Creating a Welcoming Canvas Site
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll begin building a Canvas site that engages and supports students throughout your course. You’ll learn how to effectively use tools for organizing content, keeping students […]
Building a Welcoming and Accessible Canvas Site
The organization of your Canvas site can set a welcoming tone for your students and help students to find the information and resources they need to stay on track in […]
Building a Welcoming and Accessible Canvas Site
The organization of your Canvas site can set a welcoming tone for your students and help students to find the information and resources they need to stay on track in […]
Developing a Canvas Site that Saves You and Your Students Time
Creating an organized and thoughtful Canvas site can help you set expectations for your students, support students as they do the work and can save you time during the semester. […]
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What Students Want from Canvas Sites
CETLI asked undergraduate students across Penn for feedback on how Canvas helps or hinders their learning. This page provides some insights from them about what has been most helpful as […]
Academic Integrity in Online Courses
Academic integrity is a core consideration in promoting student learning. CETLI provides academic integrity resources to support instructors of all courses, whether online or in person. This page provides additional […]
Accessible Teaching Practices for Students with Disabilities
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 19% of post-secondary students identify as having a disability (NCES, 2022). This means you will likely have students with disabilities in […]
Getting Started with Slack
Slack for Online Programs Getting Started with Slack If you’re teaching or supporting an online program that is currently piloting Slack, this guide will help you with setting it up […]
Slack FAQ
Questions about using Slack? Find the answer here. If your question is not addressed below, let us know so we can add the answer. Refer to our Getting Started and […]
Recommended Practices for Using Slack
This page includes suggestions for helping Slack run smoothly in your online course. If you have questions about setup or troubleshooting, please visit our Getting Started and Slack FAQ pages […]
Supporting Students with Disabilities by Making Course Materials Accessible
Creating accessible course materials – from documents, to instructional videos, to Canvas sites – can ensure that students are able to fully engage with your course. In this session, you […]
Communicating Your Expectations and Keeping Students on Track
In online classes, clearly expressed expectations are crucial both to guide and motivate students. This discussion will consider how to help students to navigate the Canvas site and how to […]
Communicating Your Expectations and Keeping Students on Track
In online classes, clearly expressed expectations are crucial both to guide and motivate students. This discussion will consider how to help students to navigate the Canvas site and how to […]
Introduction to Canvas
If you’ve never had a Canvas site before or find Canvas a bit confusing, then this is the workshop for you. This workshop will introduce basic Canvas functions that will […]
Introduction to Canvas
If you’ve never had a Canvas site before or find Canvas a bit confusing, then this is the workshop for you. This workshop will introduce basic Canvas functions that will […]
Introduction to Canvas
If you’ve never had a Canvas site before or find Canvas a bit confusing, then this is the workshop for you. This workshop will introduce basic Canvas functions that will […]
Organizing Your Class on Canvas
Creating a Canvas site that is organized in intuitive ways can save instructor’s time and help students focus on learning. This session will outline different ways of organizing your materials, […]
Organizing Your Class on Canvas
Creating a Canvas site that is organized in intuitive ways can save instructors’ time and help students know what is expected so they can focus on learning. This session will […]
Keeping Students On Track With Canvas
This session will explore using Canvas to help students understand what they should be doing (and when they should be doing it) so they can stay on track in your […]
Intro to Compliance
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Online Programs FAQ
This FAQ is intended to be a resource for staff, administrative teams, and instructors who are seeking guidance on creating online learning experiences, as well as the various technological platforms […]
Teaching Statistics to Non-Statisticians
Having a baseline level of statistical knowledge has become essential for communicating the significance of one’s findings, leading many undergraduate and graduate programs in a variety of disciplines to require […]
Online Assessment Tools
Below are some of the most commonly used online assessment tools at Penn. Additional tools can be found on CETLI’s list of tools for Teaching with Technology. Specific programs, departments, […]
Getting Students to Focus on Learning Not Grades
Spring 2022 Facilitated by Tobias Baumgart and Masao Sako Introduction Tobias Baumgart Students find classwork stressful because they feel vulnerable – the challenge of chemistry and other classes often seem […]
Teaching to Different Levels of Students
Tailoring our course and instruction appropriately for different student experience levels presents both opportunities and challenges. In particular, there may be a broad distribution of student needs: some might find […]
The Body in the Classroom
We experience the world through our bodies. Although much of academic socialization insists that graduate student-workers and undergraduates ignore our corporeality, lived experiences and emotions, the coronavirus pandemic has shown […]
Activism Beyond the Classroom: Community Organizing as Pedagogical Method
In this workshop, Dr. Krystal Strong will talk through lessons learned from her experimental course, Activism Beyond the Classroom, which is a scholar-activist community, course, and digital archive project co-designed […]
Care and Critique
Critique is deeply enmeshed in the academic experience (e.g. grading; feedback; “crits”; peer review), and is often a site of anxiety and stress for both students and instructors. In this […]
Bringing the World to Your Class (and Your Class to the World)
Online teaching technologies can enable instructors to connect their students with people and places around the country and the globe. In this discussion, Dorit Aviv of Architecture and Lori Rosenkopf […]
What Student Surveys from the Fall Tell Us About Teaching Online at Penn
This fall, Penn surveyed thousands of students about what was effective and ineffective in their online courses. In this discussion, CETLI will share some of that survey data to facilitate […]
Organizing Your Class on Canvas
