Learning is, to a large extent, a social endeavor. Helping students get to know each other—and you—as quickly as possible smooths the way for those critical social processes. We are focusing on virtual methods to support online and hybrid courses, but they all can be used for, if they didn’t originate in, the traditional classroom.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Early Engagement & Icebreakers
A relatively new Canvas feature, the SpeedGrader Comment Library, allows instructors to easily save and re-use responses, routine or otherwise, across their Canvas courses.
Re-use can be a good thing! Because they have a broad overview of their feedback and comments across a course, instructors can feel ambivalent (or worse) about reusing comments and feedback for multiple students. But the reality is, as long as the comment is accurate and aligned with your grading criteria, the comment is new and useful to the individual student.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Save Time with the SpeedGrader Comment Library
The UW Office of Information Technology and the UWT Office of Digital Learning are always here to help with your technical and pedagogical questions, respectively, but there are a plethora of resources to help you on your Canvas journey.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Canvas Self-Help Resources
Alignment connects a course together from the broadest objectives to the most granular activities. Creating an aligned curriculum facilitates strategic thinking, ensuring—to the extent possible—that everything we and our students do is in service of a particular course’s learning goals.
In this Teaching Tip, you will learn to:
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Fundamentals of Learning Objectives & Alignment
Sparking rich discussion can be even more challenging online than in the traditional classroom. In this Teaching Tip Live session, we’ll look at some ideas for prompting and structuring discussions, and even rethinking what discussion means altogether.
In this Teaching Tip Live session we showed you how easy it is to create accessible Canvas Pages that are accessible from the beginning. It isn’t just the right thing to do, enhancing equity and inclusion—and saving time in the future—it’s the law. But we’ll focus on the first part!
In aviation, a preflight checklist is a list of tasks performed by pilots before takeoff. Based on a select few principles of the Hybrid/Online Course Development and Evaluation Rubric (despite the title, the Rubric largely applies to face-to-face classes too) and other best practices, using this checklist can help avoid needless problems before your course lifts off the virtual tarmac!
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: A Pre-Flight Checklist.
Canvas Assignments (including traditional Assignments, Graded Discussions, Quizzes, and Surveys) can be organized into groups. These are useful on their own to help students (and instructors!) keep track of coursework, but can further be used to implement “weighted” grading, which provides significantly more flexibility for instructors to implement a flexible, adaptive curriculum.
Learn more in the most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Organizing and Weighting Grades in Canvas.
The most recent releases of the Zoom client include some new features and changes particularly useful for the online classroom: blurred background, co-host breakout room controls, and the ability to play video directly into a meeting.
Learn more in most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: A Few New Zoom Features
Even in non-pandemic times, providing virtual office hours can be an excellent way to support your students, but they are practically required. A little planning can make them more productive for teachers and learners alike, while increasing opportunities for valuable faculty-student interactions. Oh, and try to avoid using your personal Zoom meeting room for office hours!
Learn more in most recent entry in our Tips ‘n Techniques series: Online Office Hours That Work.
