{"id":2892,"date":"2023-03-22T09:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T05:41:56","slug":"uit-at-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2023\/03\/22\/uit-at-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tool for Faculty Peer Review of Canvas Discussions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty peer reviews of teaching benefit faculty and students in a variety of ways. Peer review is endorsed and recognized within and outside of OSU as an <a href=\"https:\/\/ctl.oregonstate.edu\/peer-observation-teaching-maximizing-benefits-teaching-and-learning\">evidence-based practice<\/a> that supports quality teaching, and is also a component of promotion and tenure dossiers for many OSU faculty.<\/p>\n<p>In a campus-based course, a peer reviewer may join a class session to observe students interacting with each other and with the instructor. In hybrid and fully-online courses, Canvas discussion forums are primary places for direct student and instructor engagement.<\/p>\n<p>For faculty peers who are reviewing hybrid and courses, having access to the online discussions is a critical aspect of the review.<\/p>\n<p>UIT-Academic Technologies has developed a tool in Canvas called Faculty Peer Review that allows faculty to share discussion forums with colleagues during faculty peer reviews in a way that protects student data and mirrors the on-campus peer review classroom visit.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is entirely optional for faculty who want to create an anonymized discussion as part of a peer review.<\/p>\n<p>The Faculty Peer Review tool will be added to all OSU Canvas course sites on March 29 (the tool is not visible to students). <a href=\"https:\/\/oregonstate.teamdynamix.com\/TDClient\/1935\/Portal\/KB\/ArticleDet?ID=151830\">Learn how to enable the tool in your course<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have questions about this new tool or other instructional technology? Send us an email: <a href=\"mailto:canvas@oregonstate.edu\">canvas@oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>By Lynn Greenough, Associate Director, Learning Platform Services, UIT-Academic Technologies<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty peer reviews of teaching benefit faculty and students in a variety of ways. Peer review is endorsed and recognized within and outside of OSU as an evidence-based practice that supports quality teaching, and is also a component of promotion and tenure dossiers for many OSU faculty. In a campus-based course, a peer reviewer may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177,1],"tags":[448365,448435,448434],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-uncategorized","tag-canvas","tag-discussions","tag-peer-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}