Ball State UniversityThe Teaching Innovation Blog

Month: April 2025

  • Creating, Storing, and Sharing Your Videos with Panopto

    Creating, Storing, and Sharing Your Videos with Panopto 
    April 30, 2025 by

    As OneDrive storage is decreased, this blog advocates for creating, storing, and sharing course videos with Panopto. Beginning this summer, the University’s OneDrive storage will be significantly decreased. Specifically, storage quotas in existing student, faculty, and staff OneDrive accounts will gradually be reduced to 3GB. As quotas are reduced, Ball State faculty may consider moving […]

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  • Observations After My Teaching Gap Years  
    April 23, 2025 by

    Learn how Caleb used his experience as an instructional consultant to make sense of his first time back in the classroom after a years-long break. This academic year, I taught for the first time since 2021. In my time away from teaching, many shifts in education have occurred. In this blog, I share insights and […]

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  • How I Integrated Panopto into My Canvas Course 
    April 9, 2025 by

    To help instructors utilize Panopto in their own courses, this article details how I integrated Panopto into my online COMM 210 course this spring. What is Panopto?  Available to Ball State faculty and employees, Panopto is a video platform for creating, managing, and sharing video content.   If you are interested in using Panopto as a […]

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  • When Grading Practices Fail
    April 2, 2025 by

    Are you looking for ways to support your students through the assessment/grading process? Five colleagues share their experience with nontraditional and alternative grading practices. Assessment is an important teaching tool. Yet, some aspects of traditional grading systems can reinforce imbalanced power structures. Studying grading practices more closely can help instructors accurately measure students’ knowledge, skills, […]

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