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OCTOBER 9, 2015

CanaryFlow is a classroom workflow platform that makes it easy for K-12 teachers to create lessons, add and grade assignments, upload resources, comment on student work or class activities, and schedule events. Features for teachers include: ability to collect, grade, distribute and collect assignments and materials.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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JUNE 4, 2024

What was your biggest worry then, and how did the testing go? In fact, it's most valuable in a teaching setting because a teacher's in a class of 30, these kids are at all different levels. Well, if you had support from a teaching assistant who's also their tutor, that's kind of what Khan Academy has always aspired to be.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

However, there are certainly those who employ methods that put this perspective to the test. When we teach large classes, what approaches can we employ that will have a greater opportunity to engage students and help students learn more? You have to live your way into a new way of thinking.”

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Rebecca Stout remembers the time she got a call from Saudi Arabia at midnight from one of her online students looking for help on an assignment. It was just one example of how she—and many online instructors—feel like they must be always on call when they teach an online course. And then all the sudden we’re teaching online.

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JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

He pointed to a recent computer science class at Georgia Tech, where the professor had teaching assistants and a computer respond to student questions—without telling the students that they might be interacting with a machine. The bot, “Jill Watson,” passed the Turing test—students thought they were interacting with a human TA.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

CanaryFlow is a classroom workflow platform that makes it easy for K-12 teachers to create lessons, add and grade assignments, upload resources, comment on student work or class activities, and schedule events. Features include: ability to grade, distribute, and collect assignments and materials. CanaryLearning .

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot. Really what mattered where things that were graded, like quizzes and tests and assignments. How does that work?

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MAY 4, 2023

ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. And when 43 students finally arrived, Austin, along with two teaching assistants, led their organic chemistry lab. But what if instead the university brought remote students to the chemicals — and to campus?

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants. Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. Use assignments as feedback about how the material is landing with students. She recently received K-States 2023 Global Campus Excellence in Online Teaching Award in recognition for her teaching practices.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. Use assignments as feedback about how the material is landing with students. She recently received K-States 2023 Global Campus Excellence in Online Teaching Award in recognition for her teaching practices.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 95

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MARCH 4, 2025

To enhance interaction, instructors can assign mixed-location breakout groups where students collaborate via Zoom on case studies. This not only bridges the gap between campuses but also fosters teamwork and communication skills (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021).

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

To enhance interaction, instructors can assign mixed-location breakout groups where students collaborate via Zoom on case studies. This not only bridges the gap between campuses but also fosters teamwork and communication skills (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021).

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

In the genetics unit, students connect molecular genetics and biotechnology using an assignment where the students develop a biotechnology product and generate a print ad or video commercial. Presenting real-world scenarios, like infectious diseases or genetic testing, makes biology come alive.

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MARCH 11, 2025

In the genetics unit, students connect molecular genetics and biotechnology using an assignment where the students develop a biotechnology product and generate a print ad or video commercial. Presenting real-world scenarios, like infectious diseases or genetic testing, makes biology come alive.

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 64

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JULY 23, 2020

At a company demonstration this week, students from around the globe gathered virtually to test the program’s tools. They logged into a learning management system, which displays personal profile information, homework assignments and professor office hours. Instead, they describe it as “live-to-device” or “live remote” education.

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