Instructional Resources
Links to resources for planning, creating, teaching, and assessing learning activities
The Teaching and Learning Centre has curated these instructional resources to support your on-campus and online teaching and learning at UPEI. You can use them when planning and creating learning activities and resources, designing a course or program, when teaching or assessing learners or when you are looking at ways to demonstrate the impact and effectiveness of your teaching.
Academic Instructional Skills Program
The Academic Instructional Skills Program (AISP) is a micro-credential created to help instructors and graduate students strengthen their teaching, leadership and interpersonal skills.
Teaching and Learning Centre Blog
Keep up to date on the Teaching and Learning Centre blog. This is a space where our team shares tips, reflections, and comments on current topics in teaching and learning at UPEI.
If you missed some of the Tea(ching) Breaks posted in Campus Notices you can check out the archive.
Alternative Assessment
A collection of resources to spark ideas for instructors looking to move away from traditional assessment practices. (Thanks to colleagues from TLCs across Canada for their work!)
Teaching and Learning with
Artificial Intelligence
Guidance on Using AI for Teaching and Learning at UPEI
Do you have questions about using generative AI in your courses? Here are some frequently asked questions!
Thinking about adding AI to your teaching toolbox? Here is a tip sheet that outlines ideas to help students ethically use AI to demonstrate their learning with an emphasis on their learning processes.
This resource focuses on assessment, particularly how to engage with your teaching team (classroom instructor, lab instructor, teaching assistants) and students to understand what ChatGPT is, how it may be used in student work and how it may be used as part of assessment.
Indigenous Educational Resources
Bringing Indigenous knowledge, worldviews, and ways of doing to the forefront of our work as instructors involves learning and unlearning. The curation of this series of resources is one of the Teaching and Learning Centre's efforts to support the work of decolonization so that more instructors and students benefit from Indigenous knowledge.
Syllabi Templates
Your course syllabus sets the stage and tone for your course and can have a variety of formats. Having the basic foundational components can help you and your students get off to a smooth start by sharing key information. The TLC Team have syllabus templates for different course formats: online, blended, and on-site classroom courses.
Liquid Syllabus
A Liquid Syllabus is a humanizing element that ensures students start a course feeling supported by their instructor. A liquid syllabus can take the form of a website, a blog post, a video, a document, and/or even a collection of slides that can be shared with your students before the first day of class.
Graphic Syllabus
Another approach to syllabus building is to incorporate infographic elements.
Key Topics in Pedagogy
Resources for Online, Blended, and Hybrid Teaching
Moodle Essentials
Moodle is the learning management platform that UPEI uses to create, deliver, manage and analyze learning content. Our Moodle Basics course is a self-paced resource for instructors looking to learn the basics of the Moodle learning platform. Instructors with active UPEI accounts can self-enroll in Moodle Basics to begin.
Teaching Online at UPEI
The Teaching Online site is a resource to support quality online teaching. There are resources for new and experienced instructors looking to incorporate online components into your teaching. In this site are resources around online teaching strategies, prompts for inclusion and accessibility, tutorials for technology to facilitate your teaching and links for further reading.
ITSS Service Catalogue
ITSS provides a variety of technology-based services to support the campus community. Services include facilitating platforms and tools supporting in classroom, virtual learning, and lecture capture.
The ITSS service catalog outlines the various services currently offered. Don’t see what you are looking for? Contact us at: ITSS Help Requests
Rubric for Evaluating Tools for Online and Technology-Enhanced Instruction
The Rubric for E-Learning Tool Evaluation offers educators a framework, with criteria and levels of achievement, to assess the suitability of an e-learning tool for their learners' needs and for their own learning outcomes and classroom context.
