UCLA Resources

Tech Assistance

Zoom Help

• Office of IT Technology (main resource for Zoom licensing, troubleshooting help for UCLA Faculty, Staff, and Students)

Canvas Help

• • Canvas Local Contact Info

  • Resources for Teaching Remotely: A Community Space

  • Online Module to Learn More about Teaching Technologies

Remote Teaching Resources

Bruin Resources and Tools

• General one-stop website for all campus resources

Center for the Advancement of Teaching

• • Course Communication Tool Comparison Guide: A shared document about best communication practices for your courses.

  • (If applicable) Graduate Student Support Page: The Center for the Advancement of Teaching provides teaching support to graduate students through a variety of programs and resources, including workshops, fellowship opportunities, teaching guides, and more.

  • Resource Page by CAT for Online Pedagogy

  • Teaching and Learning Technologies

    1. • CAT provides services related to instructional media and instructional technology. The purpose of the tools and services offered are to use technology, when it makes sense, to augment and facilitate the teaching and learning that happen both inside and outside the physical classroom.

  • A Short Guide to Inclusive Strategies for Remote Teaching

  • Remote Teaching Resources (a site that provides many tools on setting up Canvas, Zoom, Video and Video Recording, group work ideas, best practices for communication, etc.)

    1. • You may also share the student version of this resource site to your own students

  • A compilation of all the recordings on remote learning thus far from the CAT office.

  • Sign up for their informative weekly newsletter, here.

Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS)

• List of Upcoming Events for Teaching in STEM

• Remote Teaching, a One-Page Summary

• Teaching Inclusively in a Remote Environment During COVID-19

Center for Accessible Education

• Some further tips on for students needing accommodations

UCLA Fall 2020 Teaching Forum

• UCLA's Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT), the Center for Education, Innovation, and Learning in the Sciences (CEILS), and the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms program (EPIC) have collaborated to launch a campus-wide forum focused on supporting all instructors and faculty with teaching remotely in Fall 2020.

RESOURCES FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES

CUNY Hybrid Initiative

• • Helpful Breakdown of Asychronous vs. Synchronous Learning

Harvard Business School Online

• • 8 Tips for Teaching Online

Stanford Teaching Commons

• Solve Common Online Teaching Problems

• Ten Promising Practices for Effective Online Teaching

• Successful breakout rooms in Zoom

• Small group activities for Zoom breakout rooms

• Playbook for Teaching in 2020/21

Sustained Dialogue Institute via UNC Greensboro

• Tips for facilitating dialogue about difficult topics in an online format and how to manage technology, access, and power in online spaces.

University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT)

• Unsure what you would do if a "hot moment" arose in your class discussion? Review hot moment facilitation strategies that can help you leverage these moments to advance student learning. (NEW)

More Online Resources

Online Toolkits

ACUE: Association of College and University Educators - Online Teaching Toolkit

• • Helpful tips and suggestions on how to welcome students, manage your online presence, facilitate effective discussions

Virtual Panels

Chronicle of Higher Education

• Better Student Engagement During Covid-19 (Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2020)

Zoom

Educating Over Zoom

• Curated channel of resources for educators, administrators and students by Zoom

Articles

Chronicle of Higher Education

• How to Be a Better Online Teacher: ADVICE GUIDE (Chronicle of Higher Education)