Faculty Dev.

Types of polls that can be used for synchronous and asynchronous students. Suggestions for question types to gather different types of student feedback, such as feedback and assessment,

Make a good first impression Your syllabus is the first impression you will make on your students. At Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, our adult students often decide whether or not to enroll in a course based on the syllabus. They...

Teaching Your Asynchronous Students At Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, we have courses in which all online students are synchronous and other courses with all asynchronous students. We also have courses that have both asynch...

Succeed Through Our Failures.pdf

Developing Students Academic Courage.pdf                                                    ...

Project-Based Learning.pdf

1.  Share the Context & Purpose of the Reading:   Add your personal instructor voice by annotating the reading pages to make the reading process more meaningful. Also, include a list of what readings are required and optional....

Gather Study Lounge: Tutorial Video & Guide Click on the video above & view the guide below for tips on helping your students get started using the Gather Study Lounge, ways they can use it, and how to get help. What is the ...

AI and Teaching and Learning: Some Resources Artificial Intelligence is impacting education in a myriad of ways.  It’s hard to keep up with the new technological developments and educators' responses to it.  Some embrace...

Your Harvard Extension School course has a Canvas site that goes hand-in-hand with your class sessions. Think of Canvas as the door to your classroom — it’s a unified space for you to share resources, communicate with your students, an...

Online discussions are a great way to build student community, engagement, and learning in a course. Engaging in good discourse is a useful skill for your students to practice and learn. Like any learning goal in your course, students will need a me...

When managing a web conference with over 50 students, it’s important to be intentional and structured in your teaching. Here are tips for running a large class in Zoom.  Structure how students ask questions:  Raising real hands an...

Top 4 Tips for Assigning Handwritten Work (or Alternatives) Does the student work in your course include symbols, notation, graphs, or calculations that are difficult to type? Here are some tips for managing handwritten student work in an online ...

How are your students feeling about class? Does silence mean they’re confused, or that they’re ready to move on? Here are a few ways to check in with your students when teaching online. Zoom polls during web conference . You can ...

Feedback is a key component in helping students progress towards the goals you have laid out for them in your class. What is good feedback? More importantly, how do we frame our feedback in a way where students read it and use it to inform their fut...

The best way to understand how students are doing in a course is to ask them directly - but in order to do so effectively, it is crucial to build trust with your students, provide them with multiple opportunities and channels to provide feedback, a...

Goals & Planning Considering changing from a traditional final exam to another format? Start planning from the beginning of the term. Some of these ideas could be added during the term, but for maximum flexibility, include them in your first ...

How To Give Non-Proctored Exams How To Give Handwritten Exams Online How To Give High-Quality Exams How To Give Non-Proctored Exams A closed-book proctored exam tests what a student has memorized. But “professional or discipli...

Top 4 Ways to do Group Work Online Top 5 Ways to Do Chalkboard/Whiteboard Work Online Top 4 Ways to do Group Work Online Student-to-student connection is important and achievable when teaching online. Here are some ways you can do grou...

Top 5 Things To Do In Your First Class Online Getting Your Students to Read Your Syllabus Top 5 Things To Do In Your First Class Online Teaching online for the very first time? Here are some tips for your very first session to start th...