RSI & Meaningful Faculty Presence
Distinguish content and automation from real faculty interaction, then plan presence where it contributes to learning and meets applicable distance-education expectations.
Instructional Support
Instructional Practice
Strengthen what happens between faculty, students, and the learning — across disciplines, course formats, and teaching settings.
Faculty presence & RSI
Make teaching visible where students need it.
Useful when students need more than posted content — guidance, explanation, response, facilitation, coaching, and instructor-initiated interaction that supports learning.
Engagement & active learning
Give students something meaningful to do with the learning.
Useful when participation is passive, discussion is thin, activities feel disconnected, or you want students to think, decide, practice, explain, create, or solve during learning.
Active Faculty Engagement / Active Learning
Experience active learning as a learner, examine what makes participation meaningful, and redesign one real learning moment for your own course or teaching setting.
Meaningful Faculty Presence
Use instructor interaction purposefully alongside student activity rather than assuming interactivity alone creates engagement.
Authentic student work
Make student learning visible.
Useful when the current assessment format does not show the thinking, performance, judgment, process, or application you actually care about.
Authentic Student Work
Clarify the evidence you need, then choose or redesign an assessment method that captures it across academic, lab, clinical, shop, studio, technical, and field settings.
Beyond Multiple Choice
When quizzes are appropriate, use stronger Canvas New Quizzes formats to capture more than recognition or recall.
Meaningful feedback
Help students make a better next move.
Useful when feedback takes a great deal of time, arrives too late, is difficult for students to act on, or needs to connect more clearly to criteria and future performance.
Meaningful Feedback
Improve one feedback moment so students can identify what matters and what to do next without assuming more comments are always better.
Rubrics Made Easy
Use Canvas rubrics and SpeedGrader efficiently once your criteria and feedback approach are already clear.
Clear expectations
Reduce avoidable confusion without reducing challenge.
Useful when students ask recurring questions about an assignment, miss important logistics, misunderstand criteria, or spend effort figuring out the task rather than doing the learning.
Transparent Assignment Design
Make the purpose, task, criteria, logistics, examples, and support routes easier for students to locate and use.
Student Support & Technology Access
Surface what students need, when they need it, how they access it, where they get help, and what to do when the expected path fails.
Want to try this with support? Get Help can connect you to a live learning experience, Build Lab, department partnership, or course-support conversation.