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Teaching Tips
It's never too early to start planning for the next term, whether it's the course syllabus or the course materials themselves -- including your Bb course site. Each link below provides timely tips concerning the corresponding week of the semester.

• Week One - More on using your SPOT report to improve your current course; blocking student access to copyrighted materials on last semester’s Blackboard courses; first-day attendance policy for online courses and assignments for recently enrolled on-campus students
• Week Two - Get to know your students
  
  • Create a cheat sheet for learning student names. Put your class photo roster in a compact format with 40 students on a single page. Here's how. (332 Kb)
  • FSU has a diverse student population. Relate to your students better by understanding how this diversity impacts the teaching and learning environment. Read Instruction at FSU, Chapter 4, Knowing Your Students (84 Kb) for course planning and delivery ideas that take advantage of classroom diversity rather than letting it be a hindrance to effective learning and discourse.
• Week Three - Use the Technology-Enhanced Classrooms
• Week Four - Deter unoriginal work
• Week Five - Help students maintain integrity in their papers and projects
• Week Six - Get feedback from your students at midterm
• Week Seven - Organize grading criteria in a rubric
• Week Eight - Integrate "active learning" into your class
• Week Nine - Place book orders online
• Week Ten - Use a course calendar to manage your workload
• Week Eleven - Design an online lesson for those days you have to cancel class
• Week Twelve - Increase your students' research skills
• Week Thirteen - Keep a teaching journal
• Week Fourteen - Begin drafting next semester’s syllabus
• Week Fifteen - Copy contents from your spring Bb course site into your summer or fall course site

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