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

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.

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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