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: Course design
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.
Discussing Current Events
This resource provides strategies for integrating current event topics into your course.
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.
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.
Selecting Assignments
This resource provides considerations for faculty when choosing assignments for a course and examples of assessments.
Mindfulness in courses
A brief introduction to mindfulness including examples of contemplative pedagogical practices that can be incorporated into courses to support student learning and wellbeing. Created in collaboration with Mindful USC.
Active learning facilitation in clinical settings
A description, definition, and examples of active learning techniques in clinical settings. This document provides a planning guide for facilitating active learning in a variety of clinical or simulated settings as well as examples to get started.
AI Tools for Course Design
This video, presented by CET, provides ideas and examples of how faculty can use AI generators to generate ideas for the design of syllabi, assignments, and learning activities.