What is this page? On this page we share many of the resources created by ACERT and the Center for Online Learning during the past semesters, organized in a way to help you address specific interests and needs for your in-person, hybrid, or online courses.
What are these resources? We’ve collected recordings and presentation materials shared at the ACERT lunchtime seminars, blog posts from the ACERT website, and resources created by the Center for Online Learning. Almost all these resources were created by Hunter faculty and staff! The full list of contributors is included at the end. You can also find quick links to faculty support and services, and to student support services and opportunities.
How can I get more help? You can sign up for the Center for Online Learning’s technology workshops. Or attend the ACERT Lunchtime Seminars where faculty and staff share approaches and insights from their own teaching and research with colleagues. For individual help with a tool or an activity, you can schedule an appointment with an educational technologists via the Center for Online Learning’s Bookings page.
How do I learn about upcoming events? Subscribe to the ACERT mailing list (1-2 emails/week). Follow us on Instagram @HunterACERT. We also post information about upcoming events on the ACERT website and calendar.
Please note: All Hunter/CUNY tools are marked with an asterisk, and you can find more information and instructions (including on how to access the tools) on this resource page from the Center for Online Learning. All links on this Resources for Course Design page open in a new tab.
Overview
Getting ready
Course materials
In the physical classroom
Assignments and activities
Feedback and grading
Inclusive teaching and learning
The tech and the tools
Get inspired!
Getting ready
I would like to…
- get my syllabus ready
- Innovative syllabus design – video and presentation slides
- “Practices and principles in syllabus design” – blog post with additional resources
- share information about Hunter resources with my students
- “Resources to share with your students” – blog post with additional resources
- Services and support to share with students – link to Resource Padlet
- create orientation (“week-zero”) materials
- Orientation modules: what, why, how – resource page
- Giving students a warm welcome – blog post
- prepare my Blackboard course site
- Start of the semester reminders – checklist
- Make my course site available (visible) to students – video demo
- How to create a course banner – instructions
- Copying course materials – instructions with video demo
- make my course and course materials accessible
Course materials
I would like to…
- record my lecture
- “12 tips for recording mini-lectures” – tips
- Record using Zoom* – video and presentation slides
- Record using VoiceThread* – instructions and examples
- “How to create a VoiceThread” – video
- Record using Loom – video and presentation slides (! instructors and students can get a free Loom account)
- Record using Screencast-O-Matic – instructions and examples
- add subtitles to my videos
- How to add subtitles in Zoom*, VoiceThread*, and YouTube – instructions
- store and share large files (such as video lectures)
- create asynchronous modules
- “Asynch Done Asynch” – an asynch module about asynch modules (featured tools: Blackboard Discussion Board*, Padlet*, hypothesis*, VoiceThread*, Zoom*, SnagIt*, Mentimeter, Playposit)
- How to create modules – a step-by-step guide
- Sample modules from various disciplines – modules used in Nutrition, Classics, Mathematics, Psychology, Economics, English courses
In the physical classroom
I would like to…
- get familiar with the equipment in my classroom
- create moments of student feedback and interaction during classtime
- “Creating Interactive Moments in the Physical Classroom” – blog post (featured tools: Poll Everywhere, iClicker*, Padlet*, Wordwall)
- “What Are They Thinking? Mentimeter for Student Engagement and Audience Feedback” – blog post (featured tool: Mentimeter)
- “Using Padlet to Bring the Zoom Chat into the Physical Classroom” – blog post (featured tool: Padlet*)
- “Engaging Larger Classes” – blog post (featured tool: TopHat*)
- host a virtual guest speaker
- Reserve a “Zoom kit” (wide-angle camera with tripod) at the Audio Visual Center – AV contact info
- Invite your guest speaker to your Zoom or Blackboard – Zoom* instructions, Bb Collaborate* instructions
Assignments and activities
I would like to…
- have my students write and/or work together
- Managing group work and collaborate writing during class time – video and presentation slides (featured tools: Google Docs, Google Slides, Blackboard Wiki*)
- Managing group work and presentations outside of class time – blog post with additional resources (featured tools: Google Docs, Blackboard Groups*, Blackboard Adaptive Release*, Padlet*)
- Collaborative reading and annotating with hypothesis* – video; hypothesis instructions and examples; short video on designing a hypothesis assignment
- Sharing and collaborating with Padlet* – video and presentation slides; instructions and examples
- have my students learn from each other
- Engaging students through peer learning – video
- Self and peer review in classes of any size – video and presentation slides
