Resources for Teaching Writing Online

Teaching Writing Online

Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces is a collection of essays for teachers offered for free. 

The Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) offers resources, a collection of webinars, certification, and conferences. 

CGS offers resources and standards for online courses that may be helpful to you as you are developing your online course.

Teaching Writing

The Writing Institute offers advice on teaching writing across the curriculum, general writing advice, teaching multimodal writing, and support for teaching and assessment.

The site for the University of Pittsburgh Writing Center shares hours and scheduling instructions for students as well as information for faculty. The Writing Center offers both online and in-person tutorials.

The Writing Institute welcomes faculty teaching (or planning to teach) writing-intensive undergraduate or graduate courses to meet for a one-on-one pedagogy consultation (over Zoom) with a member of our team.

Canvas Tutorials for Students

Don't assume that your students know how to use Canvas! Teachers receive multiple emails about finding peer reviews every semester--this is a great link to have on-hand.

When you have offered useful feedback for students, you want to be sure they know how to access instructor feedback

University Center for Teaching and Learning Canvas Tutorials for Teachers

UCTL has created a cache of YouTube videos walking instructors through Canvas topics such as "How to Add Rubrics, "How to Assign Peer Reviews," and many more.

English Department's Digital Media and Pedagogy (DMAP) Digital Pedagogy Resources

DMAP includes examples of multimodal assignments that work well in online courses.