Your Guide to Administering Tests and Quizzes in WebAssign

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDo you have to quickly develop a strategy to test your students in a virtual environment? We have your back!  WebAssign features a wide range of testing restrictions that allow you to create an assessment or turn any assignment into a quiz, test or even high stakes exam. Keep reading to learn how to create […]

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How Do You Feel About Online Learning Tools? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteKatie Montgomery is the Executive Manager of Marketing Content at Cengage. She’s got a passion for animal rescue and loves providing content to help make teaching life a little easier for faculty.   When it comes to the concept of teaching with online learning tools, every college instructor has a different comfort level. Some only […]

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How Do you Kick Start MindTap in Your Course?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesMindTap has a wealth of content to enhance your course, and several effective ways that you can tailor your approach on setting it up at the start of the semester. The challenge for most instructors is where to begin. This is particularly true if you’re an instructor using MindTap for the first time and introducing […]

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Getting Students Ready for MindTap in an Online Course

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA lot of effort goes into planning an online course, so it is crucial that students are able to jump right in and quickly access their course content and resources. Melissa Erskine is a Professor of English at Blinn College who has recently started using MindTap after years of experience with iLrn. Her experiences have […]

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Taking Advantage of Your Students’ Smartphones

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Machiavelli W. Chao, Lecturer Continuing, The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine Many, many years ago, when I was an undergraduate student, the drill was pretty standard: I sat in a classroom for lectures, did my written homework and physically handed it to a TA. And, if I had […]

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Choosing Assessments That Allow All Students to Succeed

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Dr. Jenny Billings, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College  I’ve written and spoken a great deal on a process for creating goals and objectives to help measure course performance. This year, I think it’s important we talk about student success from the student perspective. As an instructor, I always want to make sure I’m reaching all of […]

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Three Steps to Becoming a Culturally Responsive Teacher

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAuthor: Essie Childers, Education Professor at Blinn College – Texas Let’s take a moment to step away from facts around student retention, building facilities, growing partnerships and enrollment numbers. Albeit, those topics are truly important and can be found on any college or university’s agenda. What about adding to the agenda expected classroom experiences to […]

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Making Noise with Mobile Learning

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Joseph Ferrantelli, Ed. D., Wagner College I spent 26 years working in one of the largest school systems in the world. Near the latter part of that time, there was a push to use technology in the classroom. So, the school system spent millions on installing interactive boards in every classroom. Early Resistance But […]

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