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OSU’s UIT-Academic Technology and Center for Teaching and Learning are committed to your success in remote and blended teaching. Use the resources on this page to sharpen your skills and enhance student learning.

Featured Resources

Faculty can leverage online technologies for remote and blended teaching, particularly Canvas and Zoom. Providing a consistent approach for students across the university will be greatly beneficial.

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Access support and training resources on Canvas, Zoom, media, teaching strategies, and classroom technology. Many support options are available including consultations, how-to guides, in-class support, and scheduled training.

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Center for Teaching and Learning

Remote and blended teaching present new pedagogical challenges. Use this form to contact CTL for a 1-on-1 teaching consultation.

Center for Teaching and Learning

Using Media

Find out how to prepare video and deliver it to your students using the tools provided by Oregon State: Zoom, Kaltura, and Canvas.

Media Resources

Fall 2020 Guidance for OSU Course Delivery

This document summarizes sources of support, clarifies terminology around course delivery modalities, and outlines expectations for the delivery of all OSU credit-bearing classes during Fall 2020.

Teaching Guidance

Student Engagement Guidance

As units consider their operations for the 2020-21 academic year, this document further clarifies expectations and approaches for how the university ensures holistic engagement with students.

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Latest Updates

Timely Teaching Tips

September 15, 2020

Proctorio Overview

View the recording from the September 18 overview, which covered  automated Proctorio's main features as well as the faculty and student experience within the tool. You'll find this session helpful if you are new to online proctoring, are deciding whether or not to use Proctorio in your course, or if you already plan to use it but want a general introduction to the tool.

(recording link) https://media.oregonstate.edu/media/1_1jciyzc0

 

Proctorio Setup

View the recording from the September 22 session, which provided more technical training on exam setup in Proctorio.  This session covered specific settings choices and how to optimize Proctorio features for your particular exam design.  It also includes an overview of interpreting results the Proctorio Gradebook.

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OSU Teaching Blogs

Requesting, Receiving & Responding to Student Feedback

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Oct 28, 2020

Dr. Kiri L. Wagstaff is an Associate Research Professor at OSU in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Principal Researcher in machine learning at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. What is the best way to solicit, analyze, … Continue reading →

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Is it okay to use YouTube videos in your course?

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Oct 19, 2020

Is it okay to use YouTube videos in your course? What about copyright? I get inquiries like this often. Here I’ll share the most common questions from instructors and the answers I provide. Q: Should I be concerned about relying on a link to a YouTube video for essential course content? There are quite a… Continue reading →

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Mixing Modalities

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Oct 21, 2020

Hello everyone!  Let’s talk teaching – As a young instructor, I started teaching on chalkboards and clear plastic acetates. Since then, I have: -Seen new computer graphics programs that can make your paper handouts more interesting -Developed my own website to give students access to these handouts in digital form at any time -Ditched my… Continue reading →

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