I hope that you got what you needed out of spring break - whether it be resting, vacationing, spring cleaning, or catching up on work. Me, I worked a couple days, did home projects, and relaxed. I am ready for the rest of the semester! Here are my tidbits for this week:
Accessibility - creating PDF files. Two weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of creating accessible documents and resources for students who experience disabilities. It's important to give all our students the tools to succeed because of legal requirements. Additionally, providing accessible materials benefits all learners. One of the reasons to use Styles and other formatting techniques when creating Word files is that they create create a structure that is easy for a screen reader to navigate. The next step is to take the Word files and convert them to PDFs while maintaining the document structure. Here's a cheat sheet on creating accessible PDFs.
Flipping the Math Classroom. This is a great series of posts on flipping a calculus classroom by Robert Talbert, a mathematician and educator affiliated with the Mathematics Department at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He is thinking deeply about the pedagogy and his learning outcomes. I find his work inspiring.
- The inverted calculus course and self-regulated learning
- The inverted calculus course: Using Guided Practice to build self-regulation
- Creating learning objectives, flipped classroom style
- Getting student buy-in for the inverted calculus class
- Getting off on the right foot in an inverted calculus class
Logging in to Blackboard as a Student. You have a special account associated with your instructor login that allows you to log in as a student to your course. You can try out a quiz, see what is available to students, or see what the student grades view looks like.
Hint: I usually log in to Blackboard with Firefox as an instructor and log in with Chrome as a student if I am testing something. If you are just using one browser, you will have to log out as an instructor and then log in as a student. You will know that you are logged in as a student if there is no control panel.
If your student account does not exist, or is not in a given course, contact the Call Center for help.
Here is the login information:
username: your username followed by _studentpassword: your ID number followed by _student
For example:
djones_student30123456_student
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