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Teaching Tips

Enhancing Connection and Flexibility: Integrating Optional Synchronous Sessions into Asynchronous Online Courses

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While many courses at UAF are offered and listed as asynchronous, nothing prevents the incorporation of optional synchronous sessions. This teaching tip offers advice on a variety of different kinds of synchronous activities that you might consider as adding to your course as supplemental ways for students to connect with each other, you, and the content.

Zach Cureton-Hazard
April 3, 2024

Canvas, Presentations & Events

Canvas Foundations: Grading and Feedback

This sessission was held 12 October 2023, from 1000-1130. Led by an Instructure (Canvas) trainer, this session will cover how to create and apply rubrics, how to give feedback and grades using SpeedGrader, and the various customizations you can create…

UAF CTL Staff
September 20, 2023

Canvas, Presentations & Events

Canvas Foundations: Data and Analytics

This session was held 18 October 2023, from 1000-1130. Led by an Instructure (Canvas) trainer, this session will cover how to access and understand the data available to instructors about student access, interactions, and communications as well as generalized statistics about…

UAF CTL Staff
September 20, 2023

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Dealing with AI generated academic dishonesty from a policy and teaching perspective

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Claiming the work of others, even that which is generated by an AI, as your own, is academic dishonesty. This Teaching Tip will help you face this problem head on and provide solid strategies for helping you and your students navigate an increasingly difficult environment.

Dan LaSota
May 19, 2023
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Teaching Tips

Inviting nonviolent communication in the classroom

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How do you have productive classroom conversations, especially on contentious topics, in the age of burnout and social media echo chambers? In response to this challenge, some educators are looking to nonviolent communication, a framework for open and honest dialogue…

Elle Fournier
July 25, 2022

Teaching Tips

Strategies for the first six weeks of class

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As we start a new semester, let’s focus on how we, as faculty, can better support students. Whether they’re just out of high school or an adult learner, research shows that the first six weeks of a college term are…

UAF CTL Staff
January 20, 2022

Community Seminar

Managing Interactions in Synchronous Online Sessions

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As many of us have transitioned to online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic, many are wondering how to engage students in this new context. Watch Wendy Martelle and Sabine Siekmann (LING) for tips on keeping your Zoom sessions and online…

UAF CTL Staff
November 11, 2020

Community Engagement, Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Try class agendas

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An agenda creates transparency in the classroom. If these are qualities you strive for in your teaching, consider these principles for creating open class agendas.

klnewman4
March 31, 2019

Best practices, Teaching Tips

Recommendations for managing an online classroom

New to online teaching? Your peers can help. This week’s Teaching Tip features recommendations from experienced online instructors on how to manage online classrooms. Best tip? Use the “Set Grade Center Due Dates' screen under Course Management > Course Tools to update all your due dates at once.

UAF CTL Staff
January 20, 2016

Teaching Tips, Tools and how to (tips)

Appointment slots

Having students sign up for individual appointments has become easier with the Create Appointment option in Google Calendar. Creating a group of available time slots can be very useful for your students, graduate assistants, staff, and colleagues.

UAF CTL Staff
January 7, 2014