Description: (My thoughts on teaching Physics)
We use Canvas as our LMS and I use the modules page as my course home page. I’m all about leveraging module requirements to ensure that students actually go through the modules. The modules page in Canvas is essentially an accordion style navigation page so when expanded out, all those pages can be intimidating and overwhelming. I’ve tinkered with using emojis in the module titles and used module headers once or twice – that was more of a proof of concept type of thing just to see how it works and how stude
This also means I’m spending an inordinate amount time deciding what emoji to use for things like a link to a Google Doc that will create a copy of that doc in the student’s Google Drive. [Clipboard 📋? Wrapped gift 🎁? The magic wand emoji coming out later this year might be good, but it’s not available now. ]
I’ve already gone a long way in simplifying grading when I switched to mastery based grading (MBG) a couple of years ago. It’s taken me that long to refine it in a way that will work for me, and I think I finally have a system that both provides students actionable feedback & keeps my grading manageable. I love MBG for a bunch of reasons (it deserves its own post which I hope to do soon), but finding a way to implement it that let students easily know their letter grade took me a while. My new system is bas