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Toolkit Library

This full library contains our stand-alone resources, most of which are authored by the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Here you will find templates, guides, handouts, and video tutorials that CTL has created for the Bloomberg School of Public Health. You will also find links to these items on various pages across our website. See the Toolkit Shelf for the items the CTL Instructional Design Team is spotlighting this term.

Our resources are extensive. We have organized them alphabetically for you to browse. However, you may also search the collection by resource title and/or key words.

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Brainstorming: Increasing Engagement/Participation in Face-to-face Courses

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Considerations and suggested methods for student-active breaks, student polling and surveys, back channel communication, peer learning and assessment, and online asynchronous interactions.


Keywords: engagement, active learning

CTL Basic (HTML) Website Accessibility Recommendations for Faculty & Students

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Recommended practices for building accessible websites, based of the WCAG 2.0 (Web content accessibility guidelines) checklist and recommendation.

CTL Basic Document Accessibility Recommendations

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Recommended practices for building accessible electronic documents, based off WEbAIM’s Rich Media Accessibility recommendations, Adobe PDF Accessibility guidelines, and the GSA Section508 Accessibility Program.

Campus Closure Contingency Options​

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Summary of default contingency policy and recommendations for faculty communications and instruction.

Campus Closure? Learning Doesn’t Stop

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(14:23 video) Along with its companion automated transcript [.txt], summary of default contingency policy and recommendations for faculty communications and instruction. Includes recommendations from BSPH faculty’s experience. 

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FAQs for Using AI in Teaching and Learning at BSPH

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This document provides a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and their answers regarding using artificial intelligence (AI) in BSPH academics. This information supplements the Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning guidance on our Toolkit site. In addition, the University’s Teaching @ JHU offers a broader resource – Generative AI Tool Guidance – to the entire JHU community.

Facilitating Interactive Discussion Forums

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Considerations for facilitating asynchronous online discussions.


Keywords: engagement, discussion forum, prompt

Faculty Procedures for Preparing New Courses

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Overview of timeline for developing new courses starting nine months prior to a course’s opening date.

Faculty Procedures for Recurring Online Courses

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Overview of timeline for developing new courses starting 16 weeks prior to a course’s opening date.

Getting Started with a PathFinder Activity

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This document is a guide for anyone developing a CoursePlus PathFinder Activity. Refer to the accompanying template [.docx] to gather thoughts for your unique activity.

Getting to Know the New VoiceThread

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An introduction to the new (Summer 2024) VoiceThread interface.

Giving Feedback in LiveTalks’ Zoom Meetings

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Guidance, adapted from Zoom’s support site, on participating with nonverbal, audio, and video participation.

Guest and Student Presentations in Zoom

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Overview of key presenting techniques within the web meeting platform.

Guidelines for Recording Class Meetings

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From the university's registrar, these are the expectations set for managing and sharing classroom (and online class sessions) recordings with respect to FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). The ethos is to prevent unwarranted and unintentional sharing of students' personally identifiable information, including sharing class meeting recordings beyond their original educational purposes.

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