How to Bring Discussions Back Into Discussion Forums
Discussion forums are now a staple of online education. However, since becoming common fare in online classrooms, many students have lost their appetite for them and teachers and institutions wrestle with how to get them to partake. As a [read more...]
Checking the Plagiarism Checkers
2020-02-05Checking the Plagiarism Checkers
What those Similarity Reports might not be telling you...
Plagiarism is not a new phenomenon in education, but the widespread use of plagiarism checking tools by students, teachers, and institutions is fairly recent. It used to be up to teachers to discover [read more...]
Do you use graded online discussions in your class? Here are a few ways to avoid violating FERPA in discussion forums.
by Brenda Thomas
Everybody who works for an educational institution that receives any federal funds needs to understand and abide by FERPA (a.k.a The Buckley Amendment). [read more...]