Faculty Resources
Instructional Design at the School of Nursing
What can the Instructional Design Team do for you?
Penn Nursing ITS offers individualized training for faculty and technical support during course preparation and delivery. The team offers assistance and support for instructional design, customized course creation, technology and platform training, individualized practice sessions, tutorials, video editing and more. Technical support is available to all faculty members and students during their course preparation and delivery, as well as during live sessions as needed. For more information, please contact the ITS Service Desk.
Whether you’re new to incorporating technology into your classes or have been doing it for years, the Instructional Design team wants to help you get the most out of the tools available to you at Penn. We’re happy to meet with you face-to-face, by phone, or in a web-conference to help you use our learning management system as well as a variety of instructional tools.
We can help you:
- Get started with Canvas
- Follow best practices for presenting course content online
- Create engaging video lectures
- Use new educational technology tools
- Organize your course to help students stay on track
- Build activities that facilitate a variety of assessment methods (like peer review)
To get started, please contact Erin Marshall, Online Learning and Instructional Design Manager.
For course development help, contact us at least 4 weeks before the first day of your course.
Need help getting started started on your Canvas course website?
As a first step, request a course site on Canvas. Canvas sites are not generated automatically for every course; they are created upon request by the instructor.
Course site requests should be submitted no later than 3 weeks prior to the start of the semester.
The Penn Canvas support team at the library offers assistance with technical questions and issues related to Canvas, and completes new course site requests. Contact canvas@pobox.upenn.edu.
Need a quick Canvas tutorial? Browse the Canvas Instructor Guide, or get Penn-specific Canvas help and tips by visiting the Canvas at Penn blog.