Category: Teaching Tips

Teaching suggestions, stories and insights from the community.

Managing Your OWN Stress as an Instructor

“The UP Way” of being here for our students is unparalleled. Done with our whole minds, hearts and souls, it can also take quite a toll on us. As we head into the amazing perk of Christmas Break, the Tweet version of this teaching tip is TAKE THE BREAK! The longer version is available in…Continue Reading Managing Your OWN Stress as an Instructor

Tips for Untethered Lecture Capture Rookies

Tips for Untethered Lecture Capture Rookies At a recent TLC brownbag session, 4 faculty members from 4 disciplines shared tips for getting started with “Untethered Lecture Capture,” a tool for using an iPad or tablet to show slides and annotate them in real time during class, while moving around the room. They offered these tips…Continue Reading Tips for Untethered Lecture Capture Rookies

Imagining the World Factfully

UP aims to cultivate world-citizenship in its students. We see this in Vision 2020’s push to foreground opportunities and curricula that support internationalism, our robust study- abroad programs, the 69 Fulbrights students have won, as well as CISGO’s set of outcomes for Global and Intercultural Learning. Part of such student learning depends on faculty possessing…Continue Reading Imagining the World Factfully

When Students Stop Showing Up

What do you do–what CAN you do–when a student stops showing up to class? the Teaching and Learning Collaborative hosted a brownbag conversation about that question and got concrete, specific insights from the Shepard Academic Resource Center, the Care Team and once another. Big takeaways: follow through on attendance policies in your syllabus (changing them…Continue Reading When Students Stop Showing Up

Need a Moodle Question Answered?

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Do you have Moodle questions? Maybe you are new to UP and are coming from using a different LMS like Blackboard or Canvas. Perhaps you’ve been using Moodle for a while but want to leverage it more to create efficiencies or open up new opportunities. Or maybe you are brand new to the world of…Continue Reading Need a Moodle Question Answered?