Holiday Schedule As we approach the end of Fall semester, please note some small changes to CEETE’s hours. We are OPEN during finals week Monday, December 17 through Friday, December 21 from 10 a.m. – …
Power in Numbers: A recap of Talithia Williams’ keynote at the 2018 Diversity Forum
The annual UW-Madison Diversity Forum was October 31 and November 1 last week at Union South. Talithia Williams, professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in California, gave an excellent keynote presentation titled “Power in …
Filling your course with reflection: An InstructureCon Presentation Recap
In July I attended InstructureCon, the convention about Canvas. It was an enlightening 3 days of discussions about Canvas features and instructional design. A session I particularly enjoyed was David Lyons’ “House of Mirrors: Filling …
Fall 2018 Canvas Updates
Non-scoring rubrics There are a variety of ways to use rubrics to give feedback to students. If you use rubrics for grading, you’re likely familiar with the steps to add a rubric to an assignment …
What’s new in Canvas? Summer 2018 Update
Canvas updates every 3 weeks, sometimes with small changes and sometimes with big ones. These are the changes most relevant to our Engineering faculty and instructors: The rubric importer Make to-do items more prominent with Dashboard …
Make it Stick: A College of Engineering Guest Lecture Recap
On April 16, 2018, Peter C. Brown, co-author of Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, visited the College of Engineering for a day of workshops and presentations. Brown shared “3 Big Ideas About …
Top 10 Course Navigation Tips in Canvas
It’s lovely to wander around the lake this time of year. It’s less lovely to wander aimlessly around a course site. If you haven’t already, take a few minutes now to consider your Canvas course …
Supporting Students in the Peer Review Process
If you have students review and comment on each other’s work, you may want to use the Canvas peer review feature. This post briefly explains the process and includes links to resources that can help …
New Instructor Roles in Canvas
Summer course shells are now available in Canvas, and with them come three new instructor roles that take the place of the Teacher role: Principal Instructor, Supervisory Instructor, and Auxiliary Instructor. In this post we’ll …
Canvas Gradebook Update – January 2017
The next phase of the new Canvas Gradebook is complete! For a thorough description and demonstration of the new Gradebook, please refer to my previous blog post from November 2017. The November update included improved …