Simplify Your Grading with Blackboard

By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Are you using Blackboard Grade Center to its full capacity? If not, you may be missing out on ways to simplify your grading. In this article, some of your VU colleagues share their favorite features of Blackboard Grade Center .  Dan Maguire (ECE) talks about using rubrics […]

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What is Your Favorite Feature of Canvas?

By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL Many of you are trying the Canvas LMS for the first time this semester. So we asked you what features of Canvas you have found work best for teaching and learning in your classes. Twelve of you responded. Here are some of the features that your colleagues […]

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Helping Your Students Write Better

By Cynthia Rutz, Director of Faculty Development, CITAL   We all know that  VU’s Writing Center exists to help students become better writers. But faculty often do not make full use of this splendid resource. In the following article, student writing consultant Maddie Henry gives us some tips about how we and the Writing Center […]

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