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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Evidence-based Best Practices for Online Lectures (JHU SON)

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Infographic presenting best practices for online lectures.

Keywords: engagement, recordings, storytelling, chunking, video

Example Rubrics for Peer Assessment Tool

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When setting up a peer assessment inside CP, faculty can create their own rubrics or use and modify one of these example analytic or holistic rubrics.

Example Rubrics: Holistic and Analytic

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Provides an overview of a sample learning activity with examples of the two different types of rubrics that could be used to guide and assess the activity.

Examples of Schedule Builder Organization

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Provedes examples of how to organize the Schedule Builder in different ways and some considerations for each method.

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.

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Open Access Image Sources

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A list of open access image collections, requiring no paywall nor login to search the sources. This list is updated and expanded from an original compilation created by the Johns Hopkins Open Education Lab. The resources are categorized by scientific (government-supported and other) and non-scientific. Many have public domain, creative commons, or other liberal use policies.

keywords: images, OER

Overview of the New VoiceThread

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Side-by-side comparison of the legacy VoiceThread and the New (Summer 2024) VoiceThread interface.

POUR Questions for a Digitally Accessible Classroom

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This document provides a succinct list of questions to ask when selecting and creating resources for you classroom. The questions all relate to the digital accessibility principles of POUR: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.

Panopto Presentation as a Recorded Lecture

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An abbreviated guide to using Panopto as an option for a self-recorded lecture. This supplements the Toolkit’s Self-Recording Using Panopto page.

PowerPoint Best Practices Checklist

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Presents a checklist for maintaining an accessible presentation when working with an accessible template such as CTL's templates for BSPH academics.

PowerPoint Presentation as a Recorded Lecture

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An abbreviated guide to using PowerPoint as an option for a self-recorded lecture. This supplements the Toolkit’s Self-Recording Using PowerPoint page.

Quick Check for Digital Accessibility

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This document is written for anyone checking whether or not a document or website is digitally accessible. It goes beyond accessibility validations tools, like Microsoft's accessibility checker and Adobe Acrobat's accessibility full check. A user-friendly resource, the "quick inspection checklist" is written for the non-programmer, making it appropriate for faculty, staff, and students to check if something is POUR (perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust).

Recognizing and Assisting Students in Distress

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Guidance for Johns Hopkins University Faculty and Staff.

Also recommended: "Resources for Students Experiencing Stress (Slide for Students)" and "Recognizing and Assisting Students in Distress".

Recording Tips for Studio Recording

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Recommendations for recording audio-only lectures (optionally over PowerPoint presentations) with CTL, from the audio production team.

Resources for Students Experiencing Stress (Slide for Students)

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Can be used as part of a class introduction or just-in-time outreach to online or in-person classes.

Also available as a PDF.

Also recommended: "Student Distress: A Faculty and Staff Resource Guide" and "Recognizing and Assisting Students in Distress".

Keywords: student well-being, TimelyCare, student crisis, BSPH CARE team, behavioral health, mental health student support