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"Instructions: Cut & paste your student's paper or homework assignment into the box below, and click the "check" button. This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports." A tool to try if you suspect plagiarism....

Rethink the prioritization of content in your course and use it to provide high quality instruction. Learn new ways to view critical content for your students.

Having essential questions drive curriculum and learning has become core to many educators' instructional practices. Grant Wiggins, in his work on Understanding By Design, describes an essential question as: A meaning of "essential" involves important questions that recur throughout one's life. Such questions are broad in scope and timeless by nature.

Backward course design forces us, as faculty, to make tough decisions about what content is really needed for our students to achieve their learning goals.