A Shortcut for Creating Random Groups
October 10, 2023
teaching & shortcuts
Just before the academic year began in late August, I found myself looking through the Shortcuts application to see whether I had any shortcuts I
Duplicating Files and Folders With Shortcuts
August 30, 2022
shortcuts & teaching
Last week, I wrote about Python scripts for duplicating files and folders. Those scripts work well. However, not everyone is comfortable working
Python Scripts for Duplicating Files and Folders
August 23, 2022
python & teaching
Earlier this summer, I spent some time creating Python scripts to copy files and folders. Why do that? For me, the most common use case for copying
A Shortcut for Randomly Calling on Students
July 19, 2022
teaching & shortcuts
Calling on students in class is, perhaps surprisingly, one of the things I find challenging. I’ve never been wholly comfortable cold-calling on
A Course Planning Template
April 28, 2021
teaching
I’ve been experimenting with Notion on and off for quite a while, and during the Fall 2020 semester I began exploring how I might use it for course
Paperless Handwritten Feedback
March 8, 2021
how-to & teaching
This is a script I wrote to accompany a short video I created for my colleagues a couple of years ago. The video is available on YouTube: I’d like
Sabbatical Diary: Thinking About Grades
March 8, 2021
teaching
This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on October 4, 2012. This semester, I’m in an
Collecting Student Work With Google Forms
March 8, 2021
how-to & teaching
This blog post originally appeared on the ProfHacker blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education on January 10, 2017. A good number of us here at