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Student Self-Care Tips: How to Balance School, Work and Life

Posted on April 27, 2021 (November 22, 2023) by cengage

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLindsey Myers is a Mechanical Engineering major from New Mexico State University Since my early years in grade school, I’ve had to learn how to balance school and life. In elementary school, it was girl scouts’ meetings, piano lessons and gymnastics competitions. In middle and high school, it was National Honor Society, band and volleyball. Once I got to college, fun extra–curricular activities turned into part–time […]

Are There Ethical Concerns with Using Plagiarism Checkers?

Posted on April 21, 2021 (November 22, 2023) by cengage

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Reading Time: 2 minutesElyse Adler is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology Preventing and handling cheating is a topic instructors usually don’t like to deal with. Still, it must be considered and discussed pretty regularly. It is important that we establish exactly what constitutes cheating with our students, communicate the class/school policy with them and monitor their work […]

Teach Proof Development Skills with New Automatically Graded Problems

Posted on April 20, 2021 (May 1, 2024) by Kevin Hinsley

$Teach Proofs With Automatically Graded Problems$

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou want to teach proofs in your Math course, but it’s not as simple as a right or wrong answer. Writing proofs provides a way for students to show their reasoning skills and to construct logical arguments which, in addition to other problem-solving skills, are critical in STEM fields. Students often struggle with proofs, though, […]

Contract Cheating: Understanding and Responding to Academic Dishonesty

Posted on April 19, 2021 (November 22, 2023) by cengage

Reading Time: 2 minutesAudrey Wick is an English professor and Cengage Faculty Partner The paper didn’t pass the “smell test.” I had a student in class whose work and writing voice I knew, but his last paper of the semester didn’t seem like his own. The digital originality report didn’t detect any plagiarism, though. Still, language was […]

Ditching Paywalls with Inclusive Access [SUCCESS STORY]

Posted on April 16, 2021 (November 21, 2023) by Kevin Hinsley

How One Instructor Used Cengage Inclusive Access

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Inclusive Access model at Cengage integrates the cost of course materials directly through the campus bookstore or other preferred transactions. It also delivers content directly to an institution’s Learning Management System (LMS) or other preferred channel, so students are ready from day one. Some textbook materials and features require a payment to unlock. This was […]

5 Cengage Tools and Features You’ve Been Asking For

Posted on April 15, 2021 (November 21, 2023) by Kevin Hinsley

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.” -Mark Twain At Cengage, we’re always striving to create better products that save instructors and students time, money and headaches. We won’t always hit a new feature out of the park, but we’re committed to fixing what could be working better. That’s why we rely on customer feedback […]

Using Rubrics to Grade Writing Assignments

Posted on April 15, 2021 (November 22, 2023) by cengage

Reading Time: 2 minutesAudrey Wick is an English professor and Cengage Faculty Partner As an instructor, how do you get students to remember concepts you teach? If you are like most instructors, the answer is “any way I can!” Indeed, instructors use a variety of techniques to not only teach, but also to assess the learning process. […]

How to Balance Student Trust and Online Exam Monitoring

Posted on April 13, 2021 (November 22, 2023) by cengage

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDavid Ryan Polgar is a Tech Ethicist and Founder of All Tech Is Human “With great power comes great responsibility.” This popular maxim, well-known from the world of comic books, is central to the delicate balancing act educators face when teaching online. Removed from the physical setting of a classroom naturally monitored by a professor […]