feeding Learning: Mark better work in less time

USask Learning Charter tells us - “Provide prompt and constructive feedback for students on their learning progress at regular intervals throughout the course.” What does that actually mean, and why does it matter?

Jan 21, 2020

Student Voice and Choice: Co-Creating Choice Boards

Co-creating a list of potential assessments with students is a great opportunity to increase student voice and choice. Students who choose assessments that are personally relevant are more likely to be motivated, engaged, and take ownership of their learning.