Navigating IUB: New Faculty Guide

Navigating teaching resources at IU

August 12, 2025

As director of the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL), I’d like to welcome you to IU Bloomington and our campus’s community of outstanding and dedicated instructors.  

Since I arrived at IUB in 2010, I have been privileged to work with many talented instructors who invest their time, expertise, experience, and caring to improve the educations and lives of their students. That includes new faculty members like you, who bring important new perspectives and experiences to our community and our classrooms.  

The CITL offers a wide range of support for your teaching—from quick questions, to course redesigns, to career development around teaching. And whether you are new to teaching or have decades of experience, we are ready to partner with you to improve your students’ success and connect you with other IUB instructors who are working on similar projects. Think of us as a combination of one-stop-shop for teaching questions and a hub through which you can join and build communities dedicated to transformative teaching. To me, the real delight of working at the CITL and IUB is seeing those communities of instructors thrive, and in seeing new instructors grow as members and eventual leaders of those communities. 

I hope to meet many of you during the CITL’s New Faculty Orientation to Teaching on August 14th, and at the New Faculty Picnic on August 22nd. We continually look for new and innovative ways to assist our faculty, so let us know how we can help you prepare for your first semester of teaching at IUB.

Welcome again to our community, and thank you in advance for your work in helping all IU students succeed and thrive! 

Greg Siering, Ph.D 

Director, Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning 
Indiana University Bloomington 

Teaching and Technology Resources at Your Fingertips

The fall semester is rapidly approaching and many of you are putting final touches on your courses. We want you to know that IU Bloomington has many resources to help you in your preparations and beyond. 

The Start of Semester guide is a critical resource as you put the final touches on your course syllabi. It includes important information regarding semester dates, resources, instructional responsibilities, student attendance and participation policies, and links to student support services and information on student rights and responsibilities. 

The IUB Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) provides many resources in support of faculties' pursuit of excellence in the classroom. Subscribe to CITL’s blog or CITL’s weekly newsletter to get the most recent information, tips and recommendations for a wide range of pedagogical enhancements that may expand your students’ engagement in the classroom. Concerned about your students’ use of generative AI in your class? Check out this excellent resource on “How to Productively Address AI-Generated Text in Your Classroom,” which includes an instructional video on how to talk to students about suspected cases of AI misuse. 

Looking to better leverage technology in your courses? University Information Technology Services (UITS) provides extensive resources in support of IUB’s educational mission. Visit their monthly digital educational resources, ProfBox, for technology tips along with new and creative ideas for you to try with your students. Bookmark the Faculty Tech Guide, which provides a wide range of support services, including an around-the-clock tech support team. 

Looking to help your students navigate all the educational technology at their fingertips? Check out UITS’s Getting Started with Technology at IU: A Canvas Module for Students and pull in all or parts of this resource to help new students better understand what technology they need to start off on the right foot at IU. 

Lastly, whether you are an experienced pro or new to using the educational learning platform Canvas, Canvas Kapow! Pressbook can help you develop a Canvas course site that is more engaging and organized, easier to navigate, and more reflective of you and your subject area. 

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