NotebookLM’s “Audio Overview” Feature: A Powerful Learning Tool

NotebookLM’s Audio Overview is an innovative AI-powered feature that transforms uploaded documents, such as research papers, articles, or presentations, into engaging, podcast-style audio summaries. Rather than simply converting text to speech, it simulates a conversation between two AI hosts who discuss the main ideas …

Student Blog Series 4: Reorganizing the Class Structure

This is the area where we use all of what we’ve gathered from the past three blogs to lessen the redundancy of lectures and help students draw more value from the coursework given. Here’s how we can do it:  Move …

Student Blog Series 3: Setting Up for Integration  

This step can be thought of as the same as or similar to the first blog in the series on gathering information to create in-class support structures. What we are trying to do now is to collect information to integrate …

Student Blog Series 1: Creating Guideposts for Students

A foundational step for engaging students in coursework is to ensure that instructors create clear and transparent guideposts for students in a course. This clarity in foundational design provides the framework from which the other elements addressed in the blog …

Reimagining Class Learning Structures: A Student Perspective

Rick, Undergraduate student blog series    The following series was written by an undergraduate UWM student on the type of learning, instructional activities, educational design, and pedagogical support they want to experience in courses. They came to CETL with their ideas, …

F-Grade Policy — Overview for Instructors

The federal government’s Title IV financial aid regulations require that we document participation for students receiving F grades. Please follow the guidance below to reduce improper allocation of federal aid and protect UWM from audit risks and liabilities.  You can …

Student Success in the Classroom

In Fall 2024, Academic Affairs and the Center for Advancing Student Learning (CASL) hosted over 220 faculty and staff in departmental teams to develop scalable action plans for improving student success and learning at UWM via intentional action at the …