Canvas – Extra Credit
You can give students extra credit in Canvas through a variety of options. Canvas does not have a default option, or a feature function to add extra credit. This tutorial shows four different options that can be used alone or…
Nathan Feemster
Instructional Designer | Blackboard Community Engagement GUI Administrator
Q&A on AI Text Detection
Are there any tools that can reliably detect if writing was created with artificial intelligence? No. No, There are no tools which can reliably detect AI-generated writing. This teaching tip covers the current state of automatic AI detection and where it falls short of being reliable, and illustrates why this trend will continue. More importantly, this teaching tip presents some methods in which faculty content experts can determine if writing has been created with AI.
Canvas New Quizzes are (SUPPORTED 2024)
The feature ‘New Quizzes’ is now unsupported by UAF CTL until major improvements are made to the feature by Instructure. Below is a video tutorial on moving any existing quiz materials to Canvas Classic quizzes.
Embodying the disillusioned learner
Disclaimer: Unless specifically defined, I use the word classroom to refer to any group learning space, digital or physical. I’m sitting in the back of my first face-to-face class in 2 years. My glasses fog up from my mask and…
Address burnout with grounding practices
Based on the current state of affairs, my dog is my closest friend; I don’t remember the smell of erasing a whiteboard; I’m in a loop of self-discovery and loss, and I’m wondering: is my introspection just me crawling into…
Reinvigorate online discussions with Hypothesis
Hypothesis is a collaborative annotation tool now available in all UAF Canvas courses. Hypothesis merges the tasks of reading and discussion through the act of annotation, allowing students to hold contextualized discussions and share their reading experience.
Innovating through repair
Turning inward as a community, sharing used resources and repairing as needed is an Alaskan way of life. Just as transfer sites are a physical manifestation of this, we can create and find places online that allow us to share and reuse discarded resources for teaching and learning.
Skeuomorphism – How to use it or lose it
Skeuomorphism is where an object in software mimics its real-world counterpart. Learning Management Systems are riddled with skeuomorphism and this affects your course structure. Embracing the strength of online courses as learning environments requires the intentional use of skeuomorphism and modern web design.
Why do I need to sign in at CTL faculty development events?
Providing faculty development that is current and useful requires understanding the needs of instructors at UAF. When you reserve a seat, sign in to an event or book a designer consultation, you are relating your email address to that activity.
Three tips for semester startup
At UAF CTL, we are focused on creating win-win scenarios for new-to-online instructors and students. This article is focused on creating that win-win scenario from the start using Blackboard.