Clara Noomah

Instructional Designer STEM Development Lead

Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Proactive Measures to Help Students with Post-COVID Mental Health Issues

An N-95 mask hidden amongst fall leaves.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a massive increase in students requesting disability accommodations. Explore the data behind this trend, and learn what the UAF Disability Services office recommends to make your class more accessible.

Clara Noomah
April 30, 2024

Teaching Tips

Unlocking the Potential of Students as Partners

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Meaningful and equal collaboration between students and instructors can be a transformative experience for both parties, but achieving that goal often seems elusive. This teaching tip explores the possibilities of pedagogical partnership programs as one tool to build successful partnerships in the context of the UAF Center for Teaching and Learning's LEAP program.

Clara Noomah
April 16, 2024

Presentations & Events, The MILL

Fiber Arts Afternoons

A new drop-in fiber arts meet-up every Thursday afternoon from 2-4 PM. Come explore the parallels between handiwork and academic work and reflect on the practices of learning, teaching, and mentoring that they share.

Clara Noomah
March 14, 2024

Best practices (tips), Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Student Advice for Designing Your Best Course Yet

After four semesters of engaging UAF students and faculty in the LEAP program, several insightful bits of advice on course design are presented from the student point of view.

Clara Noomah
December 12, 2023

Best practices (tips), RSI, Teaching Tips

Some perspective on the new UAF RSI checklist

A diagram showing the four aspects of RSI as interlocking puzzle pieces

This teaching tip serves as an introduction to the concept of Regular and Substantive Interactions, part of new Federal regulations concerning online education, and offers helpful and specific advice to instructors who are looking to transform their current course into one that not only meets the new regulations, but also increases student success, all while being efficient with the instructor's time.

Clara Noomah
October 17, 2023

Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Create accessible content in Google Drive using Grackle Suite

[This article is an update on a 2019 Teaching Tip by Janene McMahan. People at the University of Alaska have been using Grackle for over 3 years now, but the interface has changed a bit since the original article was…

Clara Noomah
June 21, 2022

Inclusive Practice, Teaching Tips

Options for captioning course content

Auto-generated captions use a speech-to-text engine to transcribe audio. They have greatly improved over the past few years and are usually 90-95% accurate given clear audio quality, a Standard American English accent, and one speaker speaking at a time. However,…

Clara Noomah
May 24, 2022

Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Communicating to students as UAF adopts Canvas

Both Blackboard and Canvas will be in use this semester. Learn what the university is doing to help students have a smooth semester start, and make your own communication plan.

Clara Noomah
August 9, 2021

Best practices (tips), Canvas, Teaching Tips

Understanding content organization in Canvas

Content organization functions differently in Canvas than it does in Blackboard. Students will easily learn to navigate your course when you thoughtfully design how your content is presented.

Clara Noomah
May 10, 2021

Best practices (tips), Teaching Tips

How accessibility happens at UAF

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Learn how disability accommodations work at UAF in a new series hosted by UAF Disability Services, the UA Human Resources ADA office and UAF CTL.

Clara Noomah
March 8, 2021

#facdev Session or Workshop, Presentations & Events

Accessibility at UAF: Understanding our accommodations processes

Spring Break Series: March 8th-11th,1:00-2:00pm “UA is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu” You have almost certainly seen this tagline – it’s at the bottom of every university website and publication. But…

Clara Noomah
February 26, 2021

Best practices (tips), Teaching Tips

Is your course organized?

There is no one right way to organize a course, but there are some basic principles that will help students navigate and stay on path.

Clara Noomah
July 10, 2020