Teaching Topics

Browse our growing repository of teaching topics to learn more about best practices for planning your courses, choosing teaching strategies, supporting your students and more.

Investigate key considerations for course planning, including the basics of course and assessment design, online course quality, academic integrity, and more.

A Positive Approach to Academic Integrity

Learn how to take a proactive, rather than punitive, approach to academic integrity in your courses.

Creating and Adapting Assignments for Online Courses

Explore strategies for creating or adapting effective assignments for online courses.

Designing Assessments of Student Learning

Explore best practices for planning thoughtful and effective assessments of student learning.

Designing Research or Inquiry-Based Assignments

These guiding questions and considerations will help you design meaningful research assignments.

Policies for Online Teaching

Learn how state, federal, and university policies can help orient your teaching regardless of course modality.

Strategies and Tools for Academic Integrity in Online Environments

Learn how to take a multifaceted approach to academic integrity in your online courses.

Teaching Online: Effective Practices

Explore key practices for building and teaching your online course.

Universal Design for Learning

Understand how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can improve the learning experience for all of your students.

Use available tools and resources to build your course content and create a student-friendly learning environment.

Best Practices for Recording Lecture Videos

Creating effective and engaging lecture videos is easy with the right tools and strategies.

Carmen Common Sense: Best Practices

Learn how to apply Carmen Common Sense, ten student-authored suggestions for a student-friendly course.

Copyright Best Practices for Teaching and Learning

Navigate complex copyright issues with these best practices for in-person and online classes.

Online and Hybrid Syllabus Template Instructions

Download and customize a syllabus template for your online or hybrid course.

Explore strategies and best practices for delivering effective and engaging instruction, both in-person and online.

Digital Flagship: A Common Technology for Teaching and Learning

Understand the Digital Flagship initiative and explore basic approaches to leveraging students’ iPads in your course.

Facilitating Discussion

Learn strategies for planning and facilitating meaningful class discussions in face-to-face and online contexts.

High-Impact Practices: Enhancing the Student Experience

Learn about high-impact practices (HIPs), how they benefit students, and key elements to consider when integrating HIPs into your courses.

Implementing Peer Review in Your Course

Learn why peer review is beneficial and how to design a successful peer review activity.

Keep Teaching

Explore strategies to keep teaching during emergencies or temporary interruptions to traditional instruction.

Online Instructor Presence

Learn how to be there for your online students, including strategies for communication, support, and feedback.

Student Interaction Online

Explore best practices for fostering meaningful student-student interaction in your online course.

Transitioning to a Virtual Lab

Explore resources and tools for converting from in-person to virtual labs.

Foster a welcoming and inclusive classroom community and provide the resources and support your students need to succeed.

Calling in Classroom Conflict

Turn moments of classroom conflict and tension into generative learning opportunities by adopting the practice of “calling in.”

Creating an Inclusive Environment in CarmenZoom

Foster student participation in synchronous class meetings with these strategies for creating inclusive CarmenZoom spaces.

Helping Students Write Across the Disciplines

Explore strategies to support students as they learn to write across different disciplines.

Information Literacy: Concepts and Teaching Strategies

Learn core information literacy concepts and explore teaching strategies to incorporate them into your courses.

Shaping a Positive Learning Environment

Learn how to foster a learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and supportive of all students.

Supporting Student Learning in Your Course

Learn how to intentionally support your students, and why this is especially important in online courses.

Manage the daily work of teaching and develop professional skills through documentation, evaluation, and reflection.

Instructor Peer Review of Teaching in Online Classes

Learn how to evaluate teaching in online courses and download an example peer review rubric.