Faculty Learning Hub

January 9, 2023

More Ways to Up Engagement in Your Synchronous Online Class

Reading Time: 5 minutes Creating Opportunities for Higher Levels of Engagement Students experience higher learning gains when they are taught through a more interactive classroom (Knight & Wood, 2005)....

Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching

January 9, 2023

Pathway – Orienting to Technology at Conestoga

Reading Time: < 1 minute Welcome to Conestoga! As part of your initial welcome to the college, you’ve likely received some information about the technical supports and services available to...

Classroom Tech/New Faculty/Teaching/Tech For Teaching

January 8, 2023

Pathway – Read your Course Outline

Reading Time: < 1 minute Are you getting ready to teach a course for the first time? Your course outline is a map to help guide you. This walkthrough will help clarify how best to read your course outline.

New Faculty/Teaching

January 7, 2023

Pathway – Find your Timetable and Delivery Mode

Reading Time: < 1 minute This learning path helps you to find out your teaching schedule: how, when, and where you are teaching your course.

New Faculty/Teaching

January 6, 2023

Pathway – Review Materials Provided

Reading Time: 2 minutes View this video learning pathway on reviewing materials provided to confirm where and how to access resources for your course.

New Faculty/Teaching

January 6, 2023

Pathway – Access and Use eConestoga

Reading Time: 2 minutes Access and learn about eConestoga, the LMS used to provide the Essential Elements for all courses.

eConestoga/New Faculty/Teaching

January 5, 2023

Pathway – Prepare the First Email to Students

Reading Time: < 1 minute View this video introduction to the learning path on what to include in a first course email message, how to send the message, and when to send it.

New Faculty/Teaching

January 4, 2023

Pathway – Preparing For your First Lesson

Reading Time: < 1 minute This learning path aims to inform and support you as you prepare to teach your first lesson. What’s Next? Before the first lesson For resources...

New Faculty/Teaching

December 20, 2022

Assessment Types

Reading Time: 6 minutes Conestoga provides students with a wide range of assessment types. This tip describes the goals for choosing evaluation types, explains how discrete assessments fall within...

Assessing Learning/Creating Assessments/Lesson and Course Planning

December 5, 2022

Adding Video or Audio Feedback to Assignments

Reading Time: 5 minutes On average, students will likely review the feedback you offer in your assignments as many as three times (Anson et al., 2016). Yet, to many...

Assessing Learning/eConestoga/Rubrics and Marking/Student Focused Assessment/Teaching/Tech For Teaching