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Your name, title, etc.: Olga Gerhart, Lecturer
The school/department you teach for: School of Liberal Arts, Philosophy Department
Discipline: Philosophy, Applied Ethics Focus
Class size: The are 3 sections combined into 99 students.
Tip #1: Grading
I teach one class with several different sections. Instead of keeping them in separate sections, I find it more efficient to grade them as one big group. The Speed Grader makes it really fast.
Tip #2: Discussions
Instead of assigning the Discussion prompt to separate sections, I go ahead and have all the sections participate in one big Discussion. This adds more variety to the Discussion, and there are plenty of people who “want to go first” in Discussion, so we are not waiting around for the deadline for people to post.
This is a lower-level class, so bigger Discussion groups seem to make people less hesitant to post.
Tip #3: Using rubrics in Discussions
Steps:
- Go to the Discussion Button in Navigation
- Click on the ellipses at the top
- Then click on “Show Rubric”
- Click on the pencil to edit
- Click on “Ok” when Canvas warns you about editing
- Then click the box called “Use this assignment for grading”