- Resource guide on PeerMark – guide (featured tool: Turnitin PeerMark on Blackboard*)
- Using hypothesis for self and peer review – video
- design creative assignments for my course
- Creating social media based assignments – video (featured tools: Twitter, Blackboard Discussion Board*, Instagram)
- “Using Twitter for academic purposes: how to guide students” – article
- Using podcasts in teaching and research – video (featured tools: Spreaker)
- Creating game-like or playful activities – video (featured tools: Ivanhoe WordPress via the CUNY Academic Commons*, Digital Escape Rooms via Google Forms, Flippity); getting started with Ivanhoe; getting started with digital escape rooms; article on “MEME: Motivating Engagement using Meme Examples”
- Creating shareable e-books – video (featured tools: Book Creator and CUNY Manifold*); quick overview of Book Creator; getting started with Book Creator; getting started with CUNY Manifold*
- create interactive (homework) assignments
- Asynchronous discussions with VoiceThread* and Blackboard Discussion Boards* – video and presentation slides (also mentioned: Blackboard Quizzes*)
- Flipgrid* – a short video on using Flipgrid* to facilitate video or audio discussions outside the classroom
- “Playposit: A remedy for the passive viewing of videos” – blog post
- add interactive moments to my synchronous online sessions
- Starting class with an icebreaker – video and presentation slides (featured tools: Zoom*, Padlet*, Mentimeter)
- Creating polls – video and presentation slides (featured tools: Zoom*, Mentimeter, Poll Everywhere, Peardeck)
- Adding “stop-and-react” moments in your classes – video and presentation slides (featured tools: Peardeck, Mentimeter, Kahoot!, Jamboard, Playposit, Edpuzzle)
- Written discussions in live class sessions – video (featured tools: Google Docs, Slack, Discord)
Feedback and grading
I would like to…
- streamline my grading
- adopt different approaches to grading
- “Ungrading”: decentering grades and encouraging self-reflection and self-assessment – video
- Ungrading: Rethinking Assessment in the Classroom – blog post
- Ungrading: why rating students undermines learning (and what to do instead) – edited volume by Susan Blum (e-book available via Hunter Libraries)
- Ungrading: How it started, how it’s going – further resources
- Gamified Grading – video and presentation slides
- design an alternative to the final paper
Inclusive teaching and learning
I would like to…
- create an inclusive classroom
- Incorporating student identity, purpose, and belonging in the classroom – video and project descriptions (1, 2, 3)
- Teaching for social justice – video and presentations slides (1, 2, 3)
- Addressing multigenerational needs in the digital classroom – video and presentation slides
- Offering students choice in assignments – video with an example of a choice board, and “Choice Boards 101” (Catlin Tucker)
- Equity Resources – website
- facilitate difficult conversations
- Discussing controversial issues in the classroom – video
- “Norms of Engagement” handout – handout by Michael Lewis
- Leading critical conversations on race, identity, and social equity – video
- Classroom Talk for Social Change – book by Melissa Schieble, Amy Vetter, and Kahdeidra Monét Martin
- Critical Talk Moves and Critical Listening Exercise – handouts by Melissa Schieble, Amy Vetter, and Kahdeidra Monét Martin
- Teaching During a Crisis – resources document
The tech and the tools
I would like to…
- learn more about ChatGPT and AI tools in the classroom
- Generative AI and ChatGPT– playlist of all of our videos on this topic
- “ChatGPT and Our Spring 2023 Teaching” – blog post with examples from CUNY instructors
- Classroom policies for AI generative tools – instructors share their policies in this resource
- Generative AI Resources page – Padlet resources page
- Overview of Faculty Engagement with Generative AI at Hunter – Padlet resources page
- find the right tool for my assignment
- Matching tech tools with pedagogical purposes – video and presentation slides (1, 2)
- Technology tools for the online classroom, based on Bloom’s taxonomy – A Technology Teaching Toolkit by Natasha Nurse-Clarke
- learn more about Hunter / CUNY tools
- Find out what they are: Adobe Creative Cloud | Blackboard | Brightspace | Camtasia | Dropbox | Gradescope | hypothesis | Office 365 | Padlet | SnagIt | Specialty Software | Top Hat | Turnitin | VoiceThread | Zoom
- Technology Tools page by the Center of Online Learning– more information and instructions
- Technology Workshops page of the Center for Online Learning – Take a workshop
- Online EdTech Consultations – attend to get individualized help
- get ready for Brightspace
- Learn more about the transition to Brightspace – CUNY Brightspace transition website
- Create a practice course – log into CUNY Brightspace
- Take a workshop – CUNY trainings and Hunter workshops
- Watch a recording of a workshop – Recordings of CUNY workshops for faculty
- Learn how Blackboard tools and functions are called in Brightspace – Brightspace Tool Equivalents
- Work with migrated sites in Brightspace – tutorial prepared by CUNY
- How to export your Blackboard course site – video tutorial
- How to import your Blackboard course into Brightspace – video tutorial
Get inspired!
