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Created On: 10/27/2023
in Faculty Dev. 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 syll...
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Created On: 10/27/2023
in Faculty Dev. 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...
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Created On: 10/27/2023
in Faculty Dev. 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 prepare a poll i...
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Created On: 10/27/2023
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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 onlin...
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Created On: 10/27/2023
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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 and spontaneousl...
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Created On: 10/27/2023
in Faculty Dev. 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...
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Created On: 10/27/2023
in Faculty Dev. 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, and assign gra...
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Created On: 10/05/2023
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Teaching Your Asynchronous Students At Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education, we have courses in which all online students are synchronous and a few courses with all asynchronous students. We also have courses that have both asynchrono...
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Created On: 10/02/2023
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Updated May 2024 Stay informed! Zoom continuously adds and changes features and Harvard's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) often updates policies and procedures. Even if you taught last semester, there's a possibility that things hav...
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Created On: 10/02/2023
in Web Conference If you've used Zoom to teach at another Harvard School, or another institution, you'll notice we do some things a bit differently here. Even if you have taught at DCE, policies and procedures are continuously evolving. Here's where you can learn h...