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The grade center is very customizable. Instructors can select which grades are displayed to students on their My Grades page, supply feedback to the students, create weighted columns and exclude certain assessments from final score calculations. Faculty can create grade columns for any activities or requirements they want to score such as projects, class participation or attendance. Data in the grade center is archived each week and can be retrieved from backup.

Students can benefit from seeing achievements or instructor feedback and, if necessary, adjust their approach to learning to improve performance.

Topics in this Quick Hit Session:

• Creating a Manual Column in the Grade Center
• Manually Enter Grades
• Column Organization
• Weighted Total Setup

This Quick Hit session will focus on how to create an interactive rubric and how to apply and use it with a Blackboard assignment.

Throughout the semester, the iSchool FCTL will host Quick Hits – 15 minutes sessions.  These sessions will be held in HH206F with an 8 people maximum in attendance.  Session time:  12:00 – 12:15 pm

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Part 3: Backward Design, Finally Blackboard
This is part 3 of our Assessment Series, moving from creating rubrics to designing classroom activities and assignments to to creating interactive rubrics in Blackboard. All are invited! Please come even if you did not have the opportunity to attend Part 1: Rubrics. or Part 2: Imagine Your Classroom. In this session, we will cover Interactive Rubrics in Blackboard: What they are, how to set them up, and how to grade using them. This will be an interactive learning session. Please bring with you a laptop and examples of ways that you currently assess your students using rubrics.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm in the Katzer Collaboratory

Intended Audience: All Syracuse University Full time, Adjunct and Ph.D. Face-to-Face and Online Faculty.

Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Group Learning Techniques.

The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning presents an ICE Box talk with Associate Professor Bei Yu.

In this talk Professor Yu will introduce several groupwork techniques, such as how to form groups, prime group members on good collaboration behavior, and lead combined individual/group exercises through Blackboard discussion forums.

All are welcome to attend this open session. No registration is necessary.

Monday, April 10, 2017

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm in the IceBox, 2nd floor of Hinds Hall – iSchool

Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

IF YOU NEED AN ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO FULLY PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT, PLEASE LET US KNOW IN THE CONTACT US AREA OF OUR WEBSITE. PLEASE GIVE US 1-2 WEEKS BEFORE THIS EVENT OCCURS.

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The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning presents Ingrid Erickson, Assistant Professor at the iSchool: Giving Voice in A Loud World: Using Video to Support Individual Reflection and Peer Exchange

FlipGrid is a online space for group interaction that allows students to create brief video diaries and share them with one another. Not only does this promote the value of thoughtful reflection at the individual level, it also enables sociality and peer learning at the group level. And it’s fun! Come and find out more.

Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

Intended Audience: All Syracuse University Full time, Adjunct and Ph.D. Face-to-Face and Online Faculty.

The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the iSchool looks forward to having you join us.

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This session will consider the purpose of measuring student engagement. We will identify which activities not only engage students but also produce quality analysis, which is critical to designing and adapting both online and face-to-face courses.

Some of the questions that we will show you how to answer are:

• When are students logging into my course?
• Which course resources/tools are being used most frequently?
• Which discussions boards generate the most traffic?
• What are the patterns of performance in an online assessment?
• What are some of my opportunities for improvement?

Intended Audience: All Syracuse University Full time, Adjunct and Ph.D. Face-to-Face and Online Faculty.

Light refreshments and snacks will be served.