Format – MacDigital

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added readings and assignments to Perusall for past courses and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It can even preserve your assignment links on Moodle, given a little bit of elbow grease. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations....

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Podcasting

I need to make a podcast… A podcast is a digitally recorded audio file that can be downloaded or streamed for listening. Podcast content is as varied as the hosts who produce them. They can be long or short, serious interviews or comedic parodies, groundbreaking research or fictional stories that last for 5 minutes or span several episodes. As class...

Asynchronous/Digital Projects/Practice-based

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Engineering Student Collaboration and Group Work

Knox College colleague Eric Dickens, in collaboration with his colleague Cate Denial, also from Knox, facilitated a session focused on student collaboration and group work. Watch the ACM workshop and use the additional resources to learn how to encourage remote student engagement and collaboration.

Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

RefWorks

RefWorks allows you to both manage citations in a personal-to-you database and annotate PDFs asynchronously.

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based/Practice-based

Flipgrid

FlipGrid allows students to record short videos in response to teacher prompts and each other in a fun, social media inspired environment.

Asynchronous/Discussion/Practice-based/Presentations

Slack

You can use Slack to create a communal workspace where users can chat or share documents and links.

Asynchronous/Community Building/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work/Synchronous

Google Slides Presentations with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere allows users to embed interactive components into a Google Slides presentation. Use this how-to to learn how to create a Google Slides presentation with an embedded Poll Everywhere component!

Discussion-based/Lecture/Polling/Presentations/Synchronous

Zoom FAQ

This FAQ answers your Zoom questions and provides links for more in-depth information and tutorials!

Practice-based/Synchronous

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