EMPOWER ALL WHO TEACH
The Teaching and Learning Commons (TLC) provides teaching support and resources for faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows. TLC staff collaborate with campus partners to assist instructors in enhancing their teaching tools, whether on campus or online, to deepen student learning and promote student success.
TLC Spotlight Events and Services
New Built-In eCampus Tool: Ally
Instructors using eCampus now have access to a powerful built-in tool called Ally that can improve the student experience, particularly for those with accessibility needs or learning challenges. Ally uses an instructor’s original documents to create alternative files, such as text for screen readers, alternative text for images, MP3 audio files of text, electronic braille, and more. Learn more in this Ally FAQ or watch this overview video.
Ally FAQ Overview Video
StudentLingo: On Demand Resource for Student Success
WVU provides free access to StudentLingo, a series of online student-success workshops designed to support student learning, personal growth, and health and wellness. All the workshops include resources and activities and have certificates of completion.
You can log in using your WVU SSO login information at the link found on the Student Workshops page.
Please share this free resource with your students.
Visit the Student Workshops Page
Go2Knowledge: Online Professional Development
Go2Knowledge is a free instructional resource that WVU has made available for instructors and staff on all its campuses. It is an online training platform that offers a wide variety of training options (e.g., live webinars, pre-recorded sessions, certificates of completions) in 6 different topics—technology and online learning, student success, teaching & learning, student populations, institutional effectiveness, and campus safety & security. Simply point, click, and participate.
WVU users can log in using their standard WVU SSO credentials to access the wide spectrum of topics offered. Read the eNews article for more details.
Go2Knowledge Webpage
Finding Instructor Feedback on eCampus
Instructor feedback is a valuable tool in student learning. Most instructors take the time to craft meaningful responses to student work. But if students cannot access that feedback, or find it easily, the value of this tool is greatly diminished. To spare students any potential frustration of having to search for your input on their assignments in eCampus, consider being proactive and sharing the View Feedback From Instructors training page and/or this video with your students, ideally, at the very beginning of the semester. For students who prefer to read instructions, you can share the transcript.
Finding Instructor Feedback in eCampus Resource Page and Video
#ChatGPT
Our guess is that your inbox has been quite busy lately with pings related to ChatGPT. Any time a new technology gains prominence it impacts teaching and learning. ChatGPT (and generative artificial intelligence in general) is certainly no different, and we all have questions related to what now?
Our AI in Teaching and Learning webpage provides information and resources on ChatGPT and similar tools to help answer some of those questions.
AI in Teaching and Learning Webpage
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
The Teaching and Learning Commons strives to curate resources for our instructors to help promote health and wellness for our campus community. Being more informed of the various support services available can make us all better responders should we encounter someone at risk. For example, the WVU CARE Team provides assistance and interventions as referrals are made to help students and the WVU community.
What do we do when a student is in crisis? Help Sheet
Make a CARE Referral
Full list of Resources
Did you know?
We have a video catalog, which contains recordings on a wide variety of topics. Whether you want to know more about Tips for Teaching Online Labs, Testing in eCampus, Keeping Your Students Awake, or Re-Thinking Course Level Assessments, you will find a treasure trove of topics and information in our video catalog. Check it out!
Video Catalog
