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  1. 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...
  2. Agenda

    IDW Home Page Agenda: Online Sessions from Jan 8 – Jan 12   By participating in a workshop, you are acknowledging the following video release form   Complete the anonymous feedback survey after attending a workshop (1 survey form p...
  3. Using Your Course Evaluations

    Resources Evaluations RX is a DCE Teaching and Learning team resource that lays out the major questions of student evaluations and gives suggestions on ways to improve their course. Vanderbilt University also has a great "Student Evaluation"...
  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. 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 spontaneously ...
  6. 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 th...
  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 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. 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...
  10. Gather for Zoom on Your Canvas Site

    Using Gather LTI for Zoom Gather is a tool developed at DCE to manage our web conference courses.  It makes the integration of Canvas and Zoom seamless for users. What Gather Does Provides a secure pathway to bring you to your Zoom classroom ...