In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Julianna Kirschner discusses setting up Brightspace group assignments and discusses the managing evaluators tool for grading in classes with TAs.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Rita Barakat from Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences demonstrates how to integrate Google Suite to organize one’s course and engage students in the learning process by sharing resources and communicating effectively.
In this Faculty Showcase on Brightspace from November 2024, Guilan Siassi from Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences shares various multimedia tools and workflow management features on Brightspace to engage and empower students in the learning process.
This resource provides an overview of creating and using community agreements in a course to support respectful and productive student engagement. It includes options for how to create agreements, tips for implementation, and example agreements.
Keywords: community agreements, discussion norms, discussion guidelines, community guidelines, challenging discussions, academic discussions, dialogue, student engagement.
This resource covers strategies for facilitating academic discussions in a variety of teaching settings, including tips for planning discussions, options for whole and small-group discussion types, considerations for assessing student discussions, and relevant research.
Keywords: discussion, small group discussion, discussion forums, active learning, community agreements, discussion norms, strategic questions, participation.
A description of active learning strategies for a variety of teaching settings, including tips for implementation, sample activity descriptions, options for planning active learning and relevant research.
Bobby Borg of the USC Thornton School of Music discusses how student teams can use fictional artist personas to collaboratively create innovative music marketing strategies during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Leonardo Morsut of the USC Keck School of Medicine discusses a strategy to structure group assignments for in-class activities using collaborative tools during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Julianna Kirschner of USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism discusses the development of collaborative sustainability work in a Small Group and Team Communication class with support from the Sustainability Across the Curriculum Grant during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
Siqin (Sisi) Want of the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute discusses a group assignment strategy where students evaluate land use suitability for future housing development and share their work with local stakeholders during the February 2024 Faculty Showcase.
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