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Tag: Assessment

Data Visualization: Teaching, Presenting, and Leading Using Data

To much of the world, your work is complicated and advanced (read: boring, yawn, crickets…). Don’t let the *data* behind your discoveries bog down your audience. This session will help you craft memorable messages, incorporating the hard facts from your spreadsheets into meaningful, compelling (and, yes, pretty), visualizations to boost your effectiveness as a communicator and […]

Oct 22, 2024

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Leveraging Strengths at Work

In this session, we will use the CliftonStrengths assessment as a resource for learning to leverage your strengths at work. The CliftonStrengths assessment measures the intensity of your natural talents – abilities which you use achieve excellence and satisfaction – in 34 distinct Themes. Using Gallup’s “Name it, Claim it, and Aim it” framework, Dr. […]

May 10, 2024

Struggling with Test Item Writing?

In this 50-minute session, you’ll learn how to write a good test question and how to examine the results to see if your question performed as planned

Mar 23, 2023

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Beyond Active Learning

This session will explore instructional and assessment strategies that promote student engagement, learning, satisfaction and community.

Feb 27, 2023

Getting Started with Echo360

Echo360 Active Learning Platform (ALP) can automatically record lectures on UNMC campuses, as well as provide valuable engagement tools to enhance learning and instruction. This guide offers seven essential ideas for using Echo360 when wanting to use video created outside of the classroom environment. Links are included to Quick Reference Cards (QRCs) that were created […]

Sep 16, 2022

Getting Started with Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere allows you to build engaging activities, integrate them seamlessly into your content, encourage critical thinking, and meet students where they currently are. Whether you are meeting with a small team or delivering a large lecture, Poll Everywhere is a tooldesigned to allow presenters to get to know their audience, collect feedback, gauge learning, […]

May 17, 2022

Talk I.T. Thru: Importing Rubrics in Canvas

In this episode of the “Talk I.T. Thru” video series, Michael Kozak provides a brief overview of how faculty and staff can import pre-created rubrics into their Canvas courses. For more information on adding rubrics to your Canvas courses, guided instructions are available on the Instructure Community site which can be found here. Other episodes […]

Apr 13, 2022

Scholarship Tips and Tricks

Watch this session as a UNMC expert shares her own insights about scholarship, including pedagogy/andragogy, curriculum design, assessment, learning analytics/data visualization, and distance education.

Nov 12, 2021

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Assessment

Dr. Sarah McBrien explains the ins and outs of assessment, including the types of assessment to use and options for providing feedback.

Oct 22, 2021

Teaching Launchpad: Assessment

Learning Objectives

In this Q&A session with Dr. Ally Dering-Anderson, you’ll learn key answers to some of the most important questions about learning objectives.

Sep 24, 2021

Dr. Ally Dering-Anderson Presents