How Do You Encourage Learner Feedback in Your Classes? |
Feedback is essential to learning and when it’s thoughtfully applied in the classroom environment it can lead to a process of continuous improvement for both learners and faculty. Through grading, comments, critiques, and discussions you provide feedback to your learners. Through questions, regular check-ins, informal surveys, peer reviews, and SIEs learners can give you feedback on their experience.
We’d love to know how you encourage learner feedback throughout the semester. Have you implemented a process in your classroom that has been particularly effective? Tell us about it by completing this short survey.
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New Tool: Introducing
Qwickly for Attendance |
We're pleased to announce that Qwickly, an attendance tracking tool, is now available in Canvas. This streamlined solution allows faculty to easily take attendance that sync automatically to your Canvas gradebook. Qwickly can be accessed directly from your Canvas course Settings>Navigation menu. Instructions for using the tool are available on the ETLC website. For questions or support, contact ETLC at helpdesk@uah.edu.
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New federal Title II guidelines require captioning of all videos you use in your course or require learners to watch. Autocaptioning in Panopto has been turned on to begin to address the videos you create. Make sure all the videos in your course are stored in Panopto to have them captioned. Videos from YouTube or other sites should be close-captioned or not used.
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What Our Students Are Saying |
A sample of first year learners that completed the NSSE survey were asked how frequently they contributed to course discussions, asked other learners for help understanding course materials, explained course material to peers, and prepared for exams by working on course material with other learners as well. Fifty percent of those surveyed responded they frequently engaged in these behaviors. They earned a cumulative GPA a tenth of a point higher in their first year and were ranked on average 5% higher in their courses than those that did not. Creating a welcoming environment that fosters community and active learning in the classroom can improve exam performance in STEM fields.
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Friday, September 12th in LIB 111 - Come see ideas on how to responsibly integrate AI into your course that ETLC can help you do! Want to make sure you see these? Click on any of the events below to add that to your Google Calendar! Doing so on a laptop or desktop computer will prepopulate the invitation information!
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Every hour a different method for using AI will be demonstrated for 10–20 minutes, and then we will be available to discuss your potential use cases and how we can help make them happen for you.
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Have You Been Thinking About Doing CDR? |
On Friday, September 26th from 2–4 pm, instructional designers will be available online to help you get started with Course Design Review. Add this event to your Google calendar from a desktop computer and plan to stop by Salmon Library. Make a copy of this CDR worksheet and come to the workshop to start the CDR process with instructional design assistance.
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New McGraw Hill Integration Available in Canvas |
The newest McGraw Hill LTI 1.3 integration is available in Canvas. All legacy McGraw Hill integrations will be decommissioned at the end of the Fall 2025 semester. If you are not currently using the newest McGraw Hill content, you will need to migrate your materials to the newest version before Spring 2026. Need assistance with the migration? Contact your McGraw Hill representative or reach out to the McGraw Hill Support Center.
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Not only are you a font of wisdom on your subject matter, you are a key part in making our learners feel seen which in turn makes them more likely to stay and succeed. Check out how this psychology professor makes learners feel like individuals who have been seen in his large and small classes.
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