Digital Teaching Resources
- If you’re new to Middlebury, first review the Faculty Technology Orientation
- If you’re having difficulty with your Middlebury credentials or logging in, contact the ITS Helpdesk.
- If you need help with in-classroom technology setup, contact Media Services at the College or Institute.
- DLINQ’s Toolshed page provides an introduction to a wide range of digital tools for online, hybrid, and in-person learning available to Middlebury faculty, staff, and students across campuses.
- The DLINQ Canvas Course Template provides a base course site and pages from which to begin building your course. Learn more about the template (and Canvas, in general) at the DLINQ Canvas page.
- Camp Online Design provides a self-paced, asynchronous learning experience for diving into research-based practices for designing online, hybrid, and flexible learning environments.
- Middlebury’s Online Course Design Rubric articulates core components of good online course design, and identifies specific elements to attend to while creating your online course.
- DLINQ’s Asynchronous Cookbook provides recipes for asynchronous activities that encourage active and engaged learning, including specific instructions plus examples.
Where can I get help with hybrid or hyflex teaching strategies?
- Check out the Strategies for Connecting On-Ground and Remote Students video and slides.
- If you need help with in-classroom technology setup, contact Media Services at the College or Institute
- Preparing to Teach Hyflex Classes
- Whiteboard Choices in a Hyflex Classroom
- Planning a 50- or 75-minute Hyflex Class Session by Kevin Kelly
- Designing a Hybrid-Flexible Course by Brian Beatty
- Hyflex Sample Lesson by Columbia School of Professional Studies
- Transparency and Communication When Using Zoom in the Classroom by Hector Vila (Middlebury College)
- The Asynchronous Cookbook by DLINQ
- Engaging Students Virtually
- Humanizing Online Learning
- Inclusive Design Resources
How do I create rich and meaningful learning in the classroom or remotely using digital tools and platforms?
What are my options for digital tools to support learning in person or online?
- Annotation Tools
- Asynchronous Collaboration
- Audio Recording & Editing
- Cloud Storage
- Course Management & Design
- DLINQ Toolshed (info + tutorials about Middlebury digital tools and platforms)
- Processes for Reusing a Canvas Site
- Synchronous Collaboration
- Video Recording & Editing
- Video Playlists from DLINQ (video tutorials tied to specific events/tools/workshops)
What do I need to know about data privacy and security for myself and my students?
How do I ensure my learning materials are accessible?
Creating Accessible Digital Materials
Options for Creating Captions & Transcripts for Online Videos
- DLINQ Workshops & Events
- DLINQ Video Playlists (video tutorials tied to specific events/tools/workshops)
- CryptoParty Resources
- Center for Teaching, Learning, & Research Events
- DLINQ one-on-one consultations
- Canvas Template for Language Schools (must be logged in to Canvas with Midd credentials to access)
- How to Install and Modify the Language Schools Canvas template (video)
- Language Learning Assignments and their Canvas Versions
- Using Zoom and GoReact for Consec and Simul Interpreting
- Using H5P and Quizlet to Create Online Language Learning Games
My academic discipline has unique digital needs. Where do I find help with that?
This webpage offers links to a variety of digital teaching and learning resources. Click to expand items in the menu at left to find resources specific to the featured topic. You may also wish to schedule a one-on-one consultation with a DLINQ team member for help with a particular digital teaching or learning tool or to discuss pedagogical practices and strategies related to teaching/learning with tech in-person, online, or in a hybrid mode. DLINQ’s goal is to:
- Guide and support faculty, staff, and students in the design, development, and implementation of digital learning and use of digital tools, whether in the classroom, hybrid, or fully remote.
- Advocate and support critical digital literacy among faculty, staff, and students.
- Promote inclusive, equitable, and humanizing approaches to teaching and learning.
- Facilitate and participate in projects and communities that cross institutional boundaries, and that support ownership and agency by faculty and students alike.
We invite your input for ongoing programming. If you have ideas for online learning topics that you’d like to know more about, please email us at dlinq @ middlebury dot edu.
WHO TO CONTACT FOR DIGITAL HELP AT MIDDLEBURY
DLINQ serves all of Middlebury, including the College in Middlebury, VT, the Institute in Monterey, CA, the Language Schools, Schools Abroad, the School of the Environment, and Bread Loaf School of English. By combining expertise in instructional design, pedagogical research, learning space design, animation and video production, and more, the team provides dynamic, strategic, and robust resources that are accessible to faculty, staff, and students across all of Middlebury’s programs. Click the button below to request a consultation with a member of our team.
Contact DLINQ for assistance with such things as online or hybrid teaching strategies, how to work with digital teaching tools and technologies, and structuring teaching and learning activities using digital tools.
Contact the ITS Heldesk for assistance with such things as logins, VPN, access to software and remote teaching equipment (order requests, installation, technical problems), system and application access status.
Helpdesk hours are subject to change. The Helpdesk Hours page will reflect these changes.
Helpdesk support is available via a ticket, email helpdesk@middlebury.edu, Zoom, or phone (802) 443-2200 VT and (831) 647-6656 CA. Please Zoom or call to schedule.
Visit the Middlebury ITS website for the latest updates and system status information.
If you need help with in-classroom technology setup, or you want to borrow media like cameras or other hardware, contact Media Services at the College or Institute.
If you are having upload/download or processing issues with online tools or software, we recommend checking the system status to see if it’s already a known issue before contacting the Helpdesk. ITS offers a system and performance dashboard on its homepage at https://www.middlebury.edu/office/information-technology-services#its-system-status
Contact the Middlebury Libraries for assistance with such things as e-Reserves, digital research, digital textbooks, and copyright questions.
Middlebury College Libraries, Vermont
To access a library-licensed resource from off campus, click on its link from the Library Homepage, LibrarySearch, MIDCAT, Research Guides, Middlebury Databases, or Journals.
Middlebury Institute Library, CA
You do not need a VPN connection to use these databases.
- MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE LIBRARY HOMEPAGE
- LIBRARY CATALOG
- MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE DATABASES
- LIBRARY SEARCH (requires EZPROXY)
- E-RESERVES
- RESEARCH GUIDES
- FULL TEXT FINDER (search for magazines, journals, and newspapers by title)
When using the Library Catalog, be sure to use the “Advanced Search” tab and select “Middlebury Institute – Online” as the item location to access our e-books.
See the DLINQ Remote Student Resources page for remote learning support and guidance for students.
FEATURED RESOURCES
Provides a self-paced, asynchronous learning experience diving into research-based practices for designing online, hybrid, and flexible learning environments.
An introduction to asynchronous teaching and learning with recipes for activities that encourage active and engaged learning, including specific instructions plus examples.
A repository of teaching ideas contributed by Middlebury faculty, for Middlebury faculty. Add your own ideas or search for ideas contributed by others.
Articulates core components of good online course design, and identifies specific elements to attend to while creating your online course.
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