Using your LMS as an Equity & Retention Tool

1. Using your LMS as an Equity & Retention Tool Dr. Liz Falconer Twitter: @lizfalconer80 email: lfalconer@rtc.edu

3. Director of Innovative Teaching and Learning eLearning/PD lead at very diverse technical college QM master reviewer UDL Lead: One of college’s signature pedagogies Faculty; ESL, College Success, Professional Development, graduate courses, etc. About Me I am: Female. White.Privileged. Elements in play that put my focus on equity and retention -->

4. Today’s Road Map Part 1:Introduction Equity Concepts Part 2: Looking at your LMS with an Equity Mindset: Samples and ideas Links to all material can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/ybvbodng

5. Equity minded educators... • are cognizant of exclusionary practices and systemic inequities that produce outcome disparities in educational contexts • attribute outcome disparities to breakdowns in institutional performance rather than exclusively to student deficits or behaviors • continuously reflect upon their roles in and responsibilities for student success • challenge their colleagues to be equity-minded educators Bensimon, 2007 Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL)

7. The 4 Connections • Interact with students by name • Check in regularly • Schedule one-on-one meetings • Practice Paradox Odessa College Drop Rate Improvement Program

8. The Canvas Course Evaluation Checklist

9. Two-Fold Paradox: • We teach how we were taught… • We ignore the diversity we don’t see. Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL)

11. Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL)

12. Part 2: Looking at your LMS with an Equity Mindset

13. RTC Login page

14. Reflect your students in your course

15. Keep students on track: Complete all Items

16. Check student Progress

17. Extensive use of nudging tools

18. Schedule meetings

19. Use Announcements for Engagement • Mini study-guide for upcoming test • Call out contributions from various perspectives • Ask for six-word day/week/assignment summaries • Look back, then look forward • Include survey • Include quotes “Success doesn’t come to you. You go to it.” Marva Collins

20. Take advantage of Internet Tools Visit the APPS page (from your settings tab) to see the whole collection. Some of my favorite FREE tools to embed in Courses: • Screencast-o-matic Screencast-O-Matic is an easy-to-use, powerful lecture capture, flipped learning and video publishing solution including recorder, video editor, video cms and more. • Quizlet Search for and embed publicly available flashcards and question sets from Quizlet. Questions can be embedded directly into content as flash cards, review, or as a study game. • Twitter Embed lists of recent tweets or individual tweets from Twitter. Lists can be derived from search results, or from a user’s twitter feed. • YouTube Search publicly available YouTube videos. A new icon will show up in your course rich editor letting you search YouTube and click to embed videos in your course material.

21. Also easily integrated: Padlet Google Tools

23. Give each assignment a purpose

24. Scaffold assignments I am going to jump-start your next assignment here: Please watch then continue to Lift Off on the next page.

25. Call Out Diversity 1. Consider your past experience as a student. What does this make you think about? How does it relate to your life? (5 points) 2. What is your "golden line" (favorite line) or ah-hah moment (something you realized) when you read/watched this? (5 points) Donovan Livingston: Lift Off

26. Create Safe Assignments • Canvas Practice Tests • No-grade surveys • Extra credit discussions • Lowest grade dropped • Points for mentoring others

27. Use course course card images with intent Before: After:

28. Student stories: Part of the learning process. “Originally, I am from Poland…I am posting a few pictures that put a smile on my face because I experienced that magic and want to share with you.”

29. Encourage visuals whenever possible “I’m originally from Somalia but was born in Ethiopia due to the war…”

30. Include everyone “I am originally from a small town in North Carolina called Laurinburg. I chose this picture because it helps me feel at home while looking at it. Its very country like and everyone knows everyone and the buildings are very old.”

31. Last but not least….

32. Share ideas. Create public courses. rtc.edu/streetofdreams

33. Summary Think of your LMS as a learning strategy. You have control. Links to all material can be found at: https://tinyurl.com/ybvbodng