UAF CTL Staff

Presentations & Events

Teaching Writing in the STEM Classroom

Writing is a Process Learning to write well takes years. Accept the fact that students in your classroom are at wildly varying places along the path to being a good writer. Rather than teaching them to master grammar and spelling,…

UAF CTL Staff
March 7, 2018

Designer Perspectives, Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Help students use Google Scholar for research

Google Scholar is a tool students can use to search for peer-reviewed articles, court opinions and patents. It connects to the UAF Rasmuson Library database to make finding full-text articles easy.

Presentations & Events

Student feedback

In this presentation we talked about strategies for giving feedback, identifying tools to support your efforts and what quality feedback might mean for you and for your students. Presentation slides and recording links provided.

UAF CTL Staff
March 1, 2018

Presentations & Events

Data Visualization

UAF CTL Staff
February 20, 2018

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Hello? Use phone calls to connect with students

We’re at a point in the semester when energy gets low. Students have gotten quiet on discussion boards, you’ve got grading to last you the rest of winter and winter isn’t near over yet. It can be hard to keep everyone engaged in your work together, but making a simple phone call could make a big difference.

UAF CTL Staff
February 16, 2018

Teaching Tips

Spark student communication with Flipgrid

In the experience of teaching online, we often miss the lively nature of a classroom discussion. The asynchronous nature of discussion boards don’t replicate this well. Flipgrid is a relatively new tool that solves part of this problem through structured video-based discussions.

UAF CTL Staff
February 9, 2018

Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Color code your Blackboard Grade Center

The Blackboard Grade Center can be a powerful tool to manage the grades in your course, and to stay on top of students that may need a little extra help. It can be especially useful in courses with a large number of students. Read this week’s Teaching Tip to learn more.

UAF CTL Staff
February 2, 2018

Presentations & Events

Blackboard weight grades

The presentation: The recording (through Bb Collaborate)

UAF CTL Staff
January 25, 2018

Best practices, Blackboard, Teaching Tips

New Box View replaces Crocodoc for inline grading

As of this month when your students turn in programming code and graphics inside of Blackboard you can use the New Box View inline grading tool to view the code and add comments to the images. If you previously used Crocodoc to quickly view spreadsheets or papers inside of the Blackboard Grade Center, you’ll find the expanded list of supported file types a breath of fresh air!

UAF CTL Staff
January 21, 2018

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Use infographics to build community and critical thinking

A person sitting at a laptop displaying a selection of chart types to use to display data.

Use data from an introductory activity to create an infographic to share cohort information and build community in a course. This can show students how they might use infographics as a method to demonstrate critical thinking skills based on the results of their own research.

UAF CTL Staff
January 11, 2018

Blackboard

Blackboard CTL Template Course Shell

UAF CTL has created a Blackboard template that can be used as a starting place for those developing an online course. The template is based on best practices for higher education online students. The template navigation contains standard areas for…

UAF CTL Staff
January 4, 2018

EPIC

Introductions: A List

For our first activity in EPIC this semester, we’d like to get to know you as a teacher. We’d like to know not just what you teach, but how and why you teach. And what better way to learn about…

UAF CTL Staff
December 25, 2017