Main Content
Equity & Inclusion
- Creating an Inclusive Classroom Culture
- Faculty Resources for Working with Students with Disabilities
- Graduate Tacoma - 65 Ways to be Anti-Racist in Tacoma
- UW Race & Equity Initiative Anti-Racism Resources
- UW Senate's Inclusivity and Community webpage
- UW Teaching & Learning Center: Inclusive Teaching
Research & Funding
- Conducting Research at UW Tacoma
- Catalyst Research Initiative
- Finding Funding - Office of Research
- Centralized grant management resources
- Grant resources (Office of Advancement)
- Grants Resource Center
- Grants.gov
- MyResearch provides a personalized, cross-cutting view of various research-related activities.
- SAGE - System to Administer Grants Electronically
- Grant Tracker provides up-to-date grant and contract information to UW researchers and staff.
- Zipline - Human Subjects Division Zipline resources page.
- UW Office of Animal Welfare Research Support Services
- UW Tacoma ResearchWorks
- UWT IT Support for Research
- SEE MORE UW TACOMA OFFICE OF RESEARCH RESOURCES
Software and Technology
- Software available for the UW (UWare)
- Acquiring Software and Hardware
- Using Canvas (our course management system)
- Classroom technology support
- What equipment can be found in each classroom?
- Help with classroom technologies? Email tacmedia@uw.edu or call 253-692-4357
- Recording lectures
- Panopto - for storage of videos and sharing
- Zoom recording - (90 days availability and automatically gets deleted)
- Open Broadcasting Software and YouTube – (video demo)
- Polling, surveys and quizzes
- Poll Everywhere - Make Your Own Poll in Seconds integrated with Canvas for polling. UW provides free licenses for UW community.
- Qualtrics (online survey tool)
- Respondus can get your quizzes into Canvas easily (cheap but not free)
- Whiteboards and virtual bulletin boards
- Padlet - Virtual Bulletin Board to post anonymous questions during lecture.
- Explain Everything - Online Whiteboard (basic) - records lectures in a white board format, you can also import slides
- AirServer Connect - Advanced Screen Mirroring - To be able to project iPad on your desktop for PC
- Microsoft Whiteboard - Digital Online Whiteboard App
- CATME is a tool to get your students into diverse teams easily.
- Microsoft OneNote Digital Note Taking App
- Remote File Access (for remote access to your H: drive or the “Department” S: drive using a browser)
- Scheduling
- SEE MORE IT RESOURCES
Community Engagement
- Campus Compact - network of higher education institutions committed to advancing the public purpose of colleges and universities, educating students for the workforce and civic leadership, and working in partnership to cultivate vital and sustainable communities.
- Engagement Scholarship Consortium - works collaboratively to build strong university-community partnerships anchored in the rigor of scholarship and designed to help build community capacity
- Community Engagement Fellows - empowers educators and community leaders to nurture engaged citizens, serve the public, and improve the Salish Sea bioregion and the planet
- MORE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RESOURCES
Grading
- Grading Resources
- UW Tacoma Grading Policy (including undergraduate grading scale, grading for graduate Students, other letter grades, and grading procedures.
Parking & Transportation
- Parking on campus
- Disability Parking on campus
- U-PASS
- Transit to UW Seattle
- Sound Transit Rte. 586 goes directly from UW Tacoma to UW Seattle, 3x per day
Public Expression
- AT UW
- Student Affairs: Safe Expressive Activity at UW Tacoma
- The UW guidance on freedom of expression
- The UWT guidance on demonstration/protest
- UW Dialogue Initiative: University of Washington
- EXTERNAL RESOURCES
- Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching: Resources about strategies for anticipating and responding to difficult discussions as well as classroom incivility. Specifically, the Guidelines for Discussing Difficult or High-Stakes Topics.
- From the AASCU American Democracy Project: Constructive Dialogue: Fostering Trust, Curiosity, and Deeper Learning in the Classroom
- Braver Angels, a program supported by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
- Resources from AAC&U: Elections as Teachable Moments and Institute for Democracy & Higher Education
Teaching Support
- Addressing Microaggressions in the Classroom
- Curriculum Development
- Facilitating class conversations in the wake of distressing current events
- Faculty development tools and teaching tips
- Faculty Resource Center
- Guidebook for Advancing Student Well-being at UW
- Office of Teaching Excellence offers consultations
- Hybrid/Online teaching certification
- Syllabus Resources
- Teaching and Learning Center
- Teaching@UW Instructional Continuity
- SEE MORE OFFICE OF TEACHING EXCELLENCE RESOURCES
Textbook & Materials
- O'Reilly's - There are probably hundreds of library links we could post, but this one is incredibly useful - login with your uw.edu identity.
- Microsoft Azure for Education - make a Microsoft account using your uw.edu identity (if you don’t already have one).
- Open Educational Resources - textbooks, notes, assignments, quizzes, etc. that are free to use and in most cases modify and revise via the Creative Commons (CC) license system.
- Vitalsource has lots of textbooks for reading online
- SAGE Knowledge Base: (Social Sciences book and media reference guide)
