Life's not hard when you gotta library card
Libraries have a wonderful knack for sharing information you need where you need it. For example, they've devised a way to add Library Course Materials to your Canvas site and gain access to high quality scholarly documents, book chapters, and library research guides. (That includes the Course E-Textbooks program which provides free texts to students.)
Oh, and faculty can "request a course-specific Research Guide by consulting their subject librarian.
Getting your class to ChimeIn…
Are you looking for a way for students to chime in a bit more during class? Join a growing number of faculty at UMD who are using ChimeIn, a free alternative to hardware clickers with more advanced functionality.
Participants can access ChimeIn with a mobile device or computer.
Instructors can use ChimeIn with classes to:
- Instructors can set up ChimeIn to integrate with a Canvas site.
- Get immediate feedback after a lecture or class activity
- Have students share when/where they run into class content outside of class
- Take attendance of who was present in class
For more information, refer to:
Collaboration Matters
“Believing in students means seeing them as collaborators — believing they have valuable contributions to make to the way in which syllabi, assignments, and assessments are designed, and life experiences that should be respected in the classroom."