Welcome!
The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is here to help Duke faculty with teaching; we offer many programs and workshops throughout the year to help build teaching skills and to provide opportunities for faculty to connect with each other to share teaching knowledge and experiences. If you have questions about teaching, please contact us.
Some of what the CTL offers:
- Faculty development programs to connect with other faculty and build teaching skills and knowledge.
- Online guides for course planning and special topics such as generative AI in the classroom.
- A calendar of events such as workshops, panels and talks on various teaching topics;
- Advice about using Duke’s learning technology environment (Canvas, WordPress, Zoom, Gradescope, VoiceThread, Warpwire and many more tools.
- Guidance on how to create or locate appropriate teaching materials for your course (Open Educational Resources, existing library materials, recorded video segments, and more).
- Toolkits for planning a successful first day of class, creating a student-centered syllabus, and engaging students in critical conversations about AI.
- Support for doing research on your teaching, or for developing and piloting new teaching techniques or technologies.
- A monthly e-newsletter with lots of opportunities and resources for your teaching.
We look forward to meeting you and having many productive discussions about teaching with you in the coming months and years!
We have gathered the following information about many other important teaching-related resources on campus for your easy reference.
Classrooms and classroom support
These resources are available to faculty teaching undergraduate courses at Duke. If you are teaching a course in a professional school, please check for resources within your school.
- In general, if you have concerns about your classroom assignment, first check within your department with your Director for Undergraduate (or Graduate) Studies or departmental admin assistant, to see if they can help.
- Reserve a computer lab for a class
- Make a request for classroom support
- Panopto automated lecture capture is available in certain classrooms
Materials for your course
- Setting up online course reserves
- Software available for students, faculty and staff
- Virtual Computing Environments can be created with specialized software for any course
- Image collections available at Duke
- Film and video collections at Duke
- Scholarly Communications Toolkit for questions about copyright and fair-use
- Research Guides – librarian-provided research assistance, subject guides and useful resources
- Media creation and innovation at the Bryan Center Studios.
- Duke’s Brand Guide from University Communications
Resources for you and your students
- The Academic Resource Center (ARC) provides tutoring for students on many subjects, as well as general help for students on time management and study skills development.
- DukeReach directs students, faculty, staff, parents, and others to the resources available to help a student in need.
- The Edge provides work spaces for teamwork and resources for data-driven research.
- Borrow audio/visual equipment to use in or outside of the classroom.
- The Center for Data and Visualization Sciences can help with all aspects of data-related projects and class assignments.
- The Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library provides support for courses and instruction.
- The Writing Studio, located in Perkins Library, provides writing help and support for students and other writers at Duke.
- The registrar is the home of the academic calendar and offers several “how to” guidelines for faculty
- Dukehub is Duke’s system for course rosters, submitting grades, and finding student deans when a student is struggling .
- The Access and Accommodation Services Office ensures access for everyone at Duke, and provides Accommodate, the system for managing and accessing student accommodation letters
- The Testing Center offers testing accommodations and makeup exams.
- The Office of Student Conduct provides guidance on academic integrity and Duke processes for handling academic misconduct.
Duke-supported technologies for teaching and collaboration
- Duke WordPress to create a website for your course or group
- Zoom for videoconferencing
- Google Workspace pilot for shared documents
- Multimedia resources: Streaming Media
- Box provides network storage for personal use or classes
- MS Teams for group file sharing and communication
- Gradescope for digitizing handwritten exams and assignments to facilitate grading
- Canvas, Duke’s learning management system, for sharing course materials, collecting assignments, and keeping track of course grades
Getting out of the classroom
- Nasher Museum of Art academic initiatives staff can design tours of exhibitions and collections in storage, and help design lesson plans and assignments that complement courses.
- Duke Gardens, Duke Forest, and the Duke Lemur Center offer opportunities to teach in natural environments.
- The Innovation Co-Lab supports innovative technology projects.
- There are multiple makerspaces on campus.
- You can reserve both physical and virtual computer labs for your classes.
Skills development for faculty
- The Office of Information Technology (OIT) offers various technology training options: Technology Training Seminars, onDemand Training, Online Training, Learn IT@ Lunch Seminar Series.
- Innovation Co-Lab’s “roots” program offers workshops on tech topics
- Duke’s Learning and Organizational Development offers many workshops
- Learn to use Duke’s survey tool, Qualtrics, at Qualtrics University
- Duke University Medical Center Library provides training and consultations
- Duke Social Science Research Institute offers workshops on survey software and other topics related to conducting research
- The Writing & Rhetoric Program offers faculty resources to help effectively teaching writing in any discipline
Custom for-fee services
- Duke Web Services provides web design and development
- Duke Media Services provides professional quality recording, mixing and A/V production
General Duke info
- Find information about your courses in DukeHub.
- DukeReach directs students, faculty, staff, parents, and others to the resources available to help a student in need.
- OIT Service Desk is Duke’s central help desk
- Duke faculty handbook
- Find your way around with Duke campus maps
- Duke bus, van and other transportation schedules
- OIT Directory Services
- OIT’s resource page for faculty & researchers contains many other computing resources for teaching and research