The Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
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In case you missed the last news from the CFC, find the most recent posts below. To catch up with all communications, vists the CFC News page or check out the CFC Newsletter Archive.
Fall 2021 Update on Course Storage
Digital Storage for Teaching and Learning at WCU What you need to know: As an instructor, your 'teaching' Canvas courses have 1 GB of cloud storage. Canvas storage should be considered temporary and not for long-term curation or archiving. Live Canvas courses (the...
Group Assignments – Are they worth the hassle?
Having students work in groups is an effective teaching strategy. It gives students the opportunity to practice formulating and expressing ideas, evaluating the ideas of others, building consensus, and other collaborative skills applicable to both the classroom and...
Canvas Quiz Generation Policy
WCU does not have a tool that will translate Word documents into Canvas Quizzes, and we do not have the resources to create or manually transcribe any assessments for instructors. We recommend and fully support instructors authoring their tests/quizzes/exams inside of...
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Coulter Faculty Commons
172 Hunter Library
Cullowhee, NC 28723
828.227.7196
cfc@wcu.edu