Center for Excellence in TeachingTips for improving grading efficiency
This resource provides tips for streamlining grading and making student assessment and feedback more efficient.
Resources: Word document
Alternative assessments
This resource provides considerations for converting assessments that require proctoring or time-intensive grading typically done by TAs to shorter, or more automated options.
Considerations for teaching labs online
This resource provides options for faculty who may need to teach their labs online because teaching assistant support is not available to them. It includes pedagogical considerations, links to databases of STEM content, and links to simulation and video resources.
Facilitating discussions in large enrollment courses without teaching assistants
This resource provides tips and considerations for instructors in facilitating discussions or activities in large enrollment classes without teaching assistant support.
Discussing Current Events
This resource provides strategies for integrating current event topics into your course.
Selecting different rubric types
This resource describes different kinds of rubrics and considerations for selecting the rubric that is best aligned with an instructor’s grading practice, assignments, and learning objectives.
A checklist of considerations for effective student feedback
This resource provides a checklist of considerations for providing student feedback verbally, in writing, or through video.
Communication strategies for instructors
This resource provides suggestions for effective communication with students to advance your teaching goals and to help maintain work-life balance and wellbeing for both instructors and students. It lists an array of options for communicating with students and identifies campus resources available to faculty when communications require intervention.
A checklist of what students want in online learning experiences
This resource provides a summary of what students report is important to them in an online learning or LMS environment.
Rubric Examples
A collection of example rubrics for grading assignments or evaluating/giving feedback on student work.