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Teaching Guides
The teaching guides suggest options for using technologies to support your teaching goals.
- Distance learning
- Address diverse learning styles
- Promote student collaboration
- Involve students in research
- Organize and manage your course
- Support active learning
- Encourage responsibility for learning
- Enhance presentations
- Facilitate student & course evaluation
- Assess your classroom teaching
Profiles of
Technology Use
Stories of innovation about educators who are using technology in creative, effective ways. View all profiles
Organizing Information Exchange with the Catalyst ToolsLisa Stuebing
Mentoring Students at a DistanceCorinne Corrigan
Improving the Student ExperienceDavid Goldstein
How-To Guides
These documents provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks you can accomplish using the software and tools listed below. You'll also find links to instructions for related tasks and tips and cautions that can save you time.
Using Catalyst Web Tools
- Your Account
- Collect It
- CommonView
- File Manager
- GoPost
- GradeBook
- Group Manager
- Portfolio
- Portfolio Project Builder
- QuickPoll
- ShareSpaces
- SimpleSite
- UMail
- WebQ
Facilities and Printing
Computing Fundamentals
- Apple OS X
- Computer Management & Security
- Linux Installation
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Networking
- Troubleshooting Windows XP
- Troubleshooting OS X
- Unix
- UW Computing Survival Skills
- Using SSH Secure File Transfer
- Connect to a remote server with Fugu
- Transferring Files To and From a Server With Fugu
- Turn an electronic document into a PDF file
- VI quick reference
- Unix quick reference
- Introduction to email at UW
- Removing/Disabling Peer to Peer Software
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Access Version 2007/Vista
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Excel Version 2007/Vista
Graphics & Presentations
Document Creation
- Adobe Acrobat Professional
- EndNote
- InDesign
- LaTeX
- Microsoft Word (Version 2003/XP)
- Microsoft Word (Version 2007/Vista)
Audio
- Apple GarageBand
- Digital Audio Workstation Overview
- Pro Tools
- Reason
- Audacity
- Introduction to streaming media
- Mackie mixer reference guide
- Reason quick reference
- ProTools quick reference
- ProTools reference
- Sonar reference
Video
- Adobe After Effects
- Digital Video Overview
- Adobe Encore
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Apple iMovie
- Adobe Premiere
- Windows Movie Maker
- Introduction to streaming media
Web Publishing
Contact Us
- Online help form
- lsthelp@uw.edu
- 206.897.1999
In-person Help
Computing Commons
Drop-in consulting services at MGH & OUGL Computing Commons.