Introduction
Do you want to organize your student tutorials in a more efficient way, so students don't need to raise their hands anymore, but just write their questions in a (digital) queue? So students can receive assistance in the order their questions arose? You can use TA-help.me to achieve this. Also during online classes, TA-help.me can help you!
Why TA-help.me
TA-help.me optimizes the process of assisting students in (online) tutorials (werkcolleges):
- Students register their questions inside the tool, to avoid keeping their hand up, and to be helped in the right order
- Teaching assistants (TA’s) might be in different rooms, but by having questions registered, the right TA can help the right question
- Sign-off procedure of students is automated
How to use TA-help.me
No software is required to use TA-help.me; TA-help.me is generally available as a Canvas plugin. TA-Help.me needs to be enabled in your Canvas course. First, navigate to your Canvas course and go to the page Settings. Under the Navigation tab you can see that TA-Help.me is currently disabled for you course. You can enable it by clicking ‘+ Enable’ under the options. After doing so a new button will be visible in your course navigation. By clicking on this button, you will get into the setup process.
(detailed information about how to enable a Navigation Link can be found in the Canvas documentation)
If you want to know more about using TA-help.me, you can go to the help-page on the TA-help.me website.
CONTACT
Teaching staff who want to know more about TA-help.me can visit the website or contact us by sending an email to telt@utwente.nl