Quick Links for Instructors

Programs, resources, and services to help instructors elevate their teaching at UCLA.

The UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) provides resources, services, and collaborative engagement opportunities for the campus instructional community to elevate teaching and foster an enduring commitment to student success. We offer professional learning programs — from one-time workshops to multi-day institutes — for educators working to implement effective teaching strategies and find opportunities to collaborate with colleagues. Through consultations, course design assistance, and media production support, the TLC aids educators in crafting innovative course materials and assessment tools to foster an effective, inclusive classroom experience. Additionally, we provide educational innovation grants, teaching bulletins, and on-demand pedagogical support materials that help instructors throughout the entire teaching experience, support well-being, and help them continue to build instructional skills and pedagogical knowledge.

Programs

10 + 10 Pop-Up Series
This weekly series of brief learning sessions covers topics related to course design, teaching, and learning assessment. Each presentation is just 10 minutes in length, followed by an optional 10 minutes of Q&A and discussion.

Dialogue Across Difference Faculty Fellows
Hosted in partnership with the Dialogue across Difference (DaD) Initiative, this program supports instructors as they equip students with the tools to engage in complex conversations across differences in lived experience, cultural background, and perspective.

Distinguished Teaching Awards
These awards are UCLA’s highest recognition for teaching excellence and honor recipients under three classifications: senate faculty, non-senate faculty, and teaching assistants.

Instructor Wellbeing Initiative
These resources and programs support UCLA’s instructional community as both people and professionals. The initiative is guided by a conceptual framework that approaches wellbeing holistically to consider the relationship between the needs of hope, agency, and relatedness.

Resources

Digital Accessibility for Teaching and Learning
These resources provide strategies for creating digital course content that all people can access and use. To meet upcoming federal guidance on digital accessibility standards, those teaching at UCLA may need to adjust their course materials.

Educational Innovation Grants
These grants are designed to elevate teaching by equipping instructors of record with resources and support to enhance their teaching practices and advance innovative, engaging, and equitable instructional approaches.

Maintaining Instructional Continuity
These resources provide guidance and support to instructors who may be facing personal struggles while managing their courses during challenging times. This includes tips for managing difficult classroom conversations, resources for those most impacted by anticipated federal policies, and slides instructors can use to communicate with their students.

Teaching Bulletins
These instructional resources offer guidance to instructors on managing their classrooms, including best practices for incorporating Zoom, how to protect privacy and data while addressing digital accessibility, and AI tools available at UCLA.

Teaching Guides
Teaching Guides provide in-depth guidance to help instructors understand important pedagogical practices and approaches to support their seamless integration into teaching.

Preparing to Teach
Preparing to teach resources include the getting started checklist, strategies to use generative AI in the classroom, digital accessibility guidance, Bruin Learn resources, and much more.

Services

Consultations
The TLC collaborates with instructors to aid in course development, student learning assessment, and classroom technologies to foster an engaging classroom experience. Schedule a meeting with the TLC staff.

Instructional Design
The TLC’s Instructional Designers aid educators in crafting innovative course materials and integrating technology tools to foster an effective learning experience for all students. Learn more about how we can collaborate to meet your instructional goals.

Media Production
Whether recording one lecture or a full course, our Media Production team supports instructors in creating impactful multimedia content that helps students connect to course material.

Student Experiences of Teaching (SET)
Data collected in our Student Experiences of Teaching (SET) surveys can provide helpful information for updating spring courses or developing future classes. The TLC Assessment Guide for Instructors provides suggestions for interpreting the data and encouraging student engagement.

Test Scoring
The TLC offers a free test-scoring service to all UCLA instructors who administer multiple-choice exams. This provides an efficient and accurate means of grading multiple-choice exams, and includes reports to help improve the testing process.