Faculty Resources and Support
Designing and Planning your Course
The first step is to start conceptualizing your course:
- Review the selected articles and resources to help you think about the affordances and constraints of online learning.
- Use the Course Planning and Design tools to help you organize your planning and prepare to design your online course:
- Course Profile (doc)
- Learning Objectives Table (doc)
- Review this brief video on getting started with designing your course.
Building and Developing your Course
With your planning tools in place, it is time to start developing and implementing your course. Support, tools, and resources are available:
- Review this video on starting to build and develop your course
- Attend workshops
- Explore educational resources
- Learn more about how to use Blackboard
- Learn how to create accessible course materials
Need more assistance with Blackboard? You can contact your Blackboard support team, or enroll in additional Blackboard training, including an option for instructors affiliated with the University to self-enroll in a Blackboard Ultra course to guide you through features and functions of the platform.
Tools for Teaching with Technology
There are several different tools managed by University IT that can help your online teaching experience run smoothly:
- Blackboard: Learning management system
- Panopto: Video hosting and streaming
- Zoom: Asynchronous multimedia interaction
- VoiceThread: Asynchronous multimedia interaction
- Padlet: Web-based shared bulletin board for collaboration
- Qwickly: Attendance and other course support tools
- GradeScope: Assessment
- Poll Everywhere: Personal Response System to facilitate live interaction
- Perusall: Document annotation and collaboration tool
- LabArchives: Electronic lab notebook system