eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a teacher who strives to help students uncover their interests and stretch their imaginations, I wanted to ensure they were participating in this new technology. Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus.

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English Syllabus Assignments Intelligence 333

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus.

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Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus.

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Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Planners that break down assignments, scaffolded note-taking templates, or even a syllabus can make all the difference in setting clear expectations. Equally, because many students with dyslexia grapple with executive function skills, it’s helpful to offer tools that support organization.

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Reading Syllabus Learning Intelligence 300

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It’s back to school season, and these teachers are excited. For the past few years, teachers have been sparing the printer and turning them into infographic syllabi. This year, though, San Diego English teacher Jen Roberts challenged herself to turn a fellow teacher’s creation into a collaborative, sharable template. “I

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Syllabus Teachers Course Outline English 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

One significant development is collaborative e-learning, which integrates social interactions among peers and teachers. From podcasts, YouTube captions, personalized learning dashboards, and social annotation, teachers now have a variety of e-learning methods at their disposal.

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Learning Syllabus Universal Design Quizzes 300

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If they don’t receive feedback from the teacher saying otherwise, or if they receive one short “good job” post to a comment, they tend to start thinking of their contributions as individual notes to the teacher, instead of as contributions to a whole-classroom discussion. This models what we’d like students to do.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As a graduate student and teacher, I’m only known to my students from the collarbones up, so everything within the camera frame is appropriate, clean, and gives off that put-together vibe. Students and teachers are lonely, isolated, depressed. My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped.

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Teachers Syllabus Schools Students 213

eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2020

That means educators of all types, including tutors, teachers, private language instructors, or parents homeschooling their children, can take advantage of the following resources for free until July 31: Their vocabulary learning tool, powered by a spaced-repetition algorithm. Available only in certain language pairs.

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Languages Language Learning Tools Syllabus 195

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Instead of handing students a syllabus with a set of class rules, engage your students in the process of co-constructing classroom agreements about behaviors. The urgency of an assignment or task may make it feel important when it actually is not. So, how do we help students make responsible decisions?

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Learning Syllabus Evaluation Discussions 370

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Yet, by 1979, nine million children were watching the show , and kindergarten teachers had to upgrade their curricula because children were showing up knowing their ABCs and numbers and eager to learn more. If you are a classroom educator, you might consider adding a note in your syllabus about the appropriate use of AI tools (example here ).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 335

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.

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Assignments Exams Learning Instructors 95

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

Their middle school benefits from stable funding, high-quality teachers, and a strong IT department, all leading to discussions about AI in their sixth grade classrooms. Students reported feeling more prepared and reflective before reading a single assigned text. The results were eye-opening.

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English Syllabus Ethics Students 149

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I like being able to see when assignments are due, as it helps me recognize the need to block off time in my calendar for grading. I grew tired of uploading the syllabus as a file within our LMS, only to need to upload a new version every single semester. I would name it something like syllabus-BUSN114.pdf syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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Syllabus Mobile Devices Learning Assignments 134

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. There’s good and bad with these things,” Watkins adds.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Dropbox Paper or Google Docs : these mainstream collaborative word-processing tools let instructors invite students to collaborate on assignments or group work. This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. Introduce Social Annotation as a Means to Engage Writer, teacher, and Harvard Ph.D.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I recall one student who would wait until the night of the assignment deadline to dive into their schoolwork. All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. Don’t wait for an assignment notification to get started.

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Online Learning Instructors Coaching Mobile Devices 189

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. For example, Bruff teaches a statistics course where he uses an infographics assignment that he adapted from Sidneyeve Matrix, an associate professor at Queen’s University, in Canada. “In As scholars, we probably should do something like that.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

The following includes a few strategies and examples to ensure clarity: A clear, inclusive syllabus with a course calendar of class activities, routines, materials, links to rubrics, etc. Clear expectations for all assignments, homework, activities, etc. Wisner, 2022). A clear agenda for each class.

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Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 131

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. I shared something called “ Meet the Teacher.” So, I moved onto showing them the “About Your Instructor” icon in our LMS.

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Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. Color-coding provides a visual measure of the flow of assignments throughout the term.

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Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 112

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Did teachers know that students were reading them? Fast forward more than 25 years, and I’m the one in the teacher’s seat at a college on the Georgia coast. On the other hand, teachers and parents complained that the guides enabled students to skip reading the originals. Sometimes I wonder about those long-gone study guides.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I Introduce yourself as a scholar and teacher. A quick-guide on how to respond to microaggressions.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Teachers, with the beginning of the school year rapidly approaching, it’s time to give the students what they really want: Good edtech products. So often teachers force students to use tools that don't do what they claim, or that they just don't like. We all have that one teacher who seems to take months to grade even a single test.

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Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus Students 144

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Did teachers know that students were reading them? Fast forward more than 25 years, and I’m the one in the teacher’s seat at a college on the Georgia coast. On the other hand, teachers and parents complained that the guides enabled students to skip reading the originals. Sometimes I wonder about those long-gone study guides.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

In school, a sense of belonging refers to a general feeling of being accepted, respected, connected, and supported by one’s peers, teachers, and other staff. Flexible policies such as dropping the lowest quiz/assignment score and offering one free pass for a “no-questions-asked” due-date extension can reduce anxiety and logistical rigor.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Most teachers aren’t adept at matching colors, picking fonts and font sizes, and then laying everything out artistically. It’s much easier to use text with a few pictures tossed in and leave the artistry for the art teacher. Educators: Visit Canva for Education to get how-tos, lesson plans, and teacher-oriented advice.

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Syllabus Knowledge Achievement Math 171

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. Color-coding provides a visual measure of the flow of assignments throughout the term.

Syllabus 101

Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 101

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

As a long-time music teacher and instructional technology coach, modeling has been key to my work for over a decade. It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters. There were my guidelines.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. I shared something called “ Meet the Teacher.” So, I moved onto showing them the “About Your Instructor” icon in our LMS.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Implementing these strategies are not only beneficial for teachers, but they also have the power to ease additional challenges for students pursuing a post-secondary degree with a disability. Faculty should consider implementing these strategies during the design phase of their curriculum and syllabus. Cold or random call.

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Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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. Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? Hire better teachers instead.”

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Plagiarism Exams Confidentiality Testing 218

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

I reflected on my favorite teachers from kindergarten through graduate school. One-page syllabus On the first day of class, we reviewed their answers to the appreciative inquiry and discussed how we could be colleagues in this course. As a class we analyzed which assignment(s) might accomplish the most (i.e., SLOs) at once.

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Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 105

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s one of the most effective approaches for changing teacher practices,” Gorman says. “In Students may ask that assignments be due at 10 p.m. For example, near the beginning of the semester, Sedoc asks students what they hope to get out of his classes, trying to see how well their expectations match the syllabus.

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 196

Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

The following includes a few strategies and examples to ensure clarity: A clear, inclusive syllabus with a course calendar of class activities, routines, materials, links to rubrics, etc. Clear expectations for all assignments, homework, activities, etc. Wisner, 2022). A clear agenda for each class.

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Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 98