About the Spring 2023 Pilot During the Spring 2023 semester, Canvas was utilized by a growing number of students, instructors and courses, building on the success of the Fall 2022 pilot. Specifically, over 500 students and 21 instructors across 35 courses used Canvas. Seven new instructors joined the pilot, while fourteen existing users continued to…
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Pilot Background In the early 2000s, The Claremont Colleges deployed a variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) solutions – Moodle at Pomona College, WebCT at Claremont McKenna College, and Sakai at Harvey Mudd College. Sometime around 2005 or 2006, the Consortium standardized on one LMS, Sakai, and it has been in use continually by most…
Some Background In spring 2022, ITS began efforts to migrate faculty from the College’s aging, in-house, academic video service, known as Video47. The migration began in earnest by summer 2022, with a series of communications, alerting those with files on Video47 to the need for the migration, as well as to keep them informed during…
It is important to keep up professionally, staying abreast with those technologies applied in teaching and scholarship so that we can support the Pomona community. We in RITG are fortunate to have funding from the College and ITS to do so. We sometimes use these funds for trainings and workshops, such as developing leadership skills…
A First-Generation Low-Income (FLI) Student’s Reflections After completing finals last spring and returning to the comforting recluse of my parent’s home, a reflection of my first year on campus was nothing short of unavoidable. My childhood home, situated in a small, rural Nebraskan town, stands in contrast to the buzzing, collaborative, resource-filled environment at Pomona…
Summer is upon us! This will be the last RITG blog post until next fall. We’ll be working on various projects over the summer–some of which involve you–that we hope to unveil in the fall and following months. For one, be sure to watch for our teaching with technology trainings before classes commence. As the spring…
A visit to the Foreign Language Resource Center (FLRC), one of the various departmental labs at Pomona As we quest to innovate and use technology to enhance teaching and learning at Pomona College, sometimes this requires the use of spaces that exceed the abilities of our technology-enhanced classrooms so we can better work with and…
Have you been overwhelmed with endless piles of papers or other assignments to grade? Are you looking for a useful and reliable assessment tool? Do you have a list of the pain points that your students repeatedly stumble over? If this sounds familiar to you, consider using the Sakai Rubrics tool. Rubrics can facilitate your…
High performance computer (HPC) does not refer to a single fast computer but rather a set of computers that work together to run various complex computations, such as DNA analysis, physics simulations, and more. ITS has been working for several years to develop a true HPC environment so that Pomona faculty and staff have every…
I know we’ve been dangling the 2022-2023 Hahn Grant cycle carrot in front of you since February, so without further ado, I am pleased to announce that the call for proposals is open! This year’s call asks for applications by faculty interested in redesigning their pedagogical approaches and/or course structure around the use of (1)…