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The Great Learning Management System Debate: Featuring Canvas, Schoology and Google Classroom

TeacherCast

Coupled with a variety of added benefits, each LMS comes with its own positives and negatives. Schoology is an LMS that has the visual appeal of a social media application like Facebook, which provides students with a platform they are comfortable in. Classroom isn’t a full-blown LMS. And which one do I choose?”.

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Digital Testing Safeguards

Tech Helpful

In 2013 I wrote my first blog post on managing technology usage in the classroom. The fear of off task behavior still seems to be one of the main reasons teachers are hesitant to use technology five years later. It starts with intentional boundaries being placed on students anytime technology is in their hands from pre-K forward.

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What is Cheating in the Digital Age?

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For instance, at our school, we use the LMS Canvas but it doesn't inherently lock a student into a quiz tab while taking a quiz so we have bought the "hack" known as Respondus Lockdown Browser as an add-on to do this. Are we still testing our students as if they didn't have access to technology?