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Sharing Microsoft 365 Skills With Digital Badging in MindTap Collections

Digital Badging is a digital credentialing system that has been around since the early 2000s. It was first used by Mozilla to recognize and reward users for their contributions to the open-source...

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8 Ways to Prevent Students From Cheating With AI

Academic integrity has been a fundamental aspect of higher education for years, but with the rise of AI tools comes new barriers for instructors to maintain it. The temptation for students to...

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Improving Support for Mac Users in Office 365

Post was updated 5/22/2025 Over the years we have seen more and more Mac users in our classes. As long as they followed along in our computer labs or on their own...

My Favorite MindTap Feature: Bongo for Speaking Assessments

Jennifer Rogers is the Foreign Language Coordinator and an instructor of Spanish at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, MO I am a longtime user of MindTap for World Languages. As...

Supporting Your World Language Students With Communication Activities in MindTap

Cybele Beckham is the marketing manager for World Languages at Cengage. She’s passionate about language learning and eager to give students the opportunity to practice their communication skills. Speaking is the...

My Favorite MindTap Feature: Late Policy Settings

Beth Ryan is an Associate Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago My favorite MindTap feature is the Late Policy setting in the gradebook. Let’s face it, college students have many...

My Favorite MindTap Feature: the SAM MindApp

Melinda Doty is a full-time faculty member at East Carolina University. My favorite MindTap feature is the SAM MindApp. SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) is a built-in program within MindTap. It allows students to...

My Favorite MindTap Feature: Diet Analysis MindApp

Updated: 9/21/2023 Tracy Daly is a professor at Cal State San Marcos, National University, Miramar College. As a dietitian and health educator, my favorite MindTap feature is the Diet & Wellness Plus...

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