Get ideas and inspiration from your colleagues across Hunter who shared their teaching innovations during our 2021 Teaching with Tech Faculty Showcase, our Transforming our Teaching Showcase in Spring 2023, and our Teaching Innovation Lightning Talks in Spring 2024!
Get inspired by this interview with Gina Riley, the winner of the 2022 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, and by this interview with Antonia Schroeder, the winner of the 2022 Cecile Insdorf Award for Excellence in Teaching for Part-Time Faculty.
Contributors
In alphabetical order; authors/presenters are also listed on the individual contributions
Abigail Torres (Center for Online Learning)
Adina Mulliken (Social Work and Libraries)
Aiesha Turman (English)
Aine Zimmerman (German)
Allen Strouse (English)
Amber Alliger (Pyschology)
Andie Silva (English, York College; Digital Humanities, Graduate Center)
Andrea Saenz (Nutrition)
Angela Padilla (The Skirball Science Learning Center)
Anna Shilova (Romance Languages)
Antonia Schroeder (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology)
April Kisamore (Special Education)
Arabella J Pollack (Economics)
Austin Bailey (English)
Barry Cherkas (Mathematics and Statistics)
Ben Frischer (English)
Blondie Natacha L.N.E. Pawa (Romance Languages)
Carmen Brown (Curriculum and Teaching)
Catlin Tucker (Pepperdine University)
Charles Tien (Political Science)
Chris Wells (Environmental Studies/History, Macalester College)
Christine Rosalia (Curriculum and Teaching)
Christine Willard (Special Education)
Daniel Chan (Office of Accessibility)
Darlene DeFour (Psychology)
Deepsikha Chatterjee (Theatre)
Dennis Robbins (Curriculum and Teaching)
Devra Golbe (Economics and Accounting)
Diana Conchado (Romance Languages)
Dongshin Chang (Theatre)
Elizabeth Klein (Special Education)
Elizabeth Wall-O’Brien (Honors Scholar Cohorts)
Ellen McCabe (School of Nursing)
Gina Riley (Special Education)
Hossannah Asuncion (English, BMCC)
Ingrid Lundeen (Anthropology)
Ioana Wicker (German)
Iris Finkel (Libraries)
Ivana Stanisavljevic (Mathematics and Statistics)
Jack Kenigsberg (English; Rockowitz Writing Center)
Jared Simard (Liberal Studies, NYU)
Jaya Rachwani (Physical Therapy)
Jeff Allred (English)
Jennifer Newman (Libraries)
Jillian Báez (Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies)
John Bandman (International English Language Institute)
Josh Friedman (Psychology)
Julie Van Peteghem (Romance Languages)
Kahdeidra Monét Martin (Urban Education, Graduate Center)
Kate B. Pok-Carabalona (Sociology)
Katie Winkelstein-Duveneck (English)
Katherine St. John (Computer Science)
Katherine Volkmer (Romance Languages)
Kathie Cheng (English)
Kathryn Furlong Silverio (Special Education)
Keith Okrosy (Career Development)
Kelle Cruz (Physics and Astronomy)
Kevin Currie Knight (Special Education, Foundations, and Research, ECU)
Kirsten Grant (Chemistry)
Laura Baecher (Curriculum and Teaching)
Lauren Schnell (Special Education)
Leila Gastil (Psychology)
Lori Kent (Art Education)
Marcia Liu (HCAP and Asia American Studies Program)
Margaret Bausman (Libraries)
Maria Hernandez-Ojeda (Romance Languages)
Melissa Schieble (Curriculum and Teaching)
Michael Fisher (Women and Gender Studies)
Michael Lewis (Social Work)
Mowmita Jabir (Technology Resource Center)
Nancy Casella (Special Education)
Natasha Nurse-Clarke (Nursing, Lehman College)
Nga Than (Sociology)
Nina Merolle (German)
Partha Deb (Economics and Accounting)
Paul McPherron (English)
Philip Johnson (Political Science, Graduate Center)
Randye Rutberg (Geography)
Raj Korpan (Computer Science)
Rebecca Huselid (Psychology)
Renee Schaller (English)
Riana Green (Chemistry)
Roberta Kilkenny (Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies)
Sal Ruiz (Special Education)
Samantha Sheppard-Lahiji (Biology)
Sandi Clarkson (Mathematics & Statistics)
Sarah Bonner (Curriculum and Teaching)
Sarah Ward (Libraries)
Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere (Psychology)
Shiao-Chuan Kung (Center for Online Learning)
Sissel McCarthy (Film & Media)
Stefania Porcelli (Romance Languages)
Stephanie Margolin (Library)
Sue Lipkowitz (Special Education)
Valerie Khait (Psychology)
Vicki Lens (Social Work)
Virginia Gryta (Special Education)
Vivian Louie (Urban Policy and Planning / Asian American Studies Center and Program)
Yang Hu (Curriculum and Teaching)
Last updated: August 2024
