Teaching and Learning Design Studio

This one-pager provides questions for faculty to ask students, fostering empowerment and self-reflection to enhance mutual understanding.

This one-pager offers strategies for engaging students in larger settings.

This one-pager provides strategies for teaching non-majors by encouraging educators to understand students' interests and goals, integrate interdisciplinary approaches, make course content relevant to students' lives and future careers, and foster a supportive and engaging learning environment.

This one-pager offers guidelines for balancing affirmation and critique in educational settings, suggesting that critiques should focus on the artwork rather than the artist, employ empathic approaches to foster constructive feedback, and encourage students to reflect on and control their responses to critiques to enhance their creative development.

This one-pager outlines best practices for creating accessible Canvas course sites, emphasizing the importance of clear organization, using accessibility features in content formatting, and ensuring that all multimedia elements are accessible to students with various disabilities, such as visual impairments and the need for enhanced visual clarity.

This one-pager offers practical self-care strategies for educators, encouraging the creation of a personalized self-care plan, incorporating physical movement, setting realistic goals, sharing personal boundaries with students, and utilizing campus resources to maintain well-being and manage work-life balance effectively.

This one-pager provides effective grading strategies for large classes, including utilizing digital tools for formative assessments, creating a grading shorthand to streamline feedback, crafting authentic multiple-choice questions, planning an assessment calendar for better pacing, and considering various grading scales to enhance efficiency and maintain work-life balance.

This one-pager emphasizes the importance of creating accessible documents by using Microsoft applications' built-in accessibility checker, which evaluates and helps improve the formatting for visual and screen-reading accessibility. It highlights features like meaningful alt-text, properly tagged tables, and sufficient contrast, offering guidance on fixing issues to enhance readability for students with visual impairments or other accessibility needs.

This one-pager introduces the application of design thinking to mentorship, guiding mentors through the process of empathizing with mentees, defining key inquiries, ideating strategies, prototyping solutions, and testing these solutions in real-world scenarios to enhance the effectiveness of their mentoring relationships.

This one-pager explores the concept of flexible deadlines in academic settings, defining them as policies that provide students with some autonomy over assignment submission times without negatively affecting their learning or grades. It discusses the benefits such policies offer to diverse student needs, including those with disabilities and extra responsibilities, and provides tips for faculty on implementing and managing flexible deadlines effectively.

This one-pager outlines Design Thinking as a user-centered, iterative process for problem solving that begins with deep empathy and understanding of users' needs, moves through a chaotic ideation phase to develop a variety of solutions, and proceeds with prototyping and testing to refine and implement the most effective solution. It emphasizes gathering insights through research, redefining problems based on these insights, and continually iterating towards the best possible outcome.

This one-pager provides an overview of the "New Quiz" tool in Canvas, which serves as an alternative to the "Classic Quiz" tool with added functionalities like improved printing options and new question types. It clarifies that switching to New Quizzes is optional, details the process for converting from Classic Quizzes, and assures ongoing support for users adapting to this tool.

This one-pager challenges the traditional chronological teaching of history, suggesting alternative approaches like thematic and inquiry-based units to enhance understanding and engagement. It discusses the benefits of chronological teaching for building foundational knowledge, but also highlights thematic teaching to connect disparate historical events under unified themes, and inquiry-based units that encourage deeper exploration through essential questions.

This one-pager compares the functionalities and uses of Zoom and Microsoft Teams for meetings and collaborative sessions, emphasizing that the choice depends on the meeting's purpose and user preference. Zoom is highlighted as user-friendly and ideal for simple video conferencing, while Teams is noted for its advanced collaboration tools within an existing Microsoft ecosystem, suited for ongoing group work with features like file sharing and integrated office tools.

This one-pager discusses the nuanced approach to assessing student participation in higher education, emphasizing the importance of clarity in the reasons for including participation as part of the grading system.

This one-pager provides tips for soliciting student feedback at the midpoint of the semester.

This one-pager provides tips for teaching with clarity.

This one-pager helps faculty reflect on their late work and /or zero grade policies.

This one-pager shares the advantages of open education resources and how faculty can access them via our High Library.

This one-pagers shares information about how faculty and instructional staff can engage with High Library resources.