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Flexible, Equitable Access to Course Content During COVID
The University of Oregon’s Academic Council states that, for fall 2021, “Instructors should ensure that absent students have equitable access to course content” and “clear communication and make-up protocols in place for students to follow if students are going to be or have been absent.” What…
Bringing Remote Teaching Strategies Forward to In-Person Classes
To engage students in remote learning, many instructors adopted new strategies or innovated existing practices in creative ways. As we transition forward to in-person classrooms again, we can bring many remote teaching strategies along with us, providing us a bevy of dynamic options for…
Preventing and Fixing Accessibility Issues in Your Canvas Course
This guide will walk you through addressing possible accessibility issues in your Canvas course.
Acknowledging Ongoing Impacts of Racialized Violence
The past year has been a painful one marked by the continuation of racialized violence perpetuated against Black people and other people of color. For many, the trial of ex-police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd resurfaces deep grief…
Designing Assessments for Academic Integrity
This page offers four main strategies to designing assessments for greater academic integrity, as well as focused, actionable tips for creating and placing settings on exams to support academic integrity. If you are revisiting your assessment approaches in light of GenAI use, in addition to the…
Communicating for Academic Integrity
The following communication practices have supported academic integrity in faculty and graduate student instructors' classes. Consider you beliefs about students and their motivations for engaging in academic misconduct, as these beliefs shape how we communicate with them. Dr. Yvette Alex-Assensoh…
How UO Students Think About and Plan for Academic Integrity
All incoming first year and transfer students going through the IntroDUCKtion Student Orientation now complete a Canvas module called Ducks Have Academic Integrity. We asked students completing the module in fall 2021 if they would give us permission to share some of their responses to…
Academic Integrity at UO
The University of Oregon is home to a vibrant and diverse intellectual community. We are committed to introducing students to the work of cutting-edge scholars, researchers, and practitioners as well as to respecting students as scholars, researchers, and practitioners.…
Inclusion & Class Climate
Inclusive Teaching is one of four fundamental pillars of teaching quality at UO. It engages and values every student and attends to the social and emotional climate of the class. Inclusion is enacted through particular choices faculty make in their presentation of self and content, and…