Dear SNC Colleagues, what have you always wanted an LMS to do for you? I always wanted an LMS that had a grading system which allowed me to weight assignmentsdifferently. For example, exams count 35% towards the final grade, lab counts 25%,reflections count 20%, etc. I wanted an LMS that was streamlined and user friendly, […]
A Letter to my colleagues about Canvas Read More »
This blog post may be especially helpful for those who are looking for grading files other than Word or pdf files.In Spring 2024, I am teaching an advanced statistics class that requires grading Excel files. For any Canvas assignments, you can download all submissions as a zip file: On your computer, you can unzip it
Alternative to Using the SpeedGrader (by Angela Mak) Read More »
This Fall, a group of faculty members representing three divisions (Natural Science, Social Science, and the Schneider School of Business) participated in a learning community that explored the use of the digital social annotation tool Hypothesis (https://web.Hypothesis/). Annotation through Hypothesis is freely available online (a user must first create an account to participate) or can
Exploring the digital social annotation tool Hypothesis Read More »
After teaching myself how to use learnR to teach students how to apply statistics to real problems using R and RStudio, I started teaching some of my colleagues as part of a Resident Digital Fellows Pilot Program. I divided the content into four sessions with a project being due for the fourth session. For the
Teaching R Using RStudio Connect Read More »
Background Convening tablet and specifically iPad users to discuss problems with and strategies for the use of this type of technology to enhance teaching has been something I have been interested in since I started at St. Norbert. I started Tablets in Teaching as an informal gathering several years ago, and it has continued fairly
Tablets in Teaching Learning Community Read More »
It can be hard to be an expert in something you fear. The promise of R and R-studio is that an open source software can do what costly packages do but better and at no cost to the user. The costs are however quite large as R is build not around drag and drop menus
R-Studio workgroup part 2 Read More »
This mini blog post is to start the process of decompressing and explaining how together with some wonderful people that are part of the Academic Technology Team we piloted a learning community focused on learning more about R and R-Studio. This was something that had been brewing for years. But for one reason or another
The R-Studio experi (ence/ment) Read More »
