Coulter Faculty Commons
Your Partner in Teaching & LearningThe Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
We partner with all instructors, staff who teach, and graduate student assistants.
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Our educational developers are here to meet with you for a personalized consultation in person or virtually.
Teaching @WCU: A CFC Blog
Staying in Touch with Your Students – Communicating Through the Gradebook
By John Hawes, Educational Developer and Jonathan Wade, Senior Educational Technologist There are nearly countless ways to stay in touch with your students. Zoom, emails, text messages, announcements, digital syllabi, and dynamic course schedules make it possible for...
Prevent Burnout with Self-Care Strategies
Join us for our 2nd Annual Teaching & Learning Day. We will meet from 1 - 3:30 to discuss strategies faculty can use to prevent burnout in these demanding times. We will also discuss ways in which we can encourage and support our freshman and sophomores whose...
Getting the Most out of the Gradebook and SpeedGrader in Canvas
What’s Different about the Canvas Gradebook? The Gradebook in Canvas and the Grade Center in Blackboard are similar in many respects. The Grades link is how you and your students access the course gradebook – just like the Grade Center in Blackboard. The gradebook...