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Concrete Applications to Teaching
Enhanced Gradebook
- Load rosters into Gradebook automatically
- Be able to weight grades and grade categories
- Upload/download spreadsheets
- Be able to tell which grades have been altered by whom
- Be able to annotate grades
- Graph grade statistics visually (primarily for students to view)
- Wider variety of roles: e.g., Head TA
- Seamless communication between Excel and Gradebook!
- Be able to copy Gradebook settings between quarters and classes
- Ability to drop lowest score
- Ability to add extra credit
- Handle numbers above 100% + (for extra credit)
- Toggling between percentage and points
- Flexible cut-offs for final grades
- Accessing dropped students' data
- Use the same wiki in several classes over the course of a few years to build one huge learning resource.
- Provide students with their grades
Enhanced Quizbuilder
- Provide feedback on incorrect answers
- Add images to quizzes
Student Pre-Labs
Online Course Evaluations
Wiki
- Working with grad student seminar on "collective journaling" in Sakai wiki
- Wiki as a way for students to teach and learn from one another without our having to monitor it.
- Develop comprehensive wikis full of useful information by continuing them from one quarter to the next, having students build on the previous class.
- Nutrition and Aging course: students collectively write the history of caloric ______. Point them in the right direction, make sure they are hitting the high points, and then turn it over to the second group, who will continue the history.
Pedagogy
- Encourage academic excellence by encouraging departments and instructors to embrace a new and revolutionary technology each year.
- Converting course functions (a.k.a grading papers) to the computer can save time and prevent the waste of paper.
- Embracing technology in the classroom effectively "Ups Your Cool Factor"
- Instead of teaching taking a distinctive path from left to right, online collaboration allows for a web or netting structure that is far more inclusive. This change in the way things are done promotes progress in academia.
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