Featured Resources
Last updated: May 5, 2025
These featured resources are curated to help with your instructional needs. Some of the resources provide links to additional resources for those wanting to learn more.
CITL's Support Centre is available to answer inquiries from instructors and students related to teaching and learning, technical support for learning technologies (including Brightspace, Online Rooms and Webex) and examinations for online courses. The Support Centre is available seven days a week with extended evening and weekend hours.
For instructors
Looking for a specific CITL service? Explore our Service Guide for Instructors, or request a consultation.
General information
- Teaching your first course: things to know
- Humanizing learning experiences
- Introduction to classroom technology (video)
- Using Lecture Capture
- How-to guides for on-campus classroom technology
- Memorial's Writing Centre: resources and services for instructors
- FUSION: self-directed learning modules for critical skill development
- Academic Success Centre: resources for instructors and staff
Generative AI and your teaching
- Generative artificial intelligence syllabus statements
- Talking to students about generative AI
- Student decision tree (handout)
- Citation and reference guide: generative AI
- Artificial intelligence (AI) text generation: considerations for teaching and learning
Academic integrity
- Academic integrity
- Promoting academic integrity through assessment design
- Librarians and Learning Designers on Academic Integrity: A Proactive Approach
Assessment and evaluation
- Estimating student hours of effort (includes workload estimator tool)
- Bulletproofing online assessments
- Podcasting as an assessment approach
- Creating a peer review assignment
- Video assignment: an authentic assessment approach
- Open Book Assessments
- Creating and using rubrics
- Rubrics in Brightspace
- Promoting student interaction through whole-class or group-based online discussions
- Supporting student progress in Brightspace
Delivery methods
- Understanding Memorial’s undergraduate delivery modes
- Flipped Classroom approach
- Classroom management
- Guide for preparing your course for remote or online learning
- Strategies for facilitating synchronous online classes (remote instruction)
- Strategies for facilitating asynchronous classes (online instruction)
- Introduction to flexible instruction
- Mersive: wireless collaboration technology
Accessibility
- Principles of accessibility
- Addressing informal accommodation requests
- Accessibility checklists for Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint files and Adobe PDF documents
Documenting teaching effectiveness
- Writing a teaching philosophy
- Preparing a teaching dossier: practical advice
- Providing evidence of teaching effectiveness
- Peer review of teaching
- Soliciting student feedback
Communities of practice
More professional learning opportunities
- Instructor Series (webinars)
- Learning Technology Series (webinars)
- Instructional Resources (self-guided)
- What's new in Brightspace: monthly updates
- Technology Resources (self-guided)
- CITL YouTube
- eXplore: GenAI
For students
The Academic Success Centre has a growing library of learning skills resources that can help guide students from the first day of class to the last day of the semester, and beyond. And the Writing Centre provides writing-related help to Memorial undergraduate and graduate students in any subject, discipline, program or faculty. Here are some resources from both centres that you can share to help students have a successful semester.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Citation and reference guide: generative AI
- Artificial intelligence and your academic work (MUN Libraries)
Learning strategies
Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL)
For learners in online courses
- CITL Student Resources
- Orientation sessions for new online learners
- Online learning strategies
- Online course exam information
Managing time
- Semester and weekly planning, including a Spring 2025 semester-at-a-glance calendar
- Setting SMART goals
- Writing Centre planning tools
- Overcoming procrastination
Tests and exams
Staying connected
Writing for academic success
- Peer tutor appointments (online and in-person)
- Workshops (online)
- Handouts (punctuation, grammar, writing process, style, discipline-specific and essay myths)
- Online interactive activities (grammar and punctuation)