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  1. How to Give Exams

    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...
  2. Design Gallery Spotlight: Thematic Course Illustration Assets

    Course Design Spotlights highlight innovative projects that members of the Teaching and Learning team work on with DCE faculty through the Teach Partnership program. Emmy Waldman's ENGL E-184 The Graphic Novel partnership resulted in many custom...
  3. Alternatives to Exams

    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 ...
  4. Creating & Implementing Student Feedback Surveys in Your Course

    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...
  5. Tips for Giving Meaningful Feedback

    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...
  6. Top 6 Ways To See How Your Students are Doing

    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 ...
  7. How To Collect Handwritten Student Work

    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 ...
  8. Top 4 Tips for Running a Large Class Over Zoom

    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...
  9. Ways to Assess and Evaluate Your Discussions

    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...
  10. How to Use Your Canvas Site and Why It Matters

    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...