teaching with technology

Feb 24, 2023

DELTA Instructional Consultation: What’s it Like?

If you need guidance on course design, teaching strategies or instructional tools, DELTA can help. These brainstorming sessions are designed to discover the optimal approach for your course content creation, organization and delivery. DELTA experts can help you at any point in the process!

Feb 24, 2023

Accessibility Tip: Formatting Headings

Headings provide information about the organizational structure for screen readers and sighted users alike. Sighted users and screen readers both skim through a document looking for the relevant sections and properly formatted headings are what makes this possible. Making text bolder and larger is not the same thing as creating headers. Use the built-in headers,…

Feb 24, 2023

LearnTech Implements Knowledge-Centered Service Approach to Enhance Self-Service Offerings

The Instructional Technology Support (IST) team revamped its process for creating and publishing knowledge articles to enhance self-service resources for faculty and staff. In addition, a new Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) channel exists in the DELTA Slack workspace to expand the reach beyond the LearnTech team across campus.

Photo of DELTA Faculty Scholar Sarah Egan Warren, who studies what data tells us about teaching, students’ learning and processes

Feb 20, 2023

Meet DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren

Assistant Teaching Professor and DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren looks for innovative methods that support her teaching initiatives and students. She’s excited to explore further what we can learn from data about our teaching, our students' learning and our processes.

Wolf Plaza during fall. Photo by Marc Hall.

Feb 18, 2023

IntelliBoard Encourages Faculty Intervention

Want a simple way to discover which students need support before the first project or exam is due? A new enterprise tool, IntelliBoard, provides analytics that answer this question, and we have the inside scoop from DELTA Faculty Fellows about their experience with the tool.

Feb 13, 2023

Three Classroom Strategies for ChatGPT

Ready or not, ChatGPT has arrived and similar Chatbot releases are on the horizon. DELTA Faculty Fellow Sarah Egan Warren shares an overview of this new release as well as three teaching strategies to assist in working with this new platform.

Jan 25, 2023

What’s New in Zoom for Spring 2023

It’s hard to believe that three years ago, many of us at NC State had never participated in a Zoom meeting…much less hosted one. Then, suddenly in March 2020, we did everything via Zoom that we used to do in person. Read Instructional Technologist Jill Anderson’s tips on what’s new!

Jan 25, 2023

WolfSNAPS: Reaching All Learners

If you are looking for help with making your course content accessible, sign up for a WolfSNAPS session! This resource is utilized to assist the needs of all students by implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. They are short 30 to 90 minute courses designed to help you improve accessibility.

Jan 24, 2023

Accessibility Tip: Easily Access Alternative Formats for Course Files

To help ensure equal access to files for all members of our diverse student population, NC State has acquired a license to SensusAccess, a “one-stop self-service, alternate media and document remediation service for educational institutions.” With this tool, students, faculty and staff can convert documents to a range of alternative formats like audio, e-book or digital…

Jan 23, 2023

Meet DELTA Faculty Fellow Carrol Warren

Assistant Teaching Professor and Faculty Scholar Carrol Warren is committed to using instructional technology to create an inclusive online classroom space for her students. As a DELTA Faculty Fellow, she shares her knowledge of the learning technologies and teaching methods to achieve this goal.