Peer Review
Teaching Center staff can work with you or your department to identify or develop protocols and/or tools tailored to the needs of you or your department to conduct peer reviews and observations of teaching.
Planning Assessment of Teaching
The Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) created a set of recommendations to expand and improve assessment of teaching effectiveness at Pitt, including the recommendation that academic units should create assessment of teaching plans.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: LGBTQIA+ Pride Syllabus
Resources and guidance for incorporating readings and activities relating to LGBTQIA+ Pride into your courses.
How to Support Students in Distress or Coping with Trauma
Guidance and some Dos and Don'ts on best practices for teaching during times of crisis.
Using My Pitt Video and Panopto Folder Settings
This article contains guidance on how to use Panopto to store, organize, and share the videos you create.
Using Turnitin with Canvas
Canvas features two ways to integrate Turnitin plagiarism-checking technology into your assignments.
Use Respondus to Upload and Download Tests to Canvas
Respondus is a tool that can help instructors take a quiz created in a text format document (like Microsoft Word) and import it into Canvas in such a way that Canvas can use it to create a Quiz.
Creating Accessible Courses for Remote Learning
With the move to remote learning, the need for accessible course materials and the demand on time and resources have increased. View a recording of a session where we explore principles of accessibility and how they impact people with disabilities in remote learning environments.
Qualtrics Survey System
All Pitt faculty and staff have access to Qualtrics, an anonymous online survey creator. Surveys can be used to collect information, get anonymous feedback, and provides secure storage of all survey data, which can be analyzed within Qualtrics or exported to different file formats.
Using OMET Teaching Surveys in Canvas
There is a direct connection between the OMET Teaching Survey tool and Canvas. This article will help you roll out the surveys for your students in Canvas.