Focus Area: Student Engagement
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Ways to Help Your Most Disconnected Students
At Teaching Breakfast this week we will be exploring ways to support disconnected students. This is a reading from the Chronicle of Higher Education: 4 Simple Ways to Help your Most Disconnected Students – The author of this article explores some concrete ways to help students that aren’t showing up to class. As we come to…
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Creating Customized E-mails to Students
Jaqueline BennettDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistrySUNY Oneonta Sending individual e-mails to all your students can make it a hassle when only one piece of information is different. Jaqueline Bennett explains how to use the Mail Merge feature to send customized data to your students through e-mail. This is part of a series of posts collected by…
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 5 – Clear Course Expectations
This 6-week challenge will help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your course, the checklist is helpful as…
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 4 – Creating Digital Critical and Creative Thinking Activities
Week 4 – Effective Course Activities This 6-week challenge will help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your…
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Course Refresh Weekly Challenge Week 3 – Establishing Collaborations
This 6-week challenge will help faculty focus on specific tasks to work on for your fall courses as we prepare for the possibility of different teaching modalities. Each challenge is based on the TLTC’s simplified OSCQR (OPEN SUNY Course Quality Rubric) checklist. We hope that as you build your course, the checklist is helpful as…
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Communicating with Students in Blackboard
Bharath Ramkumar, Department of Fashion and Textiles, SUNY Oneonta, Over the course of the semester, there may be numerous occasions when you might want to communicate with individual students, a particular student group, or the whole class. Although emailing students from Outlook is an option, it isn’t always easy to locate and type their names/email…
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Participation Activities in Online Videos
Dr. Emily Riddle, Department of Human Ecology, SUNY Oneonta, I haven’t introduced any new resources that I could link others to in my classes since transferring online. However, I have continued to use in-class participation activities, in both my synchronous and asynchronous classes. For asynchronous classes, I record 3 mini lectures for every 1 normal…
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Creating A Custom Landing Page in Blackboard
Dr. Gregory Fulkerson, Sociology Department, SUNY Oneonta, Greg Fulkerson has some ideas for how to change the landing page when logging into a Blackboard shell. Making these alterations in a few short steps allows faculty to customize the page the students see when logging into Blackboard. “I love having control over what students see and…
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Valuable Online Teaching Resources
Valerie Bolger, Health and Fitness Department, SUNY Oneonta, There are many resources I utilize while teaching online higher education courses that engage students in their virtual learning experience. A side from course content, I ask the students to upload a photo of themselves into Blackboard. This way there is always a face to name during discussions. Reaching…
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