Developing assignments to strengthen literacy skills in the online format

To ensure that students can successfully tackle literature in and outside of their discipline, it is important for them to strengthen their literacy skills. The classic way to do this is assigning a term paper. This is time consuming for both the student and faculty. This also tends to be a high stakes assignment. In this session, I will share some of my online assignments both synchronous and asynchronous that strengthen students’ literacy skills in upper-level Biology courses. I will share some of my tips on how to make grading these assignments less time consume especially for large class sizes.