Assignments Essay Syllabus 
Faculty Focus
JULY 8, 2025
We recognize we need to update assignments to promote academic integrity in an AI age, yet many of us feel unprepared to do so. We can provide the guidance students want, embed analysis and evaluation into our assignments to get at that all-important critical thinking, and nudge students toward integrity. By embracing transparency.
Faculty Focus
JULY 8, 2025
We recognize we need to update assignments to promote academic integrity in an AI age, yet many of us feel unprepared to do so. We can provide the guidance students want, embed analysis and evaluation into our assignments to get at that all-important critical thinking, and nudge students toward integrity. By embracing transparency.
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Cal Matters
JUNE 26, 2025
Indeed, many students have taken the bait, if not to write entire essays, then certainly to draft an outline, refine their ideas or clean up their writing before submitting it. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2018
On Tuesday, April 24 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Can Alternative Assignments Effectively Assess Student Learning? Where there’s an alternative there must be a standard, so we started our chat creating a list of what those standard assignment are: exams, quizzes, essays, reports, lab manuals and the like.
Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2023
Classes don’t start and end according to an academic calendar, but begin when a student clicks “start course” and gets assigned a faculty member. On average, instructors are assigned 230 students at a time--a big change from the 20 or 30 I was used to at NYU and Stevens. Southern New Hampshire’s course completion rate is 90 percent.
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