5 Ideas for Virtual Office Hours Your Students Will Want to Attend

Ideas for Virtual Office Hours

Reading Time: 5 minutesShawn Orr is faculty in the Department of Communication Studies and the Director of the Center for Innovation and Teaching Excellence at Ashland University.   Virtual office hours. That phrase likely conjures up one of two images in your mind: (A) hours of boredom and clock watching while you wait in solitude for students to […]

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9 Quick Tips for Students Struggling with Time Management

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz.   Time management and its first cousin organization are my middle names. I was organizing disastrous drawers and catastrophic closets before Marie Kondo was born—and had plenty of time left over to […]

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4 Easy Strategies to Stay Productive in a Remote Setting

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Reading Time: 2 minutesStaying focused and productive on campus is difficult enough, but the prospect of either a hybrid or fully online semester facing many institutions this fall presents a whole new host of challenges. Maintaining productivity can become challenging when distractions abound at home—and escaping to the library or a café may not be an option for […]

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Cheating in College Courses: An Educator Weighs in on Prevention and Response

Managing Students Who Cheat

Reading Time: 4 minutesJanet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz.   I couldn’t believe my eyes. I’d graded the student’s work in other assignments, and I was 100 percent sure that what I was now reading was not his. I did a […]

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Professor Corinne Hoisington’s New Favorite Tool for Teaching Online

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAuthor: Corinne Hoisington, Professor of Information Systems Technology, Central Virginia Community College Sounds like most of us will be at times connecting remotely with our students and higher ed colleagues this fall. But, one of the big challenges is how to make these remote moments feel more like in-person classes, right? I have a great […]

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Culturally Responsive Teaching in an Online Environment

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Reading Time: 4 minutesEssie Childers is a professor of Student Success at Blinn College in Bryan, Texas   COVID-19 is prompting colleges and universities to prepare for the fall semester using a number of modalities of instruction—a vast majority of which will occur online or in a HyFlex model. As in the classroom, online students are diverse; representing […]

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Best Practices for Using WebAssign to Take Attendance

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Reading Time: 4 minutesTaking class attendance, especially in large or online course, is time-consuming and can be impossible if you don’t have the right tools to help. By using WebAssign for attendance, you can reduce or eliminate the time it requires to track who’s present in class—and empower students to take accountability. This semester, save yourself time and […]

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How to Collaborate with Instructors in WebAssign

Collaborate with Instructors in WebAssign

Reading Time: 6 minutesCollaboration is a valuable tool when navigating uncertainty, but it becomes much more challenging in online environments. WebAssign makes it easier and more efficient to work together from anywhere, with the ability to share courses, resources and valuable class data to maintain cohesion across your course or multiple sections.  Whether you’re a course administrator, professor […]

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