Teaching in All Modalities

Five tips for instructors who are teaching hybrid/HyFlex courses where the majority of students will be participating in face-to-face (synchronous) class sessions while a few students will be joining remotely.

This resource highlights potential benefits and considerations for recording classes. 

“Getting started” strategies for making learning resources, tools, experiences, and opportunities accessible to all learners. 

Simple strategies that combine active learning principles with online tools to promote student access and engagement with content, facilitate sharing of ideas, and encourage reflection on learning.

Tips for setting up an online course that gives students and instructors the flexibility to engage with course material, activities, and each other from anywhere and at any time.

Introduces the benefits of collaborative learning, highlights some strategies for effective collaborative learning, and overviews some of the Columbia-supported tools to facilitate collaborative learning.

Strategies for inclusive teaching online structured around the five principles of inclusive teaching as outlined in the Guide for Inclusive Teaching at Columbia.

This resource provides strategies to be a successful online student, including tools to help implement these strategies.

 This resource distills the seven most impactful strategies to employ when designing an immersive course.

Teaching Assistants can be invaluable partners for faculty and other course instructors. This page offers recommendations and considerations for faculty who are working with TAs to run courses online.

Three learner-centered strategies using Ed Discussion to enhance the ways students make use of the discussion board to learn in your course.

Advice for video set up, recording, editing and publishing, including technical considerations for creating active and engaging classroom experiences using video.

An overview of CourseWorks tools, options, and settings that can help implement exams efficiently and fairly and make the exam experience positive for both instructors and students.

This page guides instructors through creating assignments and grading online with Gradescope, a tool designed to streamline and standardize the grading of paper-based, digital, and coding assignments.

Guidelines for establishing a Zoom account, scheduling class sessions, hosting a class, taking attendance, and additional tools in Zoom. See also Security and Privacy in Zoom.

Guidelines on how to use Panopto to securely host a variety of media to share with students, including uploading and recording video. This CourseWorks-integrated tool supports in-video quizzes, video editing, screen captures, and more.

A new online offering that guides instructors through adapting their courses from face-to-face to online or hybrid formats.

A self-paced course designed to help Columbia graduate student instructors in support roles develop effective teaching practices in online and hybrid courses.

Whether for travel, quarantine, or illness, students may need to be absent from in-person learning. This resource provides strategies on how to provide continuity during absences. 

In preparation for the transition to more in-person teaching, this resource encourages you to reflect back on your pandemic teaching experiences and identify what you plan to carry forward.

Teaching while you and your students are masked can require creative solutions. To help address these challenges, we’ve compiled a series of tips as well as resources from peer institutions. 

Strategies for translating online teaching practices that promote student engagement into the face-to-face classroom, and suggested Columbia-supported tools to engage all of your students as you return to in-person teaching and learning.

Designing a class session is about planning experiences that maximize student learning. The following five tips emphasize the importance of keeping the focus on the students’ experience and what they should be doing during a lecture.

Key considerations in class discussions and strategies for how instructors can prepare and engage in effective classroom discussions.

How do you maximize student learning, uphold academic integrity, and manage grading loads in a large course? The four strategies in this resource address these questions and highlight the importance of purposeful course design in which instructors can effectively support student learning.