Creating a Canvas site that is organized in intuitive ways can save instructor’s time and help students focus on learning. This session will outline different ways of organizing your materials, […]
Organizing Materials on Canvas
Creating a Canvas site that makes the course elements and expectations clear to students is critical to help students navigate their online classes. In this discussion, Holly Harner of Nursing […]
Non-hierarchical Pedagogy
In this workshop, we will look at ways to dismantle and overcome long-standing traditions of how literature should be taught according to denotive or “this means that” pedagogy. In order […]
Communicating your expectations and keeping students on track
In this session, participants will consider how to set expectations before students start work and how to use those expectations to guide and motivate students. The session will begin by […]
Introduction to Canvas
If you’ve never had a Canvas site before or find Canvas a bit confusing, then this is the workshop for you. This workshop will introduce basic Canvas functions that will […]
Active Learning in STEM
The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Innovation will be offering a mini-course, Active Learning in STEM Courses. It is four weeks long on Wednesdays starting July 10th (4-6pm) […]
Active Learning in STEM Courses
When implemented effectively, active learning techniques have been shown to improve learning outcomes. This four week mini-course is designed to help participants explore active learning and consider how to effectively […]
Teaching Award Winners
Outstanding teachers abound across Penn. The University and its schools recognize some of those excellent teachers every year with teaching awards. University-Wide Teaching Awards Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching Awarded […]
Strategies to Help Students Stay on Track When They Must Miss Class
Due to illness or other circumstances in their lives, some students will need to miss classes on occasion. Proactively designing a plan for how you will approach missed classes will […]
Inclusive Teaching Practices & Course Design
Inclusive teaching is teaching that intends to open the classroom to a wide range of different students. Creating a classroom that welcomes students of different races, ethnicities, genders, socio-economic status, […]
Essays & Research Papers
Designing essays and research assignments that make plagiarism difficult often allow students to do better work and engage more with their projects. Creating assignments that encourage integrity Show students the […]
Promoting Academic Integrity
While students are ultimately responsible for maintaining academic integrity, instructors can also create an atmosphere in class that encourages students to be honest by removing incentives to cheat and valuing […]
Reporting Academic Integrity Violations
When instructors suspect a student of violating Penn’s Code of Academic Integrity, they may report the student to the Center for Community Standards & Accountability (CSA). CSA is responsible for adjudicating such […]
Asynchronous Elements of Online Courses
What can students do on their own time? Asynchronous tools can help your students prepare for synchronous sessions, practice and reflect on their understanding, and create space for student interactions. […]
Organizing Your Course and Distributing Materials
Because students in online courses navigate so much of the content and activities on their own time, it is important that the goals that they are aiming for are clear […]
Using Online Tools for Discussion
Online discussion boards and other collaboration tools allow students to engage asynchronously with one another through a series of written posts and replies. Sometimes these posts can also contain multimedia like […]
Storing Zoom Recordings
Zoom is primarily a communications platform, not a place to permanently store recordings. The steps below can help you move Zoom recordings to a secure, longer-term storage solution. If you […]
Getting Started With Canvas
Canvas provides instructors with many basic tools for sharing documents, posting and managing assignments, and assigning grades. Canvas also supports a wide range of other functions. This page provides resources and […]
Teaching with Technology
Technology can help instructors reach their goals for student learning when used thoughtfully. CETLI supports instructors as they think about why they might use technology, which tools might best fit […]
Syllabus Language and Policies
Penn has no official set of statements that an instructor must include on their syllabus. The following is a list of policies and statements that instructors might consider. In some […]
Advice on How to Succeed
These three examples show how faculty can use syllabus statements to help students focus their work and succeed in the class. Annette Lareau, SOCI 1000 “Free Advice” There are many […]
Academic Integrity Statements for Your Syllabus
Why Include an Integrity Statement? Instructors who explain their expectations about integrity (as well as the consequences for not meeting them) help students better understand integrity and its value in […]
Course Costs
Increasingly, instructors are aware that students may struggle to buy the materials they need to for class. Many offer students less expensive options and explain them in their syllabus. Sample […]
Communications & Email
A clear policy about how to communicate helps students know how best to interact with instructors. You policy should let students know when you are available, what platform to reach […]
Recitation Guidelines
Few undergraduates have recitations in high school or have a clear sense of what a recitation is. Explaining what you (and their TA) expect them to prepare beforehand and to […]
FGLI Friendly Policies
The term First-Generation, Low-Income (FGLI) captures a diverse group of students. At Penn these students have the same high SAT scores and the same motivation and ambitions as their peers […]
Writing a Statement of Teaching Philosophy
When writing your statement of teaching philosophy, do not be daunted by the term “teaching philosophy.” You are simply communicating both what it is you try to accomplish in the […]
CETLI Teaching Certificate
The CETLI Teaching Certificate provides Penn doctoral students and terminal master’s degree students with support for improving their teaching as well as recognition for their commitment to developing as teachers. […]
Home – Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation
Fostering a culture of reflection and collaborative engagement around teaching and learning at Penn About Supporting all instructors in pursuing their teaching aims and ambitions Programs & Services Leading initiatives […]
Resources
Here you can find information you will need as you prepare and teach your classes, links to offices around campus that can support your teaching or your students, suggestions around […]