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InstructureCon 2025: Ryan Lufkin, Vice President of Global Academic Strategy, Brings the Skinny

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This session explores how a small liberal arts institution has successfully repurposed Canvas for faculty onboarding, professional development, syllabus archiving, student organizations, and institutional assessmentall without additional costs.

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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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College officials from four large public universities share their trials and tribulations with using these tools, and offer a glimpse of how predictive analytics can be used properly to boost learning outcomes for low-income students.

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

Faculty Focus

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. While I believed I was a capable adjunct professor, this experience has shown me how much I had yet to learn about the art of teaching.

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

Faculty Focus

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. While I believed I was a capable adjunct professor, this experience has shown me how much I had yet to learn about the art of teaching.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

Faculty Focus

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. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning.

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Coachin’ in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

Next, I drafted a one-page syllabus (Figure 1) that included my contact information, a course description, student learning outcomes, those same discovery questions (above), recommended texts, a preliminary course schedule, and an abbreviated outline of the course content. What could they contribute to their own success?

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

Faculty Focus

If you are like most of those with whom I work, you spend hours identifying the desired learning outcomes, essential understandings and skills, and appropriate materials. This then leads to countless hours of designing assessments and learning experiences. This is critical work. Analyze your course policies (i.e.,

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