Cheating!?
Contract cheating is a predatory service that provides students with access to test answers, plagiarized content, and other resources that may undermine student learning. What is an example of a contract cheating website?
What is:
Chegg
CourseHero
Many more!
This year we have covered a number of external tools in tech talks that can promote student engagement. For 100 points name one of the tools we have explored!
PollEverywhere
Jeopardy Labs
This tool allows you to quickly cycle through student assignments, grading and providing unique feedback as you go.
What is Speed Grader?
Cheating and academic integrity violations were on the rise pre-pandemic but have ballooned following and persisted to today. What is a common way that students might get connected to cheating in the first place?
Looking to hear about the connection to cheating as a vicious cycle and that many places are marketing cheating resources to students under the guise of usable material.
The Primacy-recency effect dictates that students will hit the functional limit of their working memory after about 10 minutes of material. Name an active learning activity that will allow for the necessary cognitive downtime while also reinforcing learning?
What is:
interactive polling & MCQs
Group discussion
If you are teaching the same course often, it is recommend you create one of theses to adjust and develop a course before copying it to your live course.
What is a template course?
These types of assessments or prompts are the most susceptible to cheating
What are Multiple Choice Questions or recall/retention prompts?
Authentic Assessment can be used to engaging & cheat resistant activities for your course. Jon Mueller defines authentic assessment as "A form of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of essential knowledge and skills". What might be an example of an authentic task?
What are:
Performative tasks?
Productive tasks?
Constructed tasks?
eLearning has shown off a couple of different ways to "hack" Canvas, like creating buttons, drop downs, dialog boxes, or formatting a homepage, that all utilized this specific Canvas tool.
What is the "html editor"
Respondus LockDown browser and monitor are tools that limit access to online resources and records student behavior during an online test. It was recently found to have a number of accessibility and equity concerns. Name a potential limitation of Respondus and other proctoring tools.
What is:
Facial recognition failing for dark skinned people
bandwidth concerns
increased anxiety
environmental privacy concerns
Canvas has several analytic tools that can support early student intervention, including the Student Access Report, and the Last Accessed Date in the People Tool. Name one deadline on the academic calendar that could be important when it comes to early intervention!
What is last day for:
100% refund deadline
50% refund deadline
last day to drop without W
last day to drop with a W
When designing grades and assignments in Canvas, you can either use a Points-based system or a Weighted system. Extra Credit options in Canvas are straightforward and easy in one grading scheme, but complicated and unintuitive in another. Which grading calculation scheme plays nice with extra credit?
What is Points-based?