Alternative Assessment Options for Remote Instruction

Alternative Assessment Options for Remote Instruction

Using Canvas quizzes, you can create assessments similar to what you may have given in a face-to-face class. However, there are other forms of assessment that focus on students producing knowledge and then sharing that knowledge with their classmates. Explore some...

Audio-Visual Home Set-Up

Audio-Visual Home Set-Up

Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Everyone is going to have a different set-up that they are teaching from. This post, with ideas from AJ Barse, is here to help you...

Best Practices for Creating Online Quizzes and Exams

Best Practices for Creating Online Quizzes and Exams

Explore Best Practices for Creating Online Quizzes and Exams for ideas for designing online quizzes and exams using the tools available at Western. This guide includes the following topics: How to Design a Quiz or Survey Accessibility & Moderating Quizzes...

Building a Wiki Page in Canvas

Building a Wiki Page in Canvas

by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Getting bored with Discussion boards? Consider having students post to a wiki! A wiki is a website that can be edited by multiple users. Rather than discussion boards, where students reply...

Building Accountability During Breakout Rooms

Building Accountability During Breakout Rooms

by Rebecca Borowski, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, WWU Have you ever popped into a breakout room to check on your students, only to find cameras off, everyone muted, apparently using the time for their own purposes, rather than engaging with each...

Building Trust in an Online Environment

Building Trust in an Online Environment

  Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. One of the many reasons that people decide to go into teaching is because they like working with learners who are often young...

Canvas Quiz Interruptions & Delays

Canvas Quiz Interruptions & Delays

Occasionally, things do not go as planned when quizzes and exams are administered via Canvas. Whether it is an internet outage or personal conflict, getting the assessment back on track may be possible.  Communication when the LMS is down: When unable to contact...

Canvas: Module Basics

Canvas: Module Basics

This video from WWU's Instructional Design Video Library provides an overview of the Modules feature in Canvas: How to add to and organize a module, edit module content, and add prerequisites and requirements to modules. See also: How do I add a module? How do I...

Engagement Activity: Virtual Chalk Talk in Zoom

Engagement Activity: Virtual Chalk Talk in Zoom

Contributed to the TLCo-op by Alina Holmes, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2020. Chalk Talks are an easy way to engage students, soliciting specific responses or having them ask questions about any part of the...

Equity in an Online Classroom

Equity in an Online Classroom

Contributed to the TLCo-op by Emily Gaston, Graduate Research Assistant of the Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment, 2021. COVID-19 drastically altered how society functions, and the education sphere is no exception. Educators have been forced to rewrite...

Equity, Accessibility, & Privacy Considerations

Equity, Accessibility, & Privacy Considerations

For information, guidelines, and policies related to concerns about remote teaching, equity, accessibility, intellectual property, and privacy, explore the ATUS page: Equity, Accessibility, & Privacy Considerations See also: Equity in an Online Classroom Making...

Flexible Teaching, Flexible Learning, Stay Connected

Flexible Teaching, Flexible Learning, Stay Connected

When remote teaching became part of our everyday language, our ATUS and CIIA staff compiled many resource pages to help support teaching and learning. These sites continue to evolve and provide essential resources for the many modalities in which we teach and learn......

iPhone as Your Webcam

iPhone as Your Webcam

If you're hoping to elevate your video call experience by using your iPhone as a webcam, there is currently no native plug-and-play method. Luckily, AJ Barse with Digital Alchemy has put together a few ways to accomplish this:...

Learning: Getting Started with Panopto Video Management at Western

Learning: Getting Started with Panopto Video Management at Western

Members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join this self-enroll Canvas course to learn how you can use Panopto--Western's video management system--to easily create, upload, host, and share videos with your students in Canvas or with any...

Learning: Monday Morning Mentor Canvas Course

Learning: Monday Morning Mentor Canvas Course

Monday Morning Mentor delivers a 20-minute online program each week, addressing some of today’s most important academic issues and teaching strategies. For weekly 20-minute videos and resources, members of the Western community may select “Join this Course” to join...

Learning: TLCo-op Workshops for Faculty

Learning: TLCo-op Workshops for Faculty

The Teaching & Learning Cooperative (TLCo-op) has facilitated workshops to help faculty develop courses for blended/hybrid and online courses every year since 2012. These workshops, sponsored by the Provost, focus on sound design practices and project development....

Logitech Capture

Logitech Capture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMPt_k7TBepdRPXY38rk2sXTYcb1jwYhF&v=t0fmzvVqFzM&feature=emb_imp_woyt Learn more about how to elevate your synchronous video stream or asynchronous recording using your Logitech camera by watching this video by AJ Barse, or...

MacOS: Allowing Screen Recording (System Preferences)

MacOS: Allowing Screen Recording (System Preferences)

Click here to watch a video from the Instructional Design Video Library: MacOS: Allowing Screen Recording (System Preferences). An overview of how to change your Security & Privacy settings in the MacOS to allow applications, such as Zoom, access to your screen so...

Making Your Office Hours Accessible

Making Your Office Hours Accessible

by Deborah Hanuscin, Professor, SMATE and Elementary Education, WWU   As an undergraduate, I never went to office hours– not even once! As a first-generation college student, I had no idea what office hours were for. Thinking back now, while I feel a bit embarrassed...

Netiquette and Best Practices for Online Learning

Netiquette and Best Practices for Online Learning

Incorporating the suggested etiquette for online learning can help everyone be more successful in online courses, in Zoom or Teams video conferencing, or with online collaborative work. DOs & DON’Ts for Online Learning - Suggestions for online learners, compiled...

Online Office Hours in Canvas, Zoom, & Calendly

Online Office Hours in Canvas, Zoom, & Calendly

View the following videos to learn how to set up online office hours via Canvas, Zoom, and Calendly. First, learn how to create and share online office hours for your classes using the Calendar feature in Canvas. See also: How to Setup Online Office Hours (ATUS...

Panopto: A Playlist of WWU Panopto Videos

Panopto: A Playlist of WWU Panopto Videos

Explore the large collection of videos created by instructional designer, Kevin Dixey, and other ATUS staff. These videos may differ from what is shown in Panopto's documentation and better represent the WWU Panopto environment. Panopto is the primary media management...