Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

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. Step 1: Take a critical look at your current syllabus. By embracing transparency. Let’s detail our expectations for responsible AI use.

Critical Thinking 127

Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 127

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

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. Step 1: Take a critical look at your current syllabus. By embracing transparency. Let’s detail our expectations for responsible AI use.

Critical Thinking 98

Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Regardless of your schools academic integrity policy, consider how a statement like the one below in your syllabus (Frontier, 2025) could clarify the importance of integrity as the basis for your partnership to effectively teach and learn. Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. Tes Magazine.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, at the beginning of a tutoring session, the tutor could ask students to review the assignment directions and the instructor’s syllabus. The conversation could go like this: “Let’s log on to the LMS and see if your professor said anything about ChatGPT in the syllabus or assignment directions.” How will you teach them?

Syllabus 124

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For example, at the beginning of a tutoring session, the tutor could ask students to review the assignment directions and the instructor’s syllabus. The conversation could go like this: “Let’s log on to the LMS and see if your professor said anything about ChatGPT in the syllabus or assignment directions.” How will you teach them?

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Performance assessment varies, with students submitting essays, videos or presentations to demonstrate they’ve learned the material. In a dramatic departure from convention, grading is not performed by instructors or TA’s, but by “evaluators,” experts who don’t interact with students directly. Course completion at WGU is 86 percent.

Teaching 171

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 171

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Five strategies to foster sense of belonging Be caring and authentic: Syllabus policies and language, as well as introductory comments on the first day of class, set the tone for an entire term. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132