Teaching Tips

Accessibility is an essential to keep in mind as you put your material online and provides a better experience for everyone.

Using active learning strategies in your course can help your students achieve better learning outcomes.

Get the online application/checklist for faculty who wish to teach a course as Blended.

Increase engagement, gauge prior knowledge, assess learning, and create opportunities for students to interact.

Provide instruction that students can review before class, then use in-class time for students to engage with the content and ask questions.

Use Canvas to measure whether students are meeting specific outcomes for your general education course.

Incentivize students to pay attention, reflect on their learning, and share it with their peers.

Take steps to support a culture of academic integrity and ethical decision-making in our students.

Moving a class fully online, "flipping" your class, or providing student access to a lecture you gave in class? Here are a few options...

For the latest information on the course development processes and policies, see the USU online site.

Download the online course quality rubric measure your course against USU standards for teaching online.

This reference page is intended to point you in the right direction on several common procedural issues and questions.

Get ideas and resources you can use to plan your lab experience.

Tips to accomplish your course goals without meeting in person.

Chose instructional strategies that reduce cognitive load and make it easier for students to participate and pay attention.

Get a list of items that are generally included in a university syllabus to establish rules of engagement for your course.

Get the online teaching checklist & self-enroll in the online teacher training course.

These courses meet synchronously at scheduled classtimes entirely through a web conferencing platform, such as Zoom.

These courses meet synchronously at scheduled classtimes, while some students participate remotely via Zoom.

Traditional face-to-face classes meet together, in person, at the same time, and in the same classroom.

Find simple tasks that you can do to make your course content more usable, inclusive, and accessible for all students in your classroom.

Get help with classroom technology, lecture recording, classroom scheduling, closed captions, and more.