Teaching Tips

Tips and Techniques from your Instructional Designer

Welcome to my Teaching Tips site! My name is Katie Walker and I am the instructional designer for the College of Health at  the University of Alaska Anchorage. Read more about me at the bottom of this page.

Land Acknowledgement 

Dena'inaq ełnenaq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu "I live and work on the land of the Dena’ina."

translation: Helen Dick, Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart, Joel Isaak

Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody.

Blackboard singing in the dead of night. Take those broken links and learn to fly.  

Blackboard Learn Anthology logo

UAA's Learning Management System (LMS) is Blackboard. We currently use Blackboard Original Courses and Blackboard Ultra Base Navigation. We will begin the multi-year migration to Blackboard Ultra course view in the summer of 2024 for early adopters.

Blackboard Ultra Faculty Guide

Learning to use Blackboard Ultra Course View

Bb Ultra is designed to be accessible which means faculty will have more limited options for customizing content!

Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View  - Quick Overview

Blackboard Learn Original

Blackboard Original:  Course Copy video (2:53 min)

Blackboard Original: How to set up Zoom in Blackboard  (6:11 min) 

Adaptive Release in Blackboard

Adaptive Release Basics

Blackboard Content Availability Rules

Blackboard Tips for Grade Center

Blackboard Grade Center

Blackboard Grading 

Grading Rubrics 2021

Grading Rubrics

Why and How

Helpful Faculty Guides

Eight days a week... is not enough to plan and prepare.

Course Design and Delivery

Instructional Design

Course Design

Flexible Course Delivery

Course Delivery

Flexible Teaching

UDL in College

Universal Design

UDL Checklist

Lecture Breaks & Learning

Lecture Breaks

Netiquette Guide for Online Courses

Netiquette

Student Feedback Surveys

Student Feedback

 I'll teach you a technology tool, my friend, if it makes you feel alright.

Concept Maps

Concept Maps

Alternatives for lecture

Video

Audio

Audio

  She's got a ticket to ride...

middle aged white woman hiking

Hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park - August 2023

Katie Walker

Hello! I have been working for the University of Alaska for over 20 years and I have been an educator my whole career. I have experience as a coach, tutor, mentor, corporate trainer, high school teacher, and university assistant professor. Since 2011, I have had the pleasure of being an instructional designer and I love this job! Here is my CV if you want more details.

What do instructional designers do? Instructional Designers work with Subject Matter Experts (that's you!) to design and develop learning experiences.

Currently I am helping faculty...