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Why use a Gather shareable link?
Why use a Gather shareable link? From time to time, you may want to distribute the direct link to a class meeting, such as in an email to your students, or an announcement. Some instructors even prefer to place this information in the public syllabus...

OpenCast Self Edit and Unpublish
Editing your flexible attendance class videos in OpenCast A video tutorial of this OpenCast topic is also available If you are teaching a course with a Flexible Attendance option, you should have a “Class Recordings” tab on your Canvas site which is...

Remote Guest Speakers
How to host a remote guest speaker in an online DCE course All guest speakers in DCE courses should fill out the guest speaker form available from FEAA in the Faculty Portal, which includes the video recording release. If the guest is appearing in a cross...

Live Streaming crosslisted classes at DCE
What is a crosslisted course? DCE offers a number of courses each semester which are being offered on campus at other Harvard University schools, that are filmed for the students signing up to take the class online through the Extension School. The...

What is OpenCast and why should I use it?
OpenCast is an open source platform for processing, storing, and delivering video recordings to viewers. Harvard DCE’s custom version of OpenCast is heavily integrated with the other components of DCE online course delivery such as Canvas, Immersive...

Fall 2025: New Opportunities
To express interest in joining either or both of these opportunities, please fill out this interest form by Tuesday, September 23. Two faculty learning opportunities Our teaching and learning team is offering two upcoming faculty learning opportunities...

The Course Polisher Suite: Faculty-Driven Chatbots

Updated 10/9/2025: Course Polisher suite is now available to all 500 of our faculty In DCE’s Teaching and Learning team, we’re always asking ourselves: “How can we better support our faculty, right when and where they need it most?” This question became...

Facilitation Slam Toolkit: Strategies that Work
This June, two members of our Faculty Development team – Woden Teachout and Zahra Ahmed – had the honor of presenting “Facilitation Slam: A Playful Session of Give and Take.” The session was part of the Virtual Gathering, a national convening of...

DCE Bot Club
The advent of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) caused concerns among DCE instructors about academic integrity. But could GenAI be used to enhance student learning? In January 2025, with the help of Teaching & Learning and HUIT staff, a group of...