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Resources for the Classroom

These resources will help you in the classroom.

  • Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR): A University-wide initiative that supports faculty in making course materials more affordable and accessible. AIR experts are available for individual consultations and assistance. Resources include:
  • Canvas: A cloud-hosted learning management system that allows instructors and students to deliver course materials, submit assignments, view grades, and create learning activities.
  • Faculty and Advisers Action Guide: School Advising Leadership (SAL) and Student Assistance and Support Services (SASS) created this guide to help faculty and advisers identify levels of concerning behavior and determine the appropriate contacts for undergraduate student academic or behavioral concerns. The guide includes contacts for emergency, urgent, academic, and non-academic concerns.
  • Northwestern Libraries: Provides course reserves in the library and through Canvas, including print, digital, and streaming materials. The libraries also help faculty discover and select affordable, open, and electronic textbook options. Faculty can partner with librarians to create course-specific learning activities and resources that strengthen students' research skills. Additional resources include library classrooms for research instruction and video and audio recording studios for creating presentations, lectures, and instructional videos.
    • Course Reserve: Makes course materials, including print, digital, and streaming media, available at the library circulation desk or through Canvas.
    • Syllabi Review: Helps determine whether journals and e-books are available through library databases.
  • Open Educational Resources (OER): Offers free teaching materials, including textbooks, that can be widely distributed and modified to meet instructors' needs. OER experts are available to help faculty find or develop resources for their courses.
  • Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching: Provides programs, workshops, and services to support teaching excellence.
  • Syllabus Statements: Provides required statements that instructors are asked to include in their syllabi.
  • Teaching and Learning Information Technology: Supports innovative learning experiences through learning management systems, in-class and online course development, learning analytics, course evaluation, lecture capture, classroom technology consultations, and other faculty tools and services. Resources include training for the University's learning management system, Canvas, and the annual TEACHx showcase.
  • The Block Museum of Art: A dynamic teaching and learning resource for Northwestern and its surrounding communities. The Block offers group tours and class trips. Its work includes presenting art across time, cultures, and media; convening interdisciplinary discussions that use art as a starting point for exploring issues and ideas; and collecting art that supports the Northwestern University curriculum.