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What Parts of the "New Normal" Are Here to Stay?
Education experienced unimaginable disruption and upheaval due to COVID-19. Educators and students alike felt isolated and overwhelmed as they faced increased class sizes and the ambiguity of…
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Top 10 Blog Posts That Educators Loved in 2020
Whew, 2020, am I right? What can we even say here? 2020 was a doozy! But I do think it’s important to try to find the good, to look for the light amidst the darkness.…
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5 Things You Need to Know About Assessments With Integrity
Designing and delivering assessments is an important part of student learning and teaching efficacy. In any environment, but especially in online learning,…
- 8 days ago
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Mindfulness and Integrity in the Remote Learning Environment
Mindfulness: a buzzword; a philosophy; a way of life. Whether you have read about mindfulness in the news, caught the gist of it from colleagues, or practice a daily mindfulness and meditation…
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How to Identify Contract Cheating Early Across Your Organization
This blog series about Turnitin Originality has focused on finding text that matches or closely resembles other known text and flagging it as potential plagiarism.…
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Improving Instructor Intuition and Student Growth
The act of teaching, while grounded in principles and specific student learning outcomes, is also an intuitive process. Are your students feeling well? Are your students struggling?…
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How to Uphold Integrity in Online Assessment Design
Online learning environments are a new realm for many educators--and thus an opportunity for innovation and improvement. That said, anything new can be daunting.…
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Flags Insight Panel for Focused Information
The internet is full of articles listing tricks to “beat Turnitin.” They lead students through complicated hoops to manipulate their assignments in order to bypass the similarity checking algorithm.…
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How to Bring Deeper Meaning to the Similarity Score
There is a lot of confusion around Turnitin’s similarity score. What’s the right percentage? Is this percent too high? Is that one too low? Ultimately, this decision is up to each instructor.…
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In the Spotlight: Loughborough University on Partnering with the Student Union
"Partnering with the Students’ Union may not be the first thing to come to mind when designing an academic integrity module for your institution”, says Kit Messinger,…
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In the Spotlight: Mark Sergeant on Academic Misconduct Panel Hearings
The academic integrity process is bi-fold. Although largely centered around introducing preventative measures and promoting strong digital literacy skills to deter misconduct,…
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Education is Built on Trust: New Solutions for New Challenges
When a student graduates and takes their diploma out into the world, there’s an inherent trust in what that credential means. It means the student did the work themselves.…
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Building and Maintaining Strong Student Relationships Remotely: Part 2
Are we already nearing the end of October?! This time of the year is typically filled with fun Fall activities, rigorous instruction and assignments, and a comfortable sense of where students are…
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In the Spotlight: Robin Crockett on Contract Cheating
Contract cheating is a growing trend in academic misconduct, globally. For instructors who are now without the comforts of the class and exam hall, they are confronted with a new set of challenges…
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Everything you Need to Know about Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences
As parent-teacher conference time approaches for educators and families, the preparation on both ends looks a little different this year. Instead of the typical in-person meeting,…
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How to Cultivate Student Engagement with Online Office Hours
Have you heard about “ acedia ”? It’s that listless, directionless loneliness that is consuming most of us these days. If it feels like your students aren’t very “present” in class these days,…
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How to Uphold the Best Practices in Online Grading
Assessment is how we measure learning. Feedback is how students learn, regardless of grades--and is critical in online learning environments. Paired together,…
- 3 mths ago
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Assessment is NOT a Dirty Word
Assessment... Testing... Data... Accountability... If you spend as much time talking to instructors as I do, you know that these words are part of the fabric of education.…
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Popular Blogs About Remote Learning for Educators
Whether you’ve returned to full, in-classroom teaching with adaptations or your school has embraced a remote or hybrid model for the semester, educators around the world are adjusting to a new…
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Why is it Important to Update Honor Codes for Online Learning Environments?
Honor codes reduce instances of academic misconduct . According to Donald McCabe , “at schools with honor codes (code schools), the number of students who admitted engaging in any of those kinds of…
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What are the New and Emerging Plagiarism Trends?
As schools and universities around the world prepare to pivot towards remote learning, it’s important to take note of the new challenges and opportunities to uphold integrity in student work.…
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There's a New Standard in Academic Integrity
As the new term approaches, schools and universities are faced with the difficult task of adapting high-quality, face-to-face instruction and assessment for online and hybrid learning environments.…
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Building and Maintaining Strong Student Relationships Remotely
It’s no surprise to those who work in education that student success is more than achieved grades. Research suggests that social-emotional factors, such as student relationships with teachers and…
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Making the Tough Call: Skill Deficit or Deliberate Plagiarism?
One of the most striking elements of education that new teachers struggle to understand before they have time in the classroom is just how many factors are involved in the art and science of…
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Prioritizing Educator Self-Care in a COVID World
Imagine you are training for a marathon. You have a schedule of workouts stretched out in front of you, weeks of activity to prepare for your race. You’ve planned for several long runs and many…
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