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Thursday, July 3, 2025
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  • Fostering Effective Group Work in College Classes
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  • Part 2: The AI Marble Layer Cake – Reconsidering In-Class and Out-of-Class Learning & Assessment
  • Part 1: Beyond AI Detection – Rethinking Academic Assessments 
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Virtual Teaching Tips

These “tips sheets” were created as short, printable (pdfs) teaching guides for this fall. They offer the pedagogical reasoning and concrete suggestions

Tips for All Teaching Modalities

  • Tune-in:  Staying Connected with Students

Tips for Synchronous Teaching

  • Let’s Chat: Engaging Students in the Zoom Chat Space
  • Using Breakout Rooms in Zoom
  • Fun and Learning with Zoom Whiteboards
  • Checking in with Students using Poll Everywhere
  • Warming Up and Cooling Down: Prompts to Engage Students in Synchronous Sessions

Tips for Asynchronous Teaching

  • Asynchronous Discussions in Canvas
  • Engaging Students in Active Learning Asynchronously

Tips for Face-To-Face & Hybrid Teaching

  • Dual Modality Teaching
  • A Checklist for the Hybrid – Dual Modality Classroom
  • Dividing Students into Alternating Face-to-Face Groups
  • Labs and Hands-On Experiments

See Also

Preparing for fall 2020

Online Teaching

Teaching@Tufts > TEACHING > APPROACHES TO TEACHING > Online Teaching > Virtual Teaching Tips

Timely Resources

  • Designing Courses in the Age of AI
  • Designing a Course
  • Designing Group Projects
  • Integrating Anti-Racist Teaching Practices into Your Course
  • The First Day of Class
  • Multi-Modality Classrooms
  • New Faculty

Recent Posts

  • Fostering Effective Group Work in College Classes
  • Part 4: Serving the AI Layer Cake in Your Classroom? Educational Technology Can Help
  • Part 3: Conversations about Cheating – Revisiting AI & Academic Integrity
  • Part 2: The AI Marble Layer Cake – Reconsidering In-Class and Out-of-Class Learning & Assessment
  • Part 1: Beyond AI Detection – Rethinking Academic Assessments 
  • Addressing Academic Integrity in the Age of AI 
  • Tufts Faculty Working Together to Teach for Racial Equity
  • Giving Feedback on Student Writing

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