Fri 20 Feb 2026 19:00 - 22:00 at Meeting Room 260-267 - Tutorial

College has a lot of unwritten rules, and some of our students will matriculate knowing those rules while others don’t. Research has shown that revising homework assignments to make these unwritten rules explicit can help students’ academic confidence and sense of belonging. This tutorial is intended for faculty who may be interested in revising their assignments to make those unwritten rules clear to students. We will focus on Transparent Assignment Design, a framework used to make explicit the purpose, task, and criteria of assignments. Come to this tutorial for a crash course on making your assignments transparent followed by hands-on help! You may wish to bring an assignment you are interested in revising (or we will provide samples) and your choice of editing tool (e.g., laptop, pen/paper).

Fri 20 Feb

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19:00 - 22:00
19:00
3h
Talk
Tutorial 302: Transparent Teaching
Tutorials
Vidushi Ojha Harvey Mudd College, Andrea Watkins University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Christopher Perdriau University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Colleen M. Lewis University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign