Course Delivery

1. Create opportunities for students to share questions or comments about the materials assigned for each class.
2. Embed opportunities for student discussion.
3. Create opportunities for students to engage with the class content in a way that relates to their own experiences.

Teaching Guide: Discussion Boards & Active Student Engagement.

1. Introduce yourself and share some personal information to allow students to connect with the instructor.
2. Create opportunities for students to introduce themselves at the beginning of a course.
3. Create opportunities for students to share their learning goals.

Teaching Guide: Self-Awareness and Positionality

Teaching Guide: Classroom Climate & Environment

1. Implement opportunities for civic and community engagement. 
2. Identify connections between course materials/learning outcomes and practical uses in the discipline or profession.
3. Teach course materials and skills through case studies.
4. Utilize gamification as a teaching practice.
5. Allow students to demonstrate their learning through practical application.

Teaching Guide: Active and Experiential Learning

Teaching Guide: Teaching with Case Studies

Teaching Guide:Teaching Climate Change

Consider using the following Canvas tools for assessing learning and communicate with your students:

1. Use New Analytics to contact students who have not interacted with the course materials or have missed classes.
2. Message students directly from the Gradebook about their performance or about missing assignments.
3. Utilize rubrics to clarify expectations for each assignment and align them with learning outcomes.
4. Use the Speedgrader to grade individual and/or group work.
5. Use the Learning Mastery Gradebook to check student performances in relation to learning outcomes.

New Analytics(opens in new window)

Send a message to students from the Gradebook(opens in new window)

Rubrics(opens in new window)

Gradebook/SpeedGrader(opens in new window)

Learning Mastery Gradebook(opens in new window)

1. Create assignments or activities that allow students to work collaboratively and learn from each other.
2. Define specific roles/duties within the group, so each student is clear about their responsibilities.
3. Identify specific criteria for group work vs. individual work evaluation.
4. Consider implementing peer evaluations for collaborative work.

Teaching Guide: Meaningful Group Work

Group Work in Online Learning (Google Slide)

Using Groups Functionality in Canvas(opens in new window)