Supporting Each Other and Our Students: Teaching & Learning at USI

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Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CETL)
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We appreciate your dedication during the past week to quickly adapt your in-person courses to online/alternative instruction so that your students can continue to learn. We are going to get through this extraordinary time together.

We're here to help. Please know that you have a community of support and expertise, including your colleagues, the staff in Online Learning, Information Technology, Rice Library, CETL, and Disability Resources, and many more across USI. Be well!

Quick Reads: Adapting to our current reality
Resources to Support Moving Classes Online
Tips and Tools Crowdsource Form
Calendar of events

Quick Reads

Hope Matters (Imad, 2020): 10 teaching strategies to support students and help them continue to learn during this time of uncertainty
Checklist for Class Announcement About Shift to Remote Teaching (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2020): Sample language to communicate, with clarity and compassion, changes to your students
Videoconferencing Alternatives: How Low Bandwidth Will Save Us All (Stafford, 2020): Suggestions for interaction when internet is limited
Keep Calm and Keep Teaching (Greene, 2020)
How to Make Your Online Pivot Less Brutal (Gannon, 2020)
Browse past CETL weekly updates, such as Switching to Online (March 16)

Resources to Support Moving Classes Online/Remote

Instructional Continuity at USI: Online Learning's website with resources to support your efforts to adapt your classes for online/alternative instruction, including Instructional Services Request form, list of peer mentors, tips, and technology instructions to share with your students.
Adapting your Face-to-Face Course for Online: Slides, planning worksheet, and recording from last week's webinars to provide you with guidance for adapting your class to an online/remote environment and to start drafting a plan for this process.