By: Cecile Janssens I ask students to submit a question about the required reading materials before class (as a small assignment that counts towards grading). During class, I use these questions to guide conversations. Instead of asking if anyone has a question, I know they all had one, and I select the most relevant/informative for…
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Zoom Breakout Rooms
By: Lisa Dillman Zoom has a setting where you can control how long students are giving to return from a Breakout Room. The default is 1 minute. For some of us, e.g. teaching language, it’s useful to have students in pairs/groups for just 2-3 min for a very discrete-point activity, and thus 1 min to…
Assignments with Zoom
My class had a semester-long project. When we went remote I asked the students to use Zoom to record their group meetings and submit them as an assignment. These meetings were great to watch. I could see the group dynamics and how the student’s class discussed their ideas. It was also great to see them…
Remove Times For Final Exams
Due to the pandemic, I wanted to remove the pressure of a traditional timed final exam and replaced it with a project that allowed students to creatively demonstrate what they learned over the course of the semester. I gave them some parameters (e.g. the project must include topics X, Y, and Z, must have a…