As your gradebook (“Grades” in your course navigation) grows over the course of the quarter, you may find yourself looking for ways to more effectively manage and work within your Canvas gradebook. Read more in the Northwestern Canvas Post, which Northwestern’s Teaching and Learning Technologies Office provides.
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Curious about how to use creative visuals while also facilitating an accessible course? Quality Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to quality course management, recently discussed use of visuals and how students of all types and with different types of needs use them. Effective use of visuals can greatly improve a student’s learning experience. Review Principles
As a MSHE instructor, we value your commitment to teaching! Through this commitment, you have access to faculty resources and support through the Office of the Provost at Northwestern University. Explore Faculty Resources through the Provost’s Office
Explore free instructional technology events offered by the Northwestern IT Teaching and Learning Technologies Office! Upcoming Teaching and Learning Technologies Events at Northwestern If you have any questions about events in this area, you may contact Vicky Getis, director of Teaching and Learning Technologies at Northwestern University.
Explore free instructional training opportunities through Northwestern University’s Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching! Upcoming Searle Center training events If you have any questions regarding these events, you may contact Susie Calkins, director of faculty initiatives at Searle.
Graduate school is a time when students choose to engage in topics they enjoy or are at least intrigued about learning. This commitment often comes with managing busy work, academic, and personal lives. When you add the uncertainty of an ongoing pandemic, building relationships and trust with students is paramount to successful teaching and learning.
Northwestern University’s Office of the Provost and Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching have released Northwestern’s Principles of Inclusive Teaching. Inclusive teaching refers to pedagogy that strives to serve the needs of all students, regardless of their backgrounds or identities, and to support their engagement with subject material. This may include strategies such as
Join HR WELL and Ellen Burton for this Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) workshop open to faculty and staff. The workshop will focus on current emotional states, including discussion of survivor’s guilt, grief and feelings of powerlessness, a framework to help you identify where your power lies and how to leverage it by understanding what
Join faculty and staff from across Northwestern as they share overviews and instructional ideas for educational technology tools at the Fall Tools Fair next Tuesday, October 19, from 3:30-5 p.m. CT. Drop in to hear about a specific tool or stay for the entire session. This year, we’ll look at VoiceThread, Markdown and Google Docs,
Join Dr. Monica Flippin Wynn, senior assistant vice president at The Gardner Institute, and guest speakers for a series of conversations centered on college teaching, learning, student success, and all aspects of higher education. The series includes frank conversations about equity, social justice, and the current climate in higher education and will engage higher education