Teaching support areas

We can help you with everything from designing a test or assignment to transitioning your department and college to a different assessment system.

Are you looking for more information on courses and workshops aimed at graduate students and postdocs? Are you new to teaching and already have some experience but want to learn more?

Connect with us!

• Roberta Chambell-Chudoba (GMCTL)

Do you have a question about teaching portfolios, philosophy statement, or how to use feedback? Connect with our staff today!

• Sara Dzaman

Please visit the Experiential Learning page to discover information regarding this topic, funding opportunities, the priority areas, and other supports available at USask. 

To learn more, please connect with our staff below.

• Aditi Garg

The Gwenna Moss Centre and Career Services offer workshops, non-credit courses, and resources for graduate students and postdocs who are new to teaching and for those who already have some experience but want to learn more. For more details please connect with our staff below.

• Rosa Moazed (Career Services)
• Roberta Campbell-Chudoba (GMCTL)

Internationalization of teaching and learning is the infusion of global intercultural or international elements into curricular learning outcomes, content and learning resources, learning activities, and assessment tasks (including feedback) with the intent of developing different ways of knowing and learning, intercultural awareness, or intercultural competence in students. 

Are you looking for help to explicitly plan for and deliver increased equity, appreciation of difference and diversity, and inclusion within your learning experiences? Connect with our staff who can help you explore and select the instructional and assessment processes necessary to meet your needs and those of your students.

• Roberta Campbell-Chudoba

At USask, our approach is to gather information about our students’ academic performance as well as demographic and activity data that could pertain to learning success. In line with the institution's Learning Charter commitments, this data will be used to connect students with appropriate academic supports and services, to personalize their learning experience, and to improve our academic programs.

Learn more about Learning analytics work. For support please connect with our staff.

• David Greaves

Open Educational Practices (OEP) are more than just open educational resources (OER) such as textbooks, slides, modules, and other freely sharable and adaptable learning materials. OEP also includes open pedagogy (students creating and sharing content instead of simply consuming it), open research and open access publishing, and open teaching (sharing with others your reflections and lessons on teaching).

Contact our staff if you are interested in finding out more about any aspect of OEP and how to begin integrating them into your teaching and learning.

• Heather Ross

• Indigenization advice
• Indigenization courses
• Indigenous knowledge and content
• Indigenous pedagogy

• Darryl Isbister

The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning provides free support to sessionals that is focused on course design, instruction, and assessment. Sessionals can access the following:

• Register for a workshop.

• Learn to use teaching technologies like Canvas (the learning management system) or Poll Everywhere (for formative assessment).

• Complete a Certificate in University Teaching and Learning to add to your resume or teaching portfolio.

• Learn what is required by policy and get help designing a syllabus based on USask’s Syllabus template or using the syllabus generator within Canvas.

• Find teaching tips and information for instructors by searching Educatus.

• Take time to discover the USask Teaching website. Read through navigation to find resources related to teaching at USask.

• Set up a consultation based on your teaching needs. Email us by clicking the button below.

• Email GMCTL

There are multiple teaching and assessment strategies that support academic integrity and reduce academic misconduct.

Strategies include:

• Help students connect to the material; foster their interest
• Design assessments that are more resistant to common forms of academic misconduct
• Clarify expectations; recognize that misunderstandings are common in a new context
• Teach skills necessary to meet expectations;
• Build rapport and normalize help-seeking;
• Address the academic misconduct you suspect early, while students can still self-correct
• Reduce undue stressors for students--academic misconduct is often a decision taken at the last minute

Learn more at the Academic Integrity website: Integrity Matters

• Susan Bens, Academic Integrity Strategist

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) empowers learners to make informed decisions and take responsible actions for the 5Ps:

• dignity of all People,
• protecting the Planet from degradation through sustainable consumption and production,
• Prosperity in economic and social terms,
• Peace free from fear and violence, and
• Partnership in global solidarity.

Learn more here

• Aditi Garg

The USask Teaching Awards honour remarkable instructors at our institution. Learn more about award areas, the criteria of each and nomination processes, including deadlines. 

• Connect with our team

Learning technology encompasses the full range of tools and media that can be used to facilitate teaching and learning. USask and the GMCTL support instructors to create engaging learning environments and provides technology solutions to support educational experiences both in the classroom and online.

* TECHNICAL QUESTIONS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE USASK IT SUPPORT TEAM - itsupport@usask.ca