Support for You: Teaching

Index of Teaching Support

Center for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) promotes effective, innovative, and evidence-based college teaching that cultivates significant learning for St. Edward’s students. The CTE fosters a campus culture that values a diversity of learning, teaching, and disciplinary styles; assists St. Edward’s faculty in developing courses; facilitates the exchange of ideas about teaching and learning among faculty; offers resources for faculty, collaborates with Instructional Technology to promote technology resources for teaching; and recognizes outstanding teachers with teaching awards.

  • Visit the CTE Website: the website provides information on upcoming programs, award deadlines, and CTE-sponsored honors.
  • Access the Teaching Support collaborative materials to review program resources, a teaching support calendar of events, and curated resources
  • Reach out to Jennifer Jefferson (jennej@stedwards.edu), the CTE Director, to set up a one-on-one confidential teaching support meeting

Munday Library

With access to the Munday Library and its services, you can:

  • Find Course Materials:
    • Library Catalog: Munday Library has over a million resources including ebooks, journal articles, streaming videos, images and archival materials. Try out the simple and advanced search engines.
    • Databases: The library provides access to over 100 databases that contain content specialized by academic area or resource type. Search them all at once through the library catalog, or go straight to a specific database.
      • eBooks and Journals: Accessible through the library catalog; see our guided walkthrough videos.
      • Video Platforms/Streaming Media: Films on Demand, Docuseek, Alexander Street Collections (Academic Video Online (AVON), Counseling and Therapy in Video, and Theatre in Video), Digital Theatre Plus
    • Open Textbooks and Open Educational Resources: Find free, openly licensed resources to reduce course material costs.
  • Adding Materials to Your Course
  • Library Instruction Program
    • The library instruction program focuses on concepts of information literacy, as articulated in the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Library instructors work with faculty to plan and lead instruction sessions that integrate information literacy concepts and skills that align with the course’s research objectives. Contact Brittney Johnson at bjohnso1@stedwards.edu for more information and to schedule instruction sessions for your class.
  • Get Student Research Support: Librarians provide research assistance to faculty and students on drop in basis or through appointments scheduled through bit.ly/MundayResearch. You can also get help by email (library@stedwards.edu) or phone (512.416.5869).
  • Archives and Special Collections: The Archives and Special Collections of St. Edward’s University, housed in the Munday Library, consist of thousands of feet of historically significant materials including paper and electronic records, as well as photographs, films, rare books, and art. These materials are available for research use by appointment
  • Co-located Services: The Digital Media Center and the Writing Center are co-located services in the library.
  • Global Digital Classrooms: LIB 143 provides students, faculty and staff real-time, HD-quality video conferencing capabilities. Room reservations are coordinated by the Registrar’s Office.

Instructional Technology and the Digital Media Center

The Instructional Technology department within the Office of Information Technology (OIT) focuses on the teaching and learning experiences at St. Edward’s — and how technology can improve both. Come to them for the following resources:

  • Instructional Technologies: Help setting up your course in Canvas or using one of our other instructional technology tools for teaching your classes. Here’s a short list:
    • Canvas: Learning Management System
      • Qwickly for taking attendance
      • Hypothesis for Social Annotation
      • Quizzes feature for quizzing or exams
      • Honorlock for Remote Proctoring
      • Turnitin for Plagiarism Detection
      • To learn more about Canvas, our Learning Management System, contact Instructional Technology at support@stedwards.edu and request an appointment to review Canvas. One of our Instructional Designers will meet with you one-on-one to get you started and answer your questions.
    • Zoom: Video conferencing and Phone (also integrated in Canvas)
    • Google Workspace: Email, Calendar and apps for cloud storage and collaboration (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Jamboards, etc.)
    • Panopto: Pre-record videos, record your classroom, manage and share videos; also backs up all Zoom recordings
    • Poll Everywhere: Students can respond to live polls on their phones or online
    • Google Forms: Use Google forms for Surveys and Polls.  Google Forms work well for gathering relatively simple input, like signing up participants for a workshop or gathering event feedback.
    • SEU Sites: A WordPress blogging platform that can be used for websites, blogs or e-portfolios. 
    • Google Sites: A Google Workspace application that can be used to create websites — with no knowledge of HTML required.
    • LinkedIn Learning: On demand video training resources for technology, creative, and business skills.  
    • See our Available Academic Tools guide for more information
    • Research Tools: See Accessing Research Technology for more information on specialized research technologies available for free or provided by St. Edward’s including Qualtrics, NVivo, SPSS, R, Tableau, and Zotero.
  • Instructional Design: Help designing your technology-enhanced course or assignment, whether it’s face-to-face, hybrid/blended, low-residency or online.
  • Learning Spaces: Help using classroom technology, designing an in-person or blended/hybrid class for active learning, or exploring other specialized learning spaces
  • Digital Media Center: Get help with creating or supporting multimedia assignments. Students and faculty can check out equipment or use production spaces including a video production room with greenscreen, podcast studio, and whisper room for recording audio, as well as editing stations.
  • The Instructional Technology Hub in Holy Cross 101 can be accessed and used by all faculty and staff members by using their university ID during the regular building hours of Holy Cross Hall.

