Continuum College Instructor Resources

Coaching and Training Calendar

Personalized coaching sessions are available each week and can be reserved by signing up on the training calendar below. To register for a session, click on the Event name on the calendar description and click “Sign Up.”

If none of the listed times work for your schedule or needs, please email instructordev@uw.edu and request additional one-on-one support.

Coaching Topics for Instructors

Looking for support with your teaching, but not sure where to start? Here are some topics that we generally recommend to new instructors:

Canvas Basics

  • Accessing Canvas (account settings, notifications, module structure)
  • Updating content using the rich content editor (pages & syllabus)
  • Updating schedule (assignments and calendar)

Scheduling Zoom meetings

  • Intro to Zoom (signing in, host controls, sharing screen) 
  • Set up Panopto / Zoom Integration 
  • Schedule Meetings & Office Hours 
  • Tips for inclusion and interaction in Zoom: reactions, chat, waiting for questions, camera choice 

Grading and feedback

  • Canvas assignment basics 
  • Using SpeedGrader 
  • Publishing grades in the gradebook 
  • Tips and tricks for efficient grading and feedback 

Communication in Canvas

  • Announcements 
  • Discussion Boards 
  • Inbox and Messages 
  • Recommendations for encouraging engagement in Canvas

Using Canvas to support classroom experiences

  • File management
  • Syllabus and Calendar 
  • Announcements
  • Virtual Office Hours
  • Inbox and Messages

Additional topics for coaching

Teaching Strategies

  • Backward course design  
  • Active learning 
  • Assessment design 
  • Student-facilitated discussions 
  • Inclusive teaching
  • Instructor presence 
  • Academic integrity 

Canvas

  • Accessibility features (A11y, Accessibility checker) 
  • Group assignments and group discussions 
  • Peer review 
  • Canvas integration with Poll Everywhere 
  • Custom grading schemes 
  • Tools for attendance and participation 

Zoom

  • Security options 
  • Breakout rooms (for small group discussions and increasing engagement) 
  • Collaboration: screen sharing + whiteboard 
  • Zoom polling and feedback features 
  • Zoom accessibility features 

Panopto

  • Lecture capture for asynchronous course content 
  • Editing videos in Panopto  
  • Editing machine-generated captions in videos 
  • Sharing Panopto content between courses 

Accessibility

  • Writing accessible content on Canvas 
  • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles 
  • Using the Microsoft Office accessibility checker 
  • Images and accessibility 

Additional Training and Coaching

UW Learning Technologies also offers free workshops to current UW faculty and staff for core UW teaching tools: Canvas, Panopto Lecture Capture, Poll Everywhere Classroom Response and Zoom Video Conferencing.  You can also sign up for Office Hours sessions or explore workshops and resources for learning more about productivity and creativity tools.

UW-IT Learning Tech Workshop Calendar

Student data privacy is essential to what we do! Make sure you’re up to speed on the basics:

UW FERPA 101 Training Course for Faculty

Updated 06/16/23