best practices

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Feb 4, 2021

Zoom Tips for Smooth and Secure Meetings

Zoom has implemented updates regarding security, interactive tools and user-friendly features for more engaging meetings. Here is an overview of the improvements being made and when they take effect.

Feb 4, 2021

Best Practices for Managing Online Office Hours

How can instructors provide the best support to students who are learning online? Here are some ways to provide synchronous and asynchronous help that will benefit individual students and your entire class from DELTA Faculty Fellow Lina Battestilli.

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Feb 4, 2021

Tips for Working with a Teaching Assistant in an Online Course

Are you searching for ways to effectively use a teaching assistant (TA) in an online course? DELTA Faculty Fellow Julianne Treme is sharing her favorite tips to help your TA engage with your students and your course content online.

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Feb 4, 2021

Podcasting Makes the Airwaves at NC State

Podcasts are a popular form of entertainment, but they can also be a powerful tool for education. To learn what it takes to make a podcast at NC State, DELTA staffers created one of their own. Now, they're taking what they learned to help faculty use the medium to Think and Do.

Feb 2, 2021

Teaching the Pack: Maria Gallardo-Williams

Maria Gallardo-Williams of the Department of Chemistry is innovating with technology to bring the lab experience to students, wherever they are.

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Jan 21, 2021

Tips to Increase Student Engagement in Zoom Breakout Rooms

Using breakout rooms during a Zoom class meeting can provide opportunities for student-to-student interaction as well as instructor-to-student collaboration. Check out these new approaches to using Zoom breakout rooms.

Finding Your Path. Spring Workshops 2021.

Jan 5, 2021

Find Your Path with DELTA Spring Workshops

Registration is open for DELTA Spring Workshops! We’re here to help you keep climbing toward your goals and positively impact student success. From learning to use Moodle and Zoom to best practices for facilitating engagement, DELTA workshops can help you take your teaching to the next level — in online, hybrid and face-to-face environments.

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Jan 4, 2021

Count on DELTA in 2021

As the university continues to employ a mix of in-person, hybrid and online learning for the upcoming spring semester, DELTA is here to listen, to support and to help you create the best teaching and learning environment possible. Here are some helpful resources to make your spring the best it can be.

Dec 21, 2020

Takeaways from 2020 Conferences: A New Normal

Members of the DELTA team attended and presented at the virtual 2020 conferences to exchange best practices in teaching with technology with others in the higher education world. Nine DELTA staff members share their key takeaways from these conferences.

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Dec 11, 2020

Moodle and Other Tech Tips from an Instructional Designer

After years of curating design, LMS, teaching and general computing hacks, DELTA Instructional Designer Jennifer Tagsold is sharing her list of workarounds and helpful tips. Consider these tips as you plan your next course.