Mar 4, 2025

Randomizing Canvas Quizzes Using Item Banks

In Canvas quizzes you can have quiz questions selected randomly from a larger bank of questions. There are several benefits to this approach and a few things to carefully consider.

Mar 4, 2025

Understanding Canvas Quiz Logs

The primary purpose of quiz logs is to assist in investigating any issues students may encounter during their quizzes. They capture various actions and timestamps throughout the quiz attempt.

Mar 3, 2025

Designing Assessments that Leverage GenAI

GenAI has made its impact on every field and discipline. To help prepare our students for life post-graduation, instructors will have to consider how to help their students leverage GenAI tools.

Mar 1, 2025

A Teaching Tool: The EDI Flower

The EDI Flower Design Tool is a comprehensive framework aimed at fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) for USask classrooms. This overview highlights the EDI Flower’s principles and provides suggestions for resources to integrate EDI into teaching and learning practices.

Feb 28, 2025

Understanding Oral Exams

Learn how to use oral exams to confidently assess students’ foundational knowledge and skills.

Feb 28, 2025

AI Resistant Oral Assessment Tasks

Explore an array of oral assessment tasks that can help you better understand your students’ abilities without the aid of AI.

Feb 10, 2025

Empowering Education: Embracing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at USask

At USask, we aim to integrate Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) concepts into our teaching and learning environment, ensuring all students feel valued and supported. By embedding EDI principles, USask instructors can foster a culture of belonging and prepare students to thrive in a diverse world.

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.

Nov 15, 2024

Progressing Your Program’s AI Strategy

We have been in a reactive phase of responding to AI where our focus has been on which uses of AI to permit in assessments. Now, two other areas need attention so we can shift into being proactive.

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 23, 2024

Reconciliation and Education

Using Indigenous knowledge to examine personal disposition can begin the conversation around Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation.

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.

Jul 2, 2024

Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom

It is important that instructors offer students opportunities to have difficult dialogues within the classroom and for instructors to guide them through in constructive ways.

Jun 28, 2024

High quality, respectful classroom dialogue

High-quality, respectful classroom dialogue can enhance student learning and understanding. How can you create an open, healthy, and inclusive learning environment?

Jun 24, 2024

Identifying Plagiarism

Learn about some common indicators of plagiarism while also noting other possible explanations.

Jun 1, 2024

Constructive Alignment

Applying the principles of constructive alignment helps you design your course and learning experiences purposefully.

May 7, 2024

SLEQ

Student Learning Experience Questionnaire

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.

Jun 14, 2023

Canvas New Quizzes – Adding Accommodations

If you need to provide students with quiz accommodations, it's important to know that adding accommodations in New Quizzes looks quite different than Classic Quizzes.

Feb 3, 2023

An Outcomes-Based Practice Continuum

This article will discuss a continuum of outcomes-based practices including referencing outcomes, assessing outcomes, and reporting student achievement on outcomes.

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.

Nov 25, 2022

Perusall or Discussion Boards

Learn about this tool and how it can be used in your class to make for a more active learning experience.

Oct 24, 2022

Assessing Outcomes versus Grading Assignments

Shift your focus from grading tasks to assessing outcomes. Learn how this approach fosters deeper learning and provides a more meaningful evaluation of student progress.

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.

May 3, 2021

Using Your Syllabus to Set the Tone for Class

Class syllabi are often the first look that students get of a class. Instructors can use it to map out the course, provide valuable information, and set the tone for the rest of the term.

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.