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  1. The HELIX/Hyflex Classroom Experience

    DCE has designed HELIX/Hyflex Classrooms to allow remote students to use Zoom to interact with you and your on-campus students during class in real time.  In addition, the classes are recorded so a third set of students can watch the recordings at t...
  2. Engaging Students in Your HELIX/Hyflex Classroom

    Equal Access for All Students The goal is to make all 3 groups of students--asynchronous, Zoom attendees and those in the physical classroom--all feel that they are part of the same community, with equal opportunity to learn and contribute to the c...
  3. 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...
  4. Inclusive Practice Fellow

    Inclusive_Practice_Fellow.pdf
  5. Tips for Organizing Your Course Site

    Organizing your Site Empowers You & Your Students.   Consistency is KEY! Setting expectations and keeping to it. Communicating effectively Delete old files Create folders Use Canvas Pages for assigned reading and non-term bound content...
  6. IDN Home Page About the Facilitators Cortney Leigh Cox Instructional Technology Support Consultant  Session:   Turn Students Into Instructors & Curators: Improve Group Work with Interactive Tools Drop-In Booth  (In-...
  7. Creating a Sandbox Site with a Basic Instructure Canvas Account

    We cannot create course sites before the Extension and Summer Schools have set up the course catalog and registrar system.  You can create a sandbox site yourself by setting up an outside Instructure Canvas account and build out things ther...
  8. Teaching in Zoom for 3 Hours

    1) Incorporate Active Learning (Interweave active learning with your lecture for peer interaction) Simple Activities  Polls Think-pair-share via breakout rooms  Student mini-presentations Bigger Activities Debates and...
  9. Content & Lecturing

    Choosing Your Content  Learning to Know:  Acquisition + development of skills Learning to Do:  Use of skills in one’s career Learning to Live Together: Development of values and teamwork skills Learning to Be:  Self-anal...
  10. Assessments & Feedback

    Formative + Summative Assessments & Feedback:  helps your students build on their work and understand how their work connects with the larger picture of the class 1a) Formative Assessment:  evaluates learning throughout the course (typically lo...