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Best Practices for Securing Your Online Classrooms

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It also involves logging in to digital platforms to attend live classes, view and submit assignments and connect with peers. For many students, it requires using a school-issued device to continue learning from home. This new learning environment is certainly necessary during the pandemic.

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Ensure Your District is Data Ready with this Free Playbook

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data catalog) Assign data stewards to draft and manage data processes and workflows Define a governing strategy or protocol to support decision making around emerging case data needs, including security and access Adopt data processes and workflows that support the implementation of data interoperability projects.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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In a recent staff editorial in the Daily Illini, the student paper at the University of Illinois, students made a forceful case calling for professors to design better assignments and tests instead of turning to surveillance tools. Students on other campuses agree.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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Student reflection assignments have been shown to produce cathartic effects on academic performance and even health. When confidentiality is assured, students are often willing to deeply unpack the very unique ways in which they navigate their lives both generally, and in the context of the class that requested the assignment.

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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne.

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Top PDF Editors Among Educators

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Students can submit assignments digitally despite differences between their home platform and school (say, they use MS Office at home and Google Apps at school). It also enables users to add annotations, comments, and highlights, making it convenient for collaborative work and providing feedback on student assignments.

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

These had to do with confidentiality, authenticity, reliability, exploration, and safety. With respect to confidentiality, we agreed to hold what happened in the classroom in confidence. Students were assigned to familiarize themselves with the course description, student learning outcomes [SLOs], and course content (i.e.,

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