CTL Blog

  • November 01, 2013

    November 13 & 22 Workshops: Service Learning

    Utilizing Service Learning Pedagogy to Integrate Public Health Practice into the Classroom.

  • October 29, 2013

    Big New Features for the CoursePlus Drop Box

    On November 4, 2013, we are introducing some big, new features to the Drop Box in CoursePlus. These new features bring the CoursePlus Drop Box to feature parity with the Drop Box in the online cour...

  • October 21, 2013

    OnlineCollege.Org: Suggestions for Implementing Twitter in Live Chat Discussions

    OnlineCollege.org blogger Melissa Venable, PhD, recently published an extensive white paper on the use of Twitter for conducting both synchronous and asynchronous course discussions. The pdf is av...

  • October 10, 2013

    CoursePlus Maintenance on October 16

    CoursePlus will be intermittently offline on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 between 8am and 10am for required maintenance. We do not expect the downtime to last more than 20 minutes, and will work to ...

  • September 24, 2013

    Anonymize Student File Names in the Drop Box

    In late August, we added a feature to the Drop Box tool in online courses that allows you to anonymize the file names of student files which you download from a course Drop Box. This means that ins...

  • September 18, 2013

    More Announcements on the Course Home Page

    Announcements are a handy way to let everyone in the class know about something important as soon as they arrive on the online course home page. Previously, only one announcement was displayed on a...

  • September 10, 2013

    9/11 & 9/20 CTL Workshop: Accessibility

    Did you know JHSPH currently has more students registered with the disability support office than any other graduate school at JHU?