The Emergency Pivot to Online Learning in Higher Ed [Infographic]

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe emergency pivot to online learning has impacted many campuses and created uncertainty for institutions across the country. To salvage the semester, 97% of institutions called upon faculty with no prior online teaching experience for some of their courses. Adapting curriculum on the fly, faculty were forced to adjust student expectations and explore new instructional […]

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Online Courses: Tips for Student Success in this “New Normal” Format

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDue to COVID-19, many, if not most, college students have been learning fully online, finishing out their semesters or courses from home and in front of the computer. Though the initial transition from on-campus classroom to virtual “classroom” has passed, there’s still a need to keep students motivated and on the path to success—especially as […]

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Engage Your Calculus Students with Explore Its

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you prepare your Calculus course for next semester, have you considered the ways you can use Explore Its to deeply engage your students? If you’d like to make your lectures interactive, or help students correlate concepts and application, consider using Explore Its into your Calculus course. What are Explore Its? Explore Its are interactive […]

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Engage Students in Developmental Math with WebAssign Tools

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEach year you and your students encounter new challenges – in and out of the classroom.  The Cengage team has been hard at work creating new question types and assignments to help you engage students in Developmental Math topics, on a deeper level. Continue reading to learn how to engage students with new question types available […]

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Tips for Students: How to Study with 5, 3, or 1 Day Until the Exam

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile creating a solid study plan that spans over several days is considered the best practice for exams, sometimes life happens, and students need to fit a week’s worth of studying into a few days, or even just one night. With that in mind, here are three study plans students can use no matter how […]

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WebAssign: Reschedule Assignments in 4 Steps or Less

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDue to the rapidly evolving environment causing disruptions to campus schedules, you may need to make quick changes to your class schedule. This article is designed to help you quickly adjust multiple existing due dates, or reschedule assignments relative to your class meeting time. Follow these 4 easy steps to reschedule assignments in WebAssign. Option 1: Reschedule Assignments by Days or Weeks  If your […]

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Tips for Students: Leadership Qualities — Staying On Target

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Reading Time: 2 minutesThough certain people may seem to have that je ne sais quoi that inspires others to follow their lead, the ingredients of true leadership aren’t really a mystery. Many people have researched and studied the qualities that leaders possess, and they have observed many commonalities. If your students are aspiring to take on a management or leadership […]

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