Assessments: Rethinking Quizzes and Tests

“We have such an opportunity to use our classrooms as experimental places where we can really affect change.”  –Karen Cangialosi Hello, faculty! One topic that got more interest from our newsletter last semester was information on varying assessments. If you attended the Kahoot! session at the recent  New Approaches to Teaching and Learning conference, you…

Welcome back! Spring ’24

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” -G.K. Nielson Hello, faculty! Instructional Development is excited to continue sharing with you our newsletter, This Week in ID, now bi-monthly. Each newsletter (or Instructional Development site blog post) will include information based on a theme that coincides with the ebbs and…

Visual Course Design

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” –Steve Jobs Hello, faculty! With the semester ending in a few weeks, we thought a few resources about creating accessible and visually appealing course designs would be useful. As you begin designing your courses for next term, please do…