Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Community and Disciplinary Teaching Resources

We are not alone.

The University Teaching Center is available and will do its best to answer questions.  Blackboard Learn is the primary Learning Management System (LMS) used for online, blended, and web-assisted courses at The University of Toledo. All courses automatically get a Blackboard course site with your students enrolled in it. You also can access Blackboard via the link in the MyUT Portal.

Visual Literacy - Help your students learn to develop clear visual depictions of complex ideas using the Infographics Module from the Visual Literacy Initiative. You can use as-is or customize it for your discipline. Get access to more online modules on different topics here: https://www.utoledo.edu/honors/visual-literacy/modules.html

• • Infographics Guide Module - Instructor
  • Infographics Guide Module - Student

Dr. Anthony Edgington, Director of Composition, has created the following resource for teaching writing. It includes a number of strategies and tools useful not only for composition teachers, for any instructor asking students to execute online writing. Dr. Edgington is updating this regularly, so check back often: https://www.utoledo.edu/al/english/programs/composition/onlineresources.html

The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) released a set of new, free resources — ACUE’s Online Teaching Resources — that can be immediately put to use to make this transition a smoother one for both instructors and their students.

The Chronicle for Higher Ed offers these resources:

• • Moving Online Now: How to keep teaching during coronavirus
    This comprehensive document includes compiled resources from numerous higher education institutions for teaching online and emergency preparedness as well as links to useful teaching strategies such as how to use Perusall (a free online collaborative annotation tool), Zoom (a collaboration tool that includes video and/or audio conferencing, webinars and chat) and so much more, including a Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository.

  • ‘We Can’t Ignore This Issue’: How to Talk With Students About Racism

Faculty Focus offers several free resources for online teaching and setting up your first online course.

• • Top 10 Rules for Developing Your First Online Course
  • Online Student Engagement and Strategies

Tomorrow's Professor - A Tool Kit for Online Instructors

University of Florida's Center for Technology and Training: Peer Review Online and Sample Assignments

Alternative Educational Delivery Methods

In case of disruptive events that prevent students and staff from meeting face-to-face, learning institutions are developing instructional continuity plans to move the classroom online (examples below):

• • Fordham University, Teach Anywhere
  • Indiana University, Keep Teaching
  • New York University, Remote Instruction Support
  • New York University Shanghai, Digital Teaching Toolkit
  • Penn State, Continuity of Instruction
  • Remote Teaching Resources for Business Continuity (This document was originally developed based on contributions from professionals on the POD Network listserv)
  • Stanford University, Teach Anywhere
  • University of Delaware, Course Continuity
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison: Accessibility and Accommodation
  • Virginia Community Colleges, Get Online Fast
  • Virginia Tech, Continuity of Instruction

A great comprehensive collection of resources for faculty as they prepare to teach online is the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness website, which provides a number of resources and initiatives to support efforts in moving courses to an online format when emergency situations arise.

• • American University has provided resources on Transforming a face-to-face course into an online course
  • Brown University has provided some resources on Inclusive Approaches to Support Student Assignments During Times of Disruption
  • Teaching Through Disruption, provided by Boston College, will help faculty get ready, prepare quickly and explore teaching options.
  • California State University has some excellent Academic Technology Resources and Emergency Remote Teaching Guidelines

  • Harvard offers some insights on best practices and tools for teaching your classes online and Lafayette has information on some useful strategies and resources including Google Meet and Online Whiteboards on their site.