Blog
Notes on course design.
Practical ideas from building and teaching college computing courses — labs, assessment, course shells and the hosting behind them.
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Building a course shell you can reuse every term
A consistent LMS structure, tested in a sandbox and free of hard-coded dates, saves hours every term.
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Why we host student notebooks for Python courses
Local installs cost the first week of every Python course. Hosted notebooks give students a working environment on day one.
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Labs that fit the period: designing weekly labs students can finish in one sitting
Why we size every lab to the real time students have — and design labs that do not depend on last week.