Teaching Tools & Best Practices
The Instructional Design team has created and manages a Canvas course with curated content about teaching effectively online, best practices, templates, training materials and other resources, and tutorials/job-aids on Canvas, Zoom, and Panopto. This course is a resource for all faculty and instructors. Email [email protected] if you’d like access to the course.
Covered in this course
- Best practices for teaching in various modalities
- Course building (how to create course content in Canvas)
- User guides for all campus academic technology tools
- Course design templates and documents
- Creating and using rubrics to assess student performance
- Tips for teaching effectively over Zoom
- Artificial Intelligence in the higher education classroom
- Recordings of all instructional design workshops
- Information on accessing institutional memberships to Educause, Quality Matters, and the Online Learning Consortium.Teaching Tools & Best Practices
Canvas Resources
- Canvas Instructor Guides Searchable guides on how to do anything in Canvas as an instructor.
- Canvas Student Guides Searchable guides on how to do anything in Canvas as a student.
- Canvas Higher Ed Playlist of tutorials for higher ed Canvas users.
Canvas in the Tech Knowledge Base
The 10 most-viewed Canvas articles
- Messaging your class using the Canvas inbox
- Weighting course grades in Canvas
- Gradebook filters
- Creating grading rubrics
- Creating assignments, discussions, and quizzes in Canvas
- Organizing your Canvas modules
- Creating and managing Canvas modules
- Sending an announcement in Canvas
- Recommended Canvas course settings and gradebook settings
- Canvas notification settings
Mitchell Hamline is a member of Quality Matters, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting research-based best practices in online and blended education.
Access the current 7th edition of the QM rubric by logging into QM under our institutional membership. Contact [email protected] if you need information on how to access your account.
View the Quality Matters Remote Instruction Checklist Checklist created by Quality Matters to ensure online/remote courses are built with best practices.
Instructional Design
Instructional designers collaborate with faculty and instructors to design and develop online courses that best support students and their learning at Mitchell Hamline. We help you create courses that model best practices for online learning, provide guidance and assistance in using technology to support course outcomes, assure that your courses incorporate high levels of engagement and interactivity, and offer strategies for student-centered and inclusive courses.
Instructional designers also play a role in the research and implementation of innovations in course delivery, including the HyFlex model.
