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Microsoft Resources for Teaching with Office 365
As more schools begin to make the transition to distance learning and online classrooms, we want to help. Microsoft has...
CFC Open Sessions for Online Design and Blackboard
Open Help Sessions for All Instructors The CFC is hosting additional open sessions for all instructors to learn how to...
OLC Webinar – Keeping Student Engaged in a Transition to Online Learning
The Online Learning Consortium is offering a webinar on Friday that may be helpful. Click on the date to register....
Communicating and Engaging With Your Students
We encourage maximizing asynchronous communication for almost everything. There are many great ways to use Blackboard...
Faculty Planning Tools – Making the Shift to Online
The Coulter Faculty Commons has developed a planning organizer for faculty use for the...
The PLEA for using just-in-time over in-real-time teaching modes!
It is easy to just assume that you will be able to have live class sessions online using Zoom or Collaborate at the same...
Assess Your Students’ Changing Needs – A Survey Template
Student needs are changing during this move to offering alternative modes of instruction. Faculty who want to find out what...
Your Survey and Polling Options
Surveying Your Students: WCU Supported Software Option #1: Blackboard Don't forget that Blackboard's Test tool also...
Assistance to all Faculty – Including Adjuncts – This Week
Virtual Open Sessions The CFC is hosting multiple open sessions for all instructors to learn how to access...
CFC Open Sessions for Online Design and Blackboard
Open Help Sessions for All Instructors The CFC is hosting multiple open sessions for all instructors to learn how to access...
Think Twice About That Free Offer
A Case Study in Marketing: The Danger of "Free" (Especially for Public Employees) My dear faculty friends. Many of you are...
New to Online? Consider Using Text and Images
Yes, most of us like shiny, flashy, and interactive technologies. But consider: How many truly awful webinars have you...
First Steps to Going Online with Blackboard
Introduction: If teaching in face to face classrooms is cancelled for two to three weeks, it behooves faculty members to...
Getting Started with Microsoft Teams for Education
A series of free, live, online training classes designed to get you up and running quicklyMicrosoft is excited to host a...
Open Classroom Forum in the New Reid “Bowling” Rooms
Help Us Decide the Next Directions for Instructional Spaces at WCU What might next steps look like…? Drop in for any...
Using Microsoft Teams
Did you know that you have one of the most advanced collaboration suites available to use with your students? The WCU...
Motivating Honors Students
Guest Blogger ~ Dr. April Talent Whether you're teaching an Honors Section of a course, working with...
Share Your Expertise and Experience at the Summer Institute for Teaching & Learning (SITL) 2020.
Call for Proposals closes February 28, 2020 The Coulter Faculty Commons invites all faculty and instructional staff to...
Call for Presentations is open for the Summer Institute for Teaching & Learning (SITL)
The Coulter Faculty Commons invites all faculty and instructional staff to submit a proposal to present at the Summer...
Best Practices in Honors Contracts Discussed by WCU Faculty and Students
Honors Update Thinking about new ways of engaging students in Honors Contract projects this semester? Listen in on a panel...
2020 landing page changes in Blackboard courses
All courses in Spring 2020 will have an abbreviated framework. If there is no content or no content has been copied from a...
Quick Course Diagnostic Review – October 2019
October was a busy month for educational development at the CFC for Excellence in Teaching and Learning as we provided one...
SiTL 2019 recap
On December 2, about a dozen faculty from across the university joined the Coulter Faculty Commons team for...
Upcoming Panopto 2020 Update
(Source: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Panopto8-Release-Notes) Headline features Embed player options — Users...
Reading Guide Launch Sheet
With the Reading Guide, students see you--the content expert--in conversation with another content expert. Some tips to...
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