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Difficult Dialogues: Resources for Teaching in a Fraught Climate

 |  Tasha Souza, Cynthia Ganote, Libby Roderick, and Floyd Cheung  |  , ,

As teachers, we cannot control all aspects of the learning environment. Sometimes local, national, and international events send shock waves through our communities that most of us cannot ignore and that all of us--students, faculty, and staff--experience in different ways. Although we can never predict how to respond in such moments, here are a handful of resources that might help with framing conversations both in and outside of the classroom.

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Getting Started in Blackboard, Essentials Part 1

 |  Lara Madden, Faculty Development Specialist  |  , ,

Essential items for faculty using UA Learn Blackboard for teaching.

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Essentials in Blackboard for Online Course Design, Part 1

 |  Lara Madden  |  , ,

When just beginning or updating the first draft of your online learning course review this information to understand how and where to use the built in course design tools found in Blackboard Learn.

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Accessing Fall 2016 and Prior Collaborate Sessions

 |  Amy Ross  |  ,

Accessing and adding previously recorded BB Collaborate sessions to a current course.

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Streamline Grading with Rubrics

 |  Heather Marie  |  , ,

I’ll be the first to admit I’m a big fan of rubrics. When I first started teaching, I was grading 150 sophomore essays every three weeks and working long(er than necessary) hours commenting on all of them. The problem? The comments were redundant, but I wanted my students to know how to improve. I expressed this to an experienced colleague who introduced me to rubrics. I created a rubric for my next round of essays, reviewed it with my students, noticed they demonstrated a better grasp of the assignment, cut my grading time by at least a third, and was sold!