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: Policies
Discussing Current Events
This resource provides strategies for integrating current event topics into your course.
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.
USC resources for faculty supporting students
A panel discussion on strategies to engage students with appropriate support services at USC. Hear from Patrick Prince, Associate Vice Provost for Threat Assessment and Management, Lynette Merriman, Associate Vice Provost for Campus Support and Intervention, and Naddia Palacios, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Student Equity and Inclusion, about how their resources and programs support USC faculty and students.
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.
AI tools for student assignments
This resource provides a brief introduction to AI generators and considerations and examples of how these tools can be incorporated into assignments to advance student learning.
AI Tools for Course Design
This resource provides ideas and examples of how faculty can use AI generators to generate ideas for the design of syllabi, assignments, and learning activities.
Pedagogical approaches to contract grading in composition
Rory Lukins from the Dornsife writing program discusses a study on the implementation of contract grading in composition courses at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase on Alternative Assessment
Implementing a mastery-based grading system in a mathematics class
Felicia Yeung Tabing from Dornsife Mathematics discusses design, implementation and revision of mastery-based assessment in a mathematics class at the August 2022 Faculty Showcase on Alternative Assessments
Engaging the Gould Community in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Nickey Woods from the Gould School of Law discusses DEI efforts during the September 2021 Faculty Showcase.