Poll Everywhere: Sharing Activities with your Team
|Poll Everywhere Teams allows a group of presenters to create activities, share and present them independently. Find the tech tip here.
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Invite Student Feedback: PJ Koltnow, College of Medicine
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Sharing PowerPoint Decks via Zoom while still seeing your notes
|A Zoom Share Screen feature that allows presenters to show presentation slides to viewers while their notes remain hidden from view. This is especially helpful when you only have one display for your computer.
Know Your Students: Lynn Russell, College of Dentistry
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Blackboard Course Roles
|Course roles control access to the content and tools within a course. Each user is assigned a role for each course in which they participate. As Course Directors and Instructors, you can set course roles when you enroll users in courses. You can also edit course roles after enrollment.
Keep Lectures Short: Rebecca Reynolds, College of Health Professions
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Inclusive Learning
|Last Revised:April 4, 2025 First Published:April 12, 2022 Inclusive learning has become an umbrella term to describe practices that support learners from a variety of backgrounds. Inclusive learning boosts educational achievement by providing learners and educators with tools to co-create learning experiences, to enhance cultural awareness, sensitivity and competency, and to personalize the learning experience.… Read More
Attending to Student Well-Being
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Faculty have a unique opportunity to support student well-being in both classroom and clinical settings. This can include using clear and flexible teaching approaches, offering regular check-ins to help students reflect on their personal and academic experiences, and creating a welcoming learning environment. These strategies can help students stay engaged, especially when they are facing… Read More
Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ)
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Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are among the most widely used formats in health sciences education due to their efficiency in assessing broad content areas, ease of scoring, and suitability for computer-based testing. When well-constructed, MCQs can assess not only factual recall, but also application, analysis, and clinical reasoning. However, poorly written items can mislead students,… Read More
Writing a Teaching Philosophy
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Teaching Philosophies, sometimes called Teaching Statements, are documents that are helpful in informing students of your priorities, applying to teaching positions and reflecting on teaching practices. Teaching Philosophies articulate your central goals as an educator, provide concrete examples of your teaching and share how you evaluate your teaching effectiveness. Teaching Philosophies can vary in length from a… Read More