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  1. Engagement and Community In Your Course

    Basic Ways to Build Community The earlier you start, the better the outcome will be Set the tone: How formal/informal do you want the conversations to be?  In any discussion or assignment prompts, write the way you’d like your studen...
  2. Getting Ready for Your First Class

    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 ...
  3. Doing Groupwork Online

    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 gr...
  4. 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 disciplinary j...
  5. 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 ill...
  6. 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 syll...
  7. 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...
  8. 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  prepare a poll i...
  9. 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 onlin...
  10. 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 and spontaneousl...