best practices

Jul 18, 2023

Teaching Resources: Hybrid and HyFlex Key Takeaways

Which learning modality do you prefer? Learn more about hybrid and HyFlex teaching and technology strategies from a DELTA instructional designer and faculty fellows 

Jul 14, 2023

DELTA Knowledge Base Highlights to Start Your Semester

Did you know the DELTA Knowledge Base articles can provide you with answers to your instructional technology challenges? The solutions are right at your fingertips! Learn more with this month’s highlighted feature articles to help with fall semester planning. 

Jun 22, 2023

Teaching Tech Tip: How are Your Students Actually using Moodle?

Did you know that you can use reports generated from Moodle’s IntelliBoard to guide you in your course revisions? Summer is a great time to plan and streamline your course content so you will be ready for the fall. Make the effort to learn more about how students engage with your content to focus your planning efforts. 

May 25, 2023

DELTA Offers Summer Self-Paced Workshops

Want to start the fall semester with a new, more organized approach to your course? DELTA can help with a variety of asynchronous, self-paced online workshops available this summer. Take a look at the choices to discover sessions that suit your organizational needs. 

May 23, 2023

Teaching Tech Tip: Getting Organized with the Moodle Checklist

Do you want to foster student success by reducing stress and making course content more manageable? Take a look at this month’s tip on Moodle Checklists. This tool helps break down tasks into smaller ones listed on an interactive checklist. This process also helps you organize and track student engagement. 

May 23, 2023

DELTA Grant Deliverables Promote Student Success in Obtaining Ph.D. Degree in Statistics

DELTA Grant produces self-paced refresher modules in the form of video tutorials and complex 2 and 3D graphics to provide a bridge into this foundational course that is required to earn a Ph.D. in statistics. 

May 19, 2023

Accessibility Tip: Grackle Docs

Grackle is an add-on that works within the Google Suite (Docs, Sheets and Slides). It provides an automated accessibility report and guides you through fixing many accessibility errors. Grackle also provides the ability to do things the Google Docs cannot do on its own, like save a Google Doc as a tagged PDF and define… 

Apr 19, 2023

Brickfield: A New Moodle Accessibility Toolkit

Want to provide class material to accommodate the needs of all students? Accessibility issues can be identified and fixed on your Moodle site with Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit. Be proactive by future-proofing your course content to address areas needing adjustment to meet accessibility guidelines. 

Apr 19, 2023

We’re Digging Yellowdig: New Discussion Platform!

Fostering student conversations is imperative to success in online courses. NC State offers a new tool modeled after popular social media platforms that is based on the concept that students want to talk to each other. 

Mar 28, 2023

DELTA Grants: From Challenge to Solution

Assistant Teaching Professor Nicola Singletary and Associate Teaching Professor and Program Coordinator of Counselor Education Angela Smith share their experiences with DELTA Grants. This spring, DELTA is offering the following types of grants: Faculty Fellows, Course Improvement, Critical Path, Course Design and Exploratory Grants.