Technology Support

  • Find your need-to-knows in our Getting Started Guide for faculty.
    • New Faculty: Faculty could check with their school to determine what type of technology might be available. If a hardware request is needed, please visit the Hardware Request support article for more information to submit a request. If you have a computer assigned to you by your school, then submit a support request to ensure your system is configured correctly.
  • Have technology questions or need tech support?
    • Start here: Support.stedwards.edu is available 24/7 for self-help service. You can search the knowledge base for answers to common university technology questions and instructions on how to use academic technology tools. If you need extra support, you can contact us during our business hours by emailing support@stedwards.edu. Cases submitted while we are closed will be reviewed the following business day and an agent will respond as soon as possible.

Community Resources for Teaching

St. Edward’s University thrives due to its vibrant, inclusive teaching community.  The Center for Teaching Excellence and the Instructional Technology Department host workshops, offer consultations and provide resources to help faculty develop and teach courses, whether the courses are face-to-face or online, undergraduate or graduate.  Please review the resources below:

  • Teaching Forum Workplace Group for faculty to support each other in their teaching. (Request to join.)
  • Teaching Support Google Drive folder of community-generated teaching guidelines and models, as well as recordings and slides for all teaching support events.
  • Teaching Support Events: A Shared Google Calendar with all events related to teaching support, which you can add to your own calendar. Please subscribe to the Teaching Support Events calendar and RSVP to upcoming events. Note: You must subscribe with your St. Edward’s Gmail account.
  • Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable: a forum composed of faculty, staff and students that serves the SEU community by assessing, discussing and prioritizing technology needs in order to collaboratively develop a vision to improve the learning process.

Printing and Scanning

    • FedEx Print-On-Demand: Use FedEx for high-volume printing, like exams.  
      • Log into the FedEx Print-On-Demand with your St. Edward’s credentials.
      • Plan ahead (24 – 48 hours) to get on-campus delivery in the lockers next to the bookstore or go to our assigned location (at 327 Congress Ave (4th and Congress) for pickup. 
      • Make sure to choose black & white as the color option and 30% recycled (20lb) for the best pricing.
      • Employees must provide the university’s FedEx Office Discount Number (0889865610) and show their University Photo ID to receive the university’s negotiated pricing.  
      • Pay with your PCard or using a FOAPAL. Ask your department chair or program director how to pay.
    • Faculty members should consult their department for office printer locations.  
  • HOOF Prints: Students receive a balance each semester to use Hoof Prints, our student cloud printing service with stations in the library and student computer labs. Faculty can also use these stations but don’t have an available balance so would need to add a form of payment.
  • 🌳 Please be conscious of the impact that printing has on our natural resources by printing only when necessary and limiting the printing you require of students. Be mindful also of the costs to students who will pay out-of-pocket for printing costs beyond their allotted semester balance.

KIC Scanner in Munday Library: Quickly scan high-resolution, searchable PDFs that can be sent to your email or flash drive.