LibGuides: Faculty & Staff Resources: Teaching Resources

Looking for new ways to provide information or get students interacting more? Planning to update your lectures, assignments, or handouts?

Check out some of these online learning tools and other resources!

Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Resources for Maryland Libraries
This library guide from the Maryland State Library includes a collection of resources for supporting DEI initiatives related to instruction, leadership, training, and more.

Creating (or Updating) Assignments

Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA)
CORA is "an open educational resource (OER) for librarians, faculty, and other educators. It is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with research assignments and sharing the success or lessons learned so that others may benefit."

Assignment Design Checklist
This document was created for the Writing Across the Curriculum Committee's assignment design workshop.

Hypothes.is
Collaborative annotation tool.
Quizizz
Real-time or asynchronous quizzes, polling, lessons, and more.
Nearpod
Interactive slides, videos, gamification, and activities.
Mentimeter
Live polling during presentations.
Padlet
Board that students can add to (with anonymous options) to answer questions, provide feedback, and more.
Quizlet
Live quizzes and polling.
Genial.ly
Create interactive documents/images that can be used for infographics, guides, training materials, games, presentations, videos, and more.

Powtoon
Create animated videos. Free version limits videos to 3 minutes.
Edpuzzle
Add interactive features and commentary to an existing video.
Playposit
Interactive video. Classroom Basic plan is free.
InVideo
Free online video maker with slide presentation style and other options.

Canva
Free web-based design tool for creating infographics, flyers, posters, handouts, videos, and more.
MindMup
Online tool for mind mapping. [free version]
Coggle
Online tool for creating mind maps and flowcharts. [free version]
Timetoast
Create (visually effective) timelines.
Word Art
Create word cloud images from URLs or entered text.