Managing Your Course
Facilities
Audio/Visual Requests
To request audiovisual support for the classroom
Classroom Scheduling
Information on classroom scheduling, building codes, room capacities, or requesting a classroom change Reserving Computer Labs
To reserve a computer lab
Service Requests to Physical Plant
Facilities management available here
Materials
CTE Small Grants
Provides up to $100 per professor per semester for anything related to your classes. This money can be used for purchases such as food, event/museum tickets, software, books or guest lecturers for your class.
General Syllabus Guidelines
For tips and guidelines on designing a learning-center syllabus
American University Standards for Syllabi
AU's guidelines for syllabi are detailed in the Academic Regulations
Sample Syllabus
View a PDF sample syllabus provided by CTE using AU's guidelines
Library e-Reserves
Course materials can be scanned into a database and added to the course's Blackboard page through the library's e-reserves service. Deadlines, forms and more information available here.
Course Materials on Blackboard
Other course materials can easily be uploaded into Blackboard and made available to your students.
Copyright and Fair Use
Copyright, fair use and intellectual property issues
Fair Use in Documentary Film
Information from AU's Center for Social Media
Copyright and Fair Use in Teaching
A report that shows how most teachers
unfairly limit themselves in the classroom by not taking advantage of
fair use.
Borrow Equipment for Courses
The Faculty Corner and the New Media Center have tools for building the content of your courses including computers, scanners, digital camera rentals, iPod rentals, laptop rentals, printers and copiers. Both centers are located in Hurst Hall.
Technology
Free Training
The Center for Teaching Excellence provides faculty members with several types of free training. PowerPoint Guide
A guide to using PowerPoint in the classroom.
Scanning and Digitizing
For assistance with scanning and digitizing documents and images, consult CTE's guide for useful tips
Best Practices in College Teaching
Teaching Tips from 2004 Ann Ferren Teaching Conference
"Challenge your students but also provide support." "Teach your interests."
Teaching Index from Honolulu
Index listing of numerous subjects ranging from assessment techniques to course design. This site also has resources for various teaching techniques, dealing with stress or difficult behaviors in the classroom, and many others.
Writing Recommendations
Need to provide students with letters of recommendation? Visit this useful guide first.
Loaning Your Books
Before loaning your books out to students, use this quick and easy form to ensure they are returned.
Teaching Strategies and Suggestions from Berkeley
The site describes 49 teaching tools that cover both traditional practical tasks--writing a course syllabus, delivering an effective lecture--as well as newer, broader concerns such as responding to diversity on campus and coping with budget constraints.
Effective Practices and Solutions EDUCAUSE Database
This searchable database lists a wide range of practices and solutions currently in use today at colleges and universities around the world. These short, easy-to-read vignettes may give you some new ideas for your own classroom.
Best Practices in Teaching from Seattle
A brief summary of the best practices in teaching
Icebreakers
Educational icebreakers and lead-ins
First Weeks of Class
101 things you can do in the first three weeks of class
Motivation from Berkeley
Suggestions for motivating students' best work
Plagiarism
Strategies for avoiding plagiarism
The Diversity Web
Provides a comprehensive compendium of campus practices and resources for campus practitioners seeking to place diversity at the center of the academy's educational and societal mission.
Dave's ESL Café
Offers resources for English as a Second Language teachers and students |
