Center for Excellence in TeachingOpen-book or take-home exams online
Considerations for administering exams online as open-book or take-home exams.
Resources: Course Design
Group work
A comprehensive guide to using group work in courses. This resource contains strategies planning, facilitating, and evaluating effective group assignments and activities, as well as quick tips for some common challenges in group work.
Keywords: group work, assignments, active learning, collaboration.
Writing course-specific policies
A description of the process for writing or revising course-specific policies, and examples of communication, technology, and in-class work policies.
Test question design
A comparison chart of test question types that outlines the purpose of each question type, or why you would elect to use that type of question on a test. The chart also includes tips for writing each type of question. The set of reflection prompts can be used as a final check of each question you have designed.
Peer feedback form for group presentations
A sample form for use by students when they are observing other students’ class presentations, focusing on constructive suggestions for improvement.
Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA)
A video describing Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) and how it can be applied to assignment descriptions.
Case-based role play
A general structure and options for case-based role play activities and assignments.
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
This video explains a method to visualize student growth and the zone of proximal development (ZPD).
Designing reflection assessments
A description of a five-step model that instructors can use in designing in-class reflective assignments.
Course policies
A video describing considerations when creating course policies.