Today’s Faculty Focus newsletter features a post by Eileen Schiffer, PhD, entitled Tips for Online Instructors: Managing Files, Feedback, and Workload. Dr. Schiffer describes her own workflow and practical suggestions for managing the online teaching workload while maintaining strong teacher presence and student engagement.

What techniques work for you? Post a comment here to share your suggestions with other UIU online instructors.

A suggestion I have is to use a free clipboard manager app to copy & paste multiple items with ease. For example, many of us maintain a file with frequently used grading comments or replies to questions, but the technique still requires a lot of copying & pasting and switching between applications. Using a clipboard manager, you copy all of those different bits of text to the clipboard then use keyboard shortcuts (or an icon in the system tray/menu bar) to paste multiple items without having to “copy” each one again. Two good, free, open-source clipboard managers I recommend are Ditto for PC and JumpCut for Mac.