best practices

May 25, 2022

Accessibility Quick Tip – How to Add Alt Text to Images

The DELTA Accessibility Team provides quick tips for Alt text best practices so screen readers can optimize the content making it easily available to everyone. 

May 20, 2022

Spring Cleaning Part 2: Deep Clean Your Course

Interested in organizing your course material for the fall semester? There are many ways to do so with templates such as Quick Start Course Shell or creating module overviews and this article highlights several additional options. Implementing just one of these methods will make your course more accessible and sleek for fall. 

May 19, 2022

Early Adopters of Moodle 4 Share Experiences

DELTA Faculty Fellows share their experience with Moodle 4 including tips for colleagues transitioning their course content. They also highlight their initial impressions and favorite features of this upgrade. 

May 18, 2022

Keeping Students Engaged in Asynchronous Lectures

What makes the learning active or passive is not the modality (Zoom vs. pre-recorded videos vs. text-based lessons), but the structure of the lesson the instructor creates. Faculty Fellow Claire Gordy share tips for keeping students engaged. 

May 17, 2022

Unconference Success: DELTA-Con 2022

DELTA-Con was first started at NC State in August of 2017 and it is still an unconference. What is an unconference? An unconference takes the best part of a conference, the discussions between sessions, and makes them the highlight! Learn about DELTA-Con 2022. 

Apr 19, 2022

Meet DELTA Faculty Fellow Bevin Maultsby

DELTA Faculty Fellow Bevin Maultsby specializes in online and distance education. With the help of DELTA Grants and instructional technologies, she’s creating a more immersive online learning environment at NC State. 

Mar 28, 2022

Meet Faculty Fellow Michelle Falter

Assistant Professor Michelle Falter has vast experience in teaching with technology. As a DELTA Faculty Fellow, she is sharing her passions for instructional technologies, grading techniques and diversity and inclusion with other instructors. 

Feb 24, 2022

Manage Group Projects with Team Contracts

Help your students succeed with group projects by guiding them through their work using a team contract. Clearly defining each group member’s role can avoid the hurdles that often arise with this type of assignment. This process offers the needed support and encourages collaboration. 

Feb 22, 2022

What’s New in Panopto?

Panopto's latest upgrade contains many new features including: audio description, student assignment submission (with Moodle plug-in for grading), reference copy and discussion notifications. All these new features enhance communications, accessibility and grading. 

Feb 21, 2022

New DELTA Workshops: Short and Sweet

DELTA offers workshops to help faculty brush up their skills in teaching with technology. Now offering more 30-minute workshops, DELTA provides options to better suit faculty members' busy schedules.