The Community Builder

Task your students to create a short quiz of fun facts about themselves to post to a Canvas discussion board so that the class can get to know each other. Here’s one by Lisa Nunn, Sociology, using www.quizizz.com. Lisa is going to give her students one “free” absence over the semester if they post one about themselves to Canvas (she would give them the one absence anyway, but students like to feel like they are earning a free ticket).

Create a course playlist (on Spotify, Amazon Music, etc.) with songs related to the themes you have been and will be discussing throughout the semester and play a different song as students are arriving or leaving each day. You can also give students extra credit for presenting additional songs that would fit with the class playlist. –Thanks to Laura Getz, Psychological Sciences for this tip she learned at the 2022 Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning