Resources

Course Design and Online Teaching

• For Your Online Students
  • Canvas Student Orientations
    • PSU: Canvas Student Orientation
    • World Campus Canvas Orientation
  • Are You Ready to Be an Online Learner? (Web Learning @ PSU)
  • Online Learning Readiness Questionnaire
  • Learning Online – Are You Ready? (iStudy)
  • Plagiarism Tutorial for Students (PSU TLT)
• Faculty Self-Assessment: Preparing for Online Teaching (Web Learning @ PSU)
• Best Practices and Expectations for Online Teaching (John A. Dutton e-Education Institute)
• Managing Your Online Class (John A. Dutton e-Education Institute)
• Penn State Quality Assurance e-Learning Design Standards (Web Learning @ PSU)
• Distance Education Glossary (Web Learning @ PSU)
• Course Design Checklist (Web Learning @ PSU)
• PSU Student Rating of Teaching Effectiveness (SRTEs) (Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs)
  • SRTEs Resources (Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence)

Other Instructional Design and Technology Supports

• Accessibility and Usability @ Penn State – This site provides useful information regarding how to ensure Web pages and how online documents can be made usable for users with different disabilities.
• Ed Tech Advisor (ETA) – ETA enables you to match pedagogical needs to ed tech resources available at Penn State.
• EdTech Network – The Penn State EdTech Network is building relationships between the Penn State community and technology leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs. These relationships are creating exciting opportunities for collaborative development of new solutions, services and research projects, with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and their potential impact on higher learning.
• IT Learning and Development – Something for everyone. Whether you are Penn State faculty, staff, or students, we have the technology training solutions to best suit your needs.
• John A. Dutton e-Education Institute – The John A. Dutton e-Education Institute Faculty Development site is full of resources that will help you plan, develop, teach and assess your students, and evaluate your online courses.
• Penn State Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative – This site serves as a clearinghouse for Open Educational Resources (OER)/low cost material information across the university.
• PSU IT Knowledge Base – This site serves as a online library of various information about different PSU tools and technologies. The available knowledge base can include FAQs, step-by-step instructions, troubleshooting procedures, and any other tips and tricks.
• Schreyer Institute for Teaching and Learning – Schreyer Institute for Teaching and Learning provides wide-range of support to Penn State’s teaching and learning community including any person involved with Penn State students in an instructional context. The unit primarily works with faculty (of any rank or title) and graduate students that also includes advisors, administrators and staff.
• Teaching & Learning with Technology – Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) works to guide the University in the appropriate use of technology to enrich teaching and learning. TLT services provide the basis for many of the core technologies that drive PSU classrooms, labs, and other learning environments.
• Web Learning @ Penn State 
• Woodward Center for Excellence in Health Sciences Education – The vision of the Woodward Center is to be a community energized to grow together as educators and learners. The Woodward Center offers a variety of programs designed to improve health sciences education and recognize great educators at Penn State College of Medicine.
• World Campus Online Faculty Development – Online Faculty Development offers a variety of programs to provide faculty and instructors with the tools and resources to teach in the online environment and deliver engaging, high quality courses. Whether you are a full professor or graduate teaching assistant, our faculty development programs provide meaningful content and strategies that can also complement traditional resident instruction or be used as standalone resources.

Instructional Technology and Tools for Teaching and Learning

• Box @ Penn State – Box at Penn State offers secure, content-rich, and user-friendly content sharing. Box allows content to be stored online, so it can be accessed, managed, and shared from anywhere. Access Box on mobile devices or seamlessly sync files to your laptop or desktop computer.
• CANVAS @ Penn State – Canvas is the official Penn State’s Learning Management System (LMS).
• Kaltura – Kaltura is Penn State’s enterprise-level, cloud-based media management platform for storing, publishing, and streaming videos, video collections, and other media. Kaltura will work in tandem with Zoom, the University’s conferencing system, to help users record, store, and stream media.
• LionPATH – LionPATH is Penn State’s student information system, which provides students with access to their academic, registration, and financial records.  Students can enroll for classes, view/accept their financial aid awards, and view their tuition bills.
• Respondus – Respondus 4.0 is an assessment tool allowing you to create and manage exams that can be published directly to CANVAS LMS or printed for paper-based exams. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment and can also be moved from one LMS to another.
• Turnitin – Turnitin is a web-based writing assessment toolkit which allows instructors to provide feedback to students through markup tools, rubrics, proofing tools and originality reports to detect plagiarism. Turnitin also provides peer review options.
• VoiceThread – VoiceThread is a totally web-based application that allows you to place collections of media like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of an asynchronous conversation. A VoiceThread allows people to have conversations and to make comments using any mix of text, a microphone, a web cam, a telephone, or uploaded audio file.
• Yammer – Yammer is a private social network powered by Microsoft.  Penn State members can connect with people from across the University community and share meaningful information.  Some of the uses of Yammer include collaborating on team projects, getting updates on what others are working on, asking questions, sharing ideas, receiving feedback, creating and editing content, and planning events.
• Zoom – Zoom video conferencing allows you to engage in multi-person video or audio meetings using software installed on your computer, without the need for dedicated video conferencing hardware. Zoom combines cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-defined conference room solution into one easy-to-use platform.