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Dear LMU Faculty,
Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter on Education Technology, Digital Pedagogy, and Instructional Design, brought to you by LMU’s Instructional Technologists.
ITS is committed to advancing digital literacy at LMU, and our team is here to support faculty directly. Because live workshops can be hard to attend, we are providing resources, tips, and insights in this on-demand format.
Six times a year, you’ll receive a timely roundup of tools, strategies, and recommendations to enhance your teaching. This October edition focuses on Assessment and Feedback.
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Providing students with meaningful feedback in a timely manner can significantly impact their success throughout the semester. In this month’s focus on Assessment and Feedback, we share strategies to help you streamline grading and support progress toward your learning goals, including:
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- Using frequent low-stakes assessments to check for understanding
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Apply rubrics to set clear expectations and guide evaluation
- Leverage Brightspace's Grade Book and Class Progress tools to track performance and provide reliable feedback
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Backward design begins with the end in mind. Define what you want students to learn, decide how you’ll measure it, and share those expectations. From there, you can structure your course and choose the right tools to support success. Learn more in Every Learner Everywhere’s case study: "From Finish to Start: Backward Design for Student Success."
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| Universal Design for Learning |
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a practical framework that empowers students to take greater control over their learning. It emphasizes progress over perfection, offering research-based guidelines for teaching. According to CAST's recommendations, UDL promotes feedback that is explicit, timely, informative, accessible, and customizable.
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Quizzes can be more than assessments. They can be powerful learning tools. This two-minute video demonstrates how to transform both graded and practice quizzes into meaningful learning opportunities that reinforce student understanding.
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Want to make grading easier and provide clearer feedback? This beginner-friendly video shows how to create and use rubrics in Brightspace. Learn how to attach rubrics to assignments, discussions, and quizzes. See how they can save time, improve consistency, and support fair grading.
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Written feedback provides students with more than just a score. It helps them grow. This four-minute video demonstrates how to pair rubrics with Brightspace’s feedback features, enabling students to learn and improve through their assessments.
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Looking for a flexible approach to providing in-line feedback? Brightspace’s Annotation Tool lets you highlight, comment, and draw directly on student submissions. This six-minute video shows how to mark up essays, projects, and problem sets, save drafts, and publish your feedback to students.
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Workshops and Training Opportunities
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Providing Feedback in Brightspace |
Register today for the Instructional Technology team's workshop on Wednesday, October 22, which focuses on providing meaningful and equitable feedback. Learn how to align your feedback with learning objectives, explore technology tools that support the process, and practice applying these methods to your own assignments and projects.
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| Inclusive Learning Design |
As a reminder, LMU faculty have access to LinkedIn Learning. The Inclusive Learning Design course emphasizes the importance of accessibility and inclusion in teaching. Through real examples, you’ll learn how to design with inclusion in mind, spot learning gaps, and support the needs of all your students.
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This fall, LMU is piloting two software tools to support teaching and learning. Gradescope streamlines grading and makes annotated feedback easier to deliver, while Panorama improves accessibility and supports Universal Design for Learning. Submit a ticket to join the pilot.
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Gradescope is a very helpful and impactful resource for providing consistent, meaningful, and detailed feedback to students. This level of feedback would take significantly more time to deliver in other grading software packages I have previously used. I find that I can spend less time grading and at the same time provide better and more detailed feedback to help students learn." –– Rachel G. Adams, Ph.D., Interim Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Contact the ITS Service Desk |
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Westchester and Playa Vista |
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Loyola Marymount University 1 LMU Drive, University Hall, Suite 2800 | Los Angeles, CA 90045 US
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