Faculty Compass: Teaching
Prepare Your Course
Get started with planning your course using these recommendations for structuring your syllabus, selecting readings, and designing and organizing your course.
Countdown for Course Preparation
Syllabus Design
Course Materials and Readings
Course Design Process
Learning Objectives
Online Learning
Teach Your Course
Make the learning process more active and engaging by incorporating research-based strategies, learning activities, and best practices to increase students' learning and deepen mastery of what they learned. Learn how to address common teaching challenges.
Active Learning
Teaching Strategies
Teaching Challenges
Lectures and Presentations
Best Practices for Teaching
Expectations Management
Clinical Teaching
Assess Student Learning
Strategies and techniques for assessing student learning.
The Importance of Assessment
Grading Student Work
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Planning Quizzes and Exams
Planning Major Projects
Rubrics
Academic Integrity
Teach with Technology
Improve the student experience by incorporating educational technologies, such as clickers and lecture capture, to enhance your course.
D2L
Classroom Response Systems
Lecture Capture
Presentation Voice-Overs
Faculty Support
Resources and support services that can assist you with your teaching.
Instructional Design Consultations
MGH Institute Help Desk
Workshops and Events
Online Tutorials
Teaching Resource Library
Snow Day Guide
Teaching Development Domains
Peer Review of Teaching