Promos
Book a Boost Your Score! Event
Zoom or In Person
The CTT is now booking “Boost Your Score” sessions. To schedule an event for your department, fill out this quick interest form
During these sessions, faculty open their Canvas courses, use the Ally accessibility tool to identify issues, and get real-time support from instructional designers to improve course accessibility and boost Ally scores.
Let the STAR team help you find accessible & affordable course materials
As the spring semester wraps up and you are making decisions about course materials for upcoming classes, consider sharing a current syllabus or reading list for a course materials review with Successful Teaching with Affordable Resources (STAR) Team. In a recent UNL pilot, 89% of participating instructors discovered lower-cost options for selected course materials.
Let's get students to use their own brains!
Learning Community
- April 24, 2 pm, City Campus
- May 5, 11 am via Zoom
Let's create conditions for students to use their own brains. In this group, we will share the strategies that we’re finding useful, identify challenges in need of solution, and engage with scholarly literature to help find some answers. Contact Amy Ort at aort@unl.edu
Save the Date
Teaching and Learning Symposium
November 6, 2026, 9:00-3:00, East Campus Union.
Do you have an effective teaching practice you'd like to share? Know a colleague who's doing something amazing in their teaching? Let us know! This fall's symposium is all about excellence in UNL teaching.
Let us know!
Timely Tools for Student Success: End-of-Term
Help students prepare for finals
Craft and share a plan for helping students prepare for finals. Be as specific as possible. Suggest effective study strategies such as spaced practice, elaboration, interleaving, concrete examples, retrieval practice, or dual coding.
Submit Final Grades
If you set up a grading scheme in Canvas at the beginning of the term, you will be able to import grades from Canvas to MyRed. Instructions for manual entry along with importing from Canvas are available from the Office of the University Registrar.
Make notes on the syllabus
Take time to make notes on the course syllabus to inform the next iteration of the course.
Debrief with others
If you are the only instructor who teaches this course, consider debriefing with an instructional designer assigned to your college. Instructional designers love to hear how your course went and can help you research and identify solutions for challenges that came up during the term. Along with an instructional designer, consider debriefing with other instructors who teach the same course. If the course is part of a sequence, consider debriefing with instructors that teach other courses in the sequence.
Implement another element of the Inclusive Course Checklist
Take a look at the Inclusive Course Checklist and see if there are more items that you might tick off in preparation for teaching the course next time. Instructional designers can help review your course for opportunities and help you prioritize which changes may have the most impact.
Study Strategies that Work
The Learning Scientists YouTube Channel aims to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators. Towards this end, in addition to their videos, they provide a website chock full of resources and a podcast. Here are six succinctly described strategies your students can use as they prepare for final exams.
