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  1. Computer Tech Check and Speed Test

    Computer minimum specifications: Windows and Macintosh 2GHz or faster processor, 8GB or more of RAM Please maintain an up-to-date operating system and web browser We do NOT support: Taking courses on mobile devices Linux/Chromebook Beta ve...
  2. Using Polls for Student Engagement

    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,
  3. 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, and assign gra...
  4. 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...
  5. AI and Teaching and Learning: Some Resources

    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 it, some are cautio...
  6. Canvas Inbox

    Easily, privately and securely correspond with your students with Canvas Inbox. * Note: You and your students should make sure  Canvas notification preferences  are set properly to receive a copy of the email to your personal email addresses.  ...
  7. Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Engaging Diverse Learners

    UDL:   a framework to make learning accessible for all types of learners through multiple means of representation, action and expression, and engagement.  Unpacking the UDL Framework to Provide Multiple Means of: 1.  Engagement:  W...
  8. Canvas Scheduler

    Canvas Scheduler is part of the calendar and creates appointment groups (collection of individual appointments) that students can sign up for. You may use it to:  create office hours  schedule TA sessions  assign presentation times and host oth...
  9. Resources

    IDN Home Page  Opening Remarks  Resources  Opening Remarks: Teaching & Online Learning at DCE  Facilitators:  Henry Leitner & Adrienne Phelps-Coco Resource 1:   Slides for Opening Remarks   Resource 2:  Video ...
  10. Syllabus Language Sets the Tone for Your Course

    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 not o...