New Instructors

Teaching Center: individual, group, and grant programs and services

Writing, Speaking & Argument Program

Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, grant programs (Sykes and HICAT)

Teaching Center new instructor guidelines page links to policies

Office of Educational Effectiveness

Office of Disability Resources – provides support for instructors in developing accessible course materials, including digital materials, using evidence-based practices, such as Universal Design for Learning, and provides training for instructors in accessible and inclusive classrooms.

River Campus Libraries – provides support for instructors in creating and locating open access and accessible course materials, such as open educational resources, digitization services, and course reserves.

Center for Community Engagement – provides support and funding for instructors interested in incorporating community-engaged learning into their new or existing courses.

Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections

Office of Online Learning – offers a series of “how to” workshops for instructors interested in teaching online. The series covers everything from giving live or recorded lectures, using various discussion board tools, giving an online test, and providing a platform for asynchronous student presentations.

Teaching Center – offers best practices on designing and teaching online, hybrid, and physically-distanced courses.

River Campus Libraries – offers resources for creating digital projects and DigITaL, an online publication of digital lesson plans and resources.

Office of Disability Resources – provides guidance in accessible online teaching, including course design and assessment practices.

River Campus Libraries – provides support for instructors interested in teaching students how to conduct research, including creating customized research lessons, developing research guides, and design thinking.

Writing, Speaking and Argument Program – provides support for instructors interested in teaching students to write academic research papers, including workshops for instructors, courses in research design and writing for students, and advice on how to provide students feedback on written work.

Event and Classroom Management – supports learning technology in the classroom, including classroom projectors and av equipment, Panopto lecture capture, Smart Boards, equipment loans, and one-on-one or group training in effective use of technology in particular learning spaces. They also maintain the public computer labs and provide students access to specialized software required for courses.

AS&E Instructional Technology Services – supports learning technology in the classroom, including Zoom and wireless connectivity.

Blackboard Course Management System (learn.rochester.edu) – An online resource for faculty to manage grades, post and view assignments, and more.

GradeScope – Automate some grading tasks for a variety of exam types, including mathematical calculations, multiple choice, bubble sheets and short answers.

Panopto – Record audio, video, and screen casts of software applications, such as PowerPoint and Excel, from your computer screen for integrated playback later only for students registered for your class.

Poll Everywhere – capture live, in-class feedback from students and implement surveys, polls, quizzes, and word clouds across remote and hybrid platforms, including Zoom and Blackboard, and even embed them into your Power Point slides.

One Button Studio – record professional, instructional videos quickly and easily with just the touch of a button! Lightboards are also available.

Qwickly Attendance – an easy-to-use tool that enables you to take attendance that is automatically graded in the Blackboard Grade Center.

Zoom Video and Web Conferencing – training and resources for using zoom web conferencing software as part of the University of Rochester community.

Additional technology resources related to teaching and learning can be found on the University IT website.

UR Student (Workday) – support for using the University’s student administrative system to assign and change grades, approve/deny course registration requests, view and print course rosters and view teaching schedule.

Entering Final Grades – final grades are submitted through UR Student and step-by-step instructions for how to do this can be found on Assigning Final Grades in UR Student (pdf).

Course Evaluations – support for accessing your student course evaluation data within the Assessment, Evaluation, Feedback, Intervention System (AEFIS).