Sakai Back-to-school FAQs
With the start of the Fall 2022 semester right around the corner, here are answers to frequently asked questions instructors and students have asked in the past. Instructors How do …
Upload to the Syllabus Bank to Support an Equitable Student Experience
By Chase Barclay & Jax NalleyDuke Student Government Academic Affairs Committee Duke Student Government is excited to offer our Syllabus Bank platform for its second consecutive semester this fall. The …
Sakai Spring Cleaning
It’s that time of the year again where we all clear out our closets of old clothes, wipe down every surface, clean out our dryer ducts (Yes, really! This should …
An Update to Sakai is Coming Dec. 20th
On December 20th (8am – 1pm ET), we will be updating the Sakai platform to give you access to more features to improve your experience using Sakai. If you plan …
Updates to Sakai Project Site Role Names & Permissions
In collaboration with the Kits team, Sakai project sites will have their role names updated to match role names used on the Kits platform. This change is being made to …
Handling Extended Student Absences
For the Fall 2021 semester, if any of your students need to miss several consecutive days of your class due to isolating with COVID-19 or any other reason, you are …
More Structured Classrooms and Supportive Instructors Lead to Better Student Experiences
Duke professors Minna Ng and Thomas Newpher conduct research on team-based learning (TBL). Throughout the 2020–2021 academic year, they were challenged to find ways to do TBL in online and …
Announcing Continued Expanded Access to 2,000+ Courses via Coursera Partner Consortium
In 2020, we partnered with Coursera to expand access to their catalog for the Duke community with the Coursera for DKU and the Duke 2020 Access programs. Those opportunities were …
Read the Duke Learning Innovation 2020 Impact Report
Normally we release an annual report over the summer summarizing our accomplishments of the previous academic year. The past year has been anything but normal. After a spring dedicated to …
Professor Richard Kiely: A Conversation on Transformative Learning
As part of our mission to promote new approaches to student-centered teaching, Learning Innovation is publishing this series written by members of Duke’s Transformative Learning Intellectual Community. The TLIC is a …