Additional Resources

The following web sites and documents offer a variety of suggestions and "better practices" for remote teaching. Many are specific to the schools that produced them, but all offer useful advice that can be adapted

Instructional Continuity Planning

• Quick Start Guide for Developing an Instructional Continuity Plan (CAT Food Blog)
• Preparing to Teach During an Interruption: Strategies for Maintaining Instructional Continuity Workshop (CAT+FD Workshop)
  • Workshop Presentation Slides
  • Workshop Recording (8/29/2018) - 46 minutes
• Instructional Continuity Planning Worksheets (Washington College)
  • ICP Planning Guide worksheet (pdf)
  • ICP Planning Outline worksheet (pdf)
• Instruction Continuity Plan Examples (Georgetown University)

Emergency Remote Teaching

• Teaching Effectively During Times of Disruption (Jenae Cohn and Beth Seltzer, Stanford University)
• Resources for Online Meetings, Classes and Events (Nancy White and Facilitators for Pandemic Response Group)
• Remote Exam Kit (Office of Academic Innovation, Portland State University)
• Best Practices for Online Tests (Center for Teaching Excellence, Pepperdine University)
• Putting some of your course content online in a hurry? We have resources for you! (Stacey Johnson, Vanderbilt University)
• Going Online in a Hurry (Michelle D. Miller, Chronicle of Higher Ed)
• Prepare to Move Online (in a Hurry) (Nathan Greeno, Inside Higher Ed)

Brightspace Resources

• Brightspace How-to Guides (CAT Food Blog)
• Brightspace Tips (CAT Food Blog)
• Brightspace Help (Desire2Learn)
• Brightspace YouTube Channel (YouTube)
• Brightspace Community (Desire2Learn)
• Which Brightspace Tool should I use? (Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Memorial University)
• Embed Web 2.0 Tools in your Brightspace Course (Millersville University)

Resources for Technology Tools

• Blog, Wiki or Forum - which should you use? (University of New South Wales - Sydney)
• 50 Web Tools (CAT Food Blog)
• Be Ready for Mother Nature with VoiceThreads (CAT Food Blog)
• Technology for Academics (Sue Frantz, Technology for Academics)
• Virtual Laboratories in Teaching and Learning Science (Scientix Blog)
• Learning Outcomes/Technology Tools Matrix (University of New South Wales - Sydney)

Accessibility Resources

• Accessibility in Education
• Brightspace Accessibility Information
  • D2L Committed to Accessibility in Education
  • About Accessible Courses and Accessible Course Content
  • Brightspace Accessibility and Navigation
  • Accessibility and Navigation in Brightspace - Learner Guide
• Tips for Creating Accessible Content
  • Headings
  • Text Formatting
  • Descriptive Links
  • Alternative Text (Alt Text)
  • Describing Complex Images
  • Lists
  • Tables
  • Creating Accessible Course Content In Microsoft Word
  • Creating Accessible Course Content In Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Six Tips For Making Online Courses Accessible
• Introduction to Web Accessibility
• Open Education Resources (OER) and Accessibility
• CAST - Universal Design for Learning
• Purdue University - Web Accessibility
• Microsoft Accessibility Resources
• Adobe PDF Accessibility: Best Practices

Instructional Continuity Plan Examples

The information on this page has been developed, in part, by adapting material, with permission, from the Indiana University [1] website. The “Keep Teaching” content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License by the Trustees of Indiana University.