Resources to Start the Semester | The Teaching & Learning Centre | Seneca Polytechnic

Welcome to the winter 2022 semester! Here are some resources to help you start this new semester.

We are excited to share our tips to help you start the semester: 10 Teaching Tips to Launch Your Online Course (PDF).
Want more great ideas for an excellent start to the semester? Visit the Teaching & Learning Centre website and check out our Teaching Tips and Course Resources.

Visit our Learn@Seneca page for a PDF checklist to help you meet the minimum requirements policy elements and some step-by-step instructions to help you set up your Learn@Seneca courses.

Check out our Getting Started with Online Teaching nutshell. Our nutshells are quick, self-paced, online professional learning modules for faculty that each take approximatley 30 minutes to complete.
In this nutshell, you'll consider the benefits and challenges of teaching online, and what strategies we might use to minimize disruption to learning. We'll provide some guidance on how faculty and instructors can model effective communication online and encourage time management techniques for their students.

There are four Web conferencing Platforms at Seneca and we have resources to help you teach with all of them: Teaching with BigBlueButton, Teaching with Microsoft Teams, Teaching with Webex, and Teaching with Zoom. We also have information and resources to help you choose which platform will work best for you in any teaching situation.

The Teaching & Learning Centre hosted New Faculty Orientation on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.

We created a Wakelet space for the resources we mentioned at New Faculty Orientation, plus additional ones that might be helpful: https://wakelet.com/@Seneca_NFO.
The handouts and presentations from some of the sessions are also available in this Wakelet space. We’ll add more as they become available to us.

The Learn@Seneca Essentials webinar (Jan. 2022) recording is available.

We are also making the recording of the entire New Faculty Orientation available.
Please note that this recording will be available until the end of February 2022. The Learn@Seneca Essentials portion will continue to be available after that time.

If you have any questions, you can contact us at teaching@senecacollge.ca.

All the best with the start of the new semester!

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