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is your gradebook ready for the end of the semester?

dec. 10, 2019—the end of the semester is coming up quickly! is your brightspace gradebook set up correctly? while you are certainly not required to use the brightspace grades tool to track your students’ grades, it can be a big help. especially if you are using brightspace to collect assignments or giving quizzes and exams. tips for...

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teaching innovations at vanderbilt: dana kan and low-stakes retrieval midterms

sep. 3, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern i love interviewing professors for this blog series; every time i do it, i learn something new. speaking with dr. dana kan, an assistant professor in the department of hearing and speech sciences at 瑞士vs喀麦隆走地 medical center, i learned that classroom acoustics constitute an important aspect of the...

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blackboard drop-in sessions to feature grade center

mar. 10, 2016—blackboard support continues to offer email, phone, and one-on-one consultations, or blackboard users can take advantage of our library of on-demand resources. drop-in support hours continue to be offered mondays from 1-3pm. if you missed our january sessions, we discussed grade column organization and inline grading. february spotlight topics are listed below, however you should feel free to bring your own questions and...

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blackboard drop-in sessions to feature grade center

feb. 5, 2016—blackboard support continues to offer email, phone, and one-on-one consultations, or blackboard users can take advantage of our library of on-demand resources. drop-in support hours continue to be offered mondays from 1-3pm. if you missed our january sessions, we discussed grade column organization and inline grading. february spotlight topics are listed below, however you should...

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last week’s “t.w.l.” conversation on teaching writing: “grading is teaching”

sep. 24, 2013—by nancy chick, cft assistant director scott juengel (english) talked about “managing the paper load:  grading writing efficiently and effectively” with approximately 30 faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students on september 18. this lunchtime gathering was the second in the “teaching. writing. learning.” series of conversations on teaching writing. although he’s been at vanderbilt...

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ask professor pedagogy: grading efficiently

apr. 19, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...

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ask professor pedagogy: assessment suggestions for large lecture classes

feb. 22, 2013—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...

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grading efficiently: finding the time to grade fairly

jan. 25, 2013—teaching affiliates john martin (graduate student, biomedical engineering) and killian quigley (graduate student, english) discuss the upcoming gradstep session: grading efficiently: finding the time to grade fairly.   held in january each year, gradstep provides several workshops and discussions on teaching, learning, and professional development issues across the disciplines.  registration and more details about gradstep are...

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ask professor pedagogy: a mountain of grading

nov. 30, 2012—ask professor pedagogy is a twice monthly advice column written by 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 staff. one aspect of our mission is to cultivate dialogue about teaching and learning, so we welcome questions and concerns that arise in the classroom; particularly those from vanderbilt faculty, students, and staff. if you have a question that you’d like...

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strategies for grading workshop: additional resources

sep. 13, 2012—cft graduate teaching fellow, beth koontz, offers additional resources on grading and assessing student work. the cft recently hosted a teaching workshop on effective and efficient grading focusing on the purposes of grading and how to grade in ways that help students learn more deeply and save time for the instructor. this post provides some...

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