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Are There Ethical Concerns with Using Plagiarism Checkers?

Elyse 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...

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Contract Cheating: Understanding and Responding to Academic Dishonesty

Audrey 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...

Rubrics for Writing Assignments

Using Rubrics to Grade Writing Assignments

Audrey 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...

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How to Balance Student Trust and Online Exam Monitoring

David 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...

How to Spot Plagiarism

Checking for Plagiarism in Microsoft Word

Author: Corinne Hoisington, Professor of Information Systems Technology, Central Virginia Community College As instructors, we all have our fair share of student essays and papers to read. And yes, occasionally we...

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4 Tips for Managing Essay Grading

Audrey Wick is an English professor at Blinn College in central Texas I remember the bright-eyed enthusiasm with which I approached the process of essay grading for the first time as...

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How to Make Course Material Relevant: Tips from an Instructor

Janet Mizrahi is a continuing lecturer who teaches professional writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an author at BizCommBuzz. Those of us teaching in liberal arts colleges...

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How to Ensure Your Students are Keeping Up with Your Online Course

Elyse Adler is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology With the number of students enrolled in online learning increasing, it’s important that instructors understand the differences we face in keeping our...

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