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Teaching Resources and Guides

Active learning ideas
Ways to engage students in their own learning
Helping students stay on track
Tips for helping students who need it
Project-based learning
Provide students with real-world projects, preparing
them for work after college
Service learning
UVM’s resource for academic service-learning
Teaching international and multilingual students
Resources and tips
Transparent assignment design
Concrete steps to clarify assignments,
helping student succeed
Universal design for learning:
A framework for reaching all learners

Academic integrity
Resources and tips for helping students
succeed with academic integrity
Exam Wrappers
A powerful tool to help students understand
why they earned their test grade
Classroom assessment techniques
A range of quick activities to gauge students’
understanding of what you’ve just covered in class
Giving exams to quarantined students
If students must stay out of class but aren’t sick,
how you can administer their tests
Assess with the Brightspace quiz tool (on UVM Knowledge Base)

Microsoft Teams
A list of all the Teams-related help pages
on the UVM Knowledge Base
iClickers at UVM
Student response system for in-class polling, etc.
Padlet
A collaborative digital bulletin board and map tool
Perusall
A social reader/annotation platform
Screencasting
For making a video recording of your screen and your voice narration.
UVM Streaming media UVM’S youtube-like streaming service (on UVM Knowledge Base)
Using slides in classroom teaching
Tips for making lecture slide decks more engaging
Yellowdig (on UVM Knowledge Base)
An engaging class discussion alternative that can be used within Brightspace