Teaching Tips

Academic integrity in online and hybrid courses is just as important as it is in face-to-face class environments. USU provides several options to help you foster academic integrity in all varieties of the online classroom.

Resources for teachers on active learning and how to promote active learning in their students.

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

Resources for teachers on what is blended learning and how to blend their course.

An introduction to Canvas course accessibility with resources for teachers to make their courses more accessible.

Tools and tips for teaches to make their online course more usable and accessible to make learning easier for all students in the classroom.

Resources for teachers on classroom polling systems to help increase engagement, gauge prior knowledge, assess learning, and create opportunities for students to interact and learn from each other.

PDF files are difficult to view on mobile devices and are generally inaccessible to students with disabilities. We now have some tools that make it possible to convert PDF files in your course to more usable and accessible Canvas pages.

No matter where you are embedding a video, whether for a Discussion, Announcement, Page, or Assignment, the best way to embed a video in your Canvas course is through your My Media repository.

Establish expectations for assignment completion, due dates, grading, engagement, workload, and any other key factors for your particular course.

Discussion forums have the potential to be the most valuable learning opportunity in online environments. Here are some strategies for facilitating online discussions.

Tips for conducting a fishbowl activity in a live class. Modifications for connect and online classes are provided.

This page describes methods for addressing potential grading issues when using the Canvas gradebook.

Video resources and external links for teachers on flipping the classroom to help them maximize student engagement during class time.

A description and examples of formative assessments used to monitor student learning.

Tips, ideas, and projects for utilizing group or teamwork to add some great opportunities for student engagement.

An IVC-Zoom integration has been provided in IVC Broadcast courses to allow any student, regardless of reason, to attend IVC classes using Zoom from a place of their choosing.

Resources for teachers on how to implement academic integrity for your classrooms and online courses.

Steps and facts for what instructors can do to engage with their students and improve communication in their online courses.

A description of a jigsaw activity that engages students by getting them to participate in cooperative learning.

Tips for managing in-person classes with forty or more students enrolled in them.

Laboratory experiences in higher education cover a wide range of configurations, intended outcomes, and locations. This page is intended to direct you to ideas and resources you can use to plan your lab experience.

Instructions for setting up office hours via Zoom, so you can include the meeting ID in your syllabus, an announcement, or Canvas homepage.

A quick checklist to help teachers ensure their online courses offered at Utah State University are ready to go.

Procedures and FAQs for teachers on topics like how to report course materials prior to classes, how to submit grades, FERPA, copyright, and other issues.

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

If you teach a general education course, you have likely been asked to assess whether students are meeting specific outcomes. Canvas can make the reporting of those outcomes easier. There are two ways to measure the outcomes.

Tips and best practices for recording lectures and using media in the online classroom. Practical guidelines for teachers to create a professional media product.

A variety of circumstances might require you to temporarily deliver your class online with minimal notice. This guide provides you suggested actions to take quickly when making the shift from teaching in a land-based classroom to teaching anywhere.

Use rubrics and outcomes to help students understand assignment requirements. Resources for Canvas tutorials regarding rubrics.

Basic information about self-regulation as it pertains to student learning to help instructors in course planning.

Not only do you no longer need to convert your files to PDF format, there are even advantages to sharing files in their original format!

By default, Canvas adds several extra menu items to your course that you are probably not using that make it difficult for students to find the resources that you are using.

Purpose of and conducting a Socratic Seminar in place of a standard lecture for in-person, connect, hybrid, and virtual courses.

A description of summative assessments and how they are used to evaluate student learning.

Resources for teachers regarding syllabus development including a general syllabus outline and instructions for creating a syllabus in Canvas.

A description of how to do a think, pair, share activity to encourage class participation for in-person, connect, hybrid, and virtual classes.

If you are teaching online temporarily, the work you put in now will still have long-term benefits. Teaching online can facilitate flipping the classroom.

Helpful information to create instructional videos using equipment you probably already have at home.

A checklist and tips for teachers on teaching web broadcast delivery of courses.