About CTS

The Collaborative Teaching Server (CTS) provides a space for the development of innovative applications and websites designed to meet the educational needs of faculty and students across the Commonwealth Campuses. All projects featured on the server are built by the Commonwealth community for the Commonwealth community, fostering a sense of collaboration and mutual benefit.

Projects

Commonwealth Campus Teaching Support

Commonwealth Campus Teaching Support (CCTS) is a website that contains information, guides, teaching resources, and faculty development events for faculty across the Penn State Commonwealth Campuses. It also serves as the home for the Fall and Spring semester Commonwealth Connection: Instructor Days events.

Pathways to Pedagogy

Pathways to Pedagogy (P2P) is a website developed to connect faculty with appropriate educational technology tools and teaching activities that meet their classroom needs. The site links Penn State-supported tech tools with teaching activities and shows how they work in real-world use cases from Penn State faculty.

H5P Pedagogy Guide

The purpose of the H5P Pedagogy Guide is to explore the pedagogical timing—the instances—suitable for H5P interactive functionalities. In face-to-face teaching, there are natural pauses for questions, reflection, individual engagement, and interaction with concepts, and in online, hybrid, or self-paced digital formats, H5P can create similar interactive moments when needed.

Commonwealth H5P

Calling all commonwealth instructional designers and multimedia specialists! Commonwealth H5P is available to empower you in creating, sharing, and reusing interactive content. With H5P, you can effortlessly craft engaging and dynamic course content. If you're eager to infuse your courses with interactive content, don't wait another moment – request your account today.

Hours of Instructional Activity (HIA) App

The Hours of Instructional Activity (HIA) app is a quick and easy way to see how hours are distributed across types of activities throughout the entire course. Users can choose to view results in semester view or week view, allowing for a more generalized or granular look at learning time. Reports can then be printed out and shared with others, including students.

World Campus Course Information Site

Develop and create sample syllabus and course material information for WC courses available at Penn State commonwealth campuses, ensuring convenient public access. Share all the essential details required to effectively communicate your course information to prospective students through our user-friendly platform. Start sharing your course details today!

AI Chatbot

Great Valley is undergoing a redesign aimed at captivating new students and showcasing programs. Updates include the addition of program overviews, course syllabi featuring introductory videos, and inspiring stories from former students. As part of this project, an AI Chatbot feature is under development to provide prompt and helpful responses.

Advisory Board

Member List

Jon Gunnell

Jon Gunnell

Chair / Director
Center for eLearning Initiatives
Penn State Behrend

Jim Serafin

Jim Serafin

Director
Information Technology Services
Penn State Behrend

Gary Barb

Gary Barb

Associate Director
Information Technology Services
Penn State Harrisburg

Lindsay Wood

Lindsay Wood

Director
Online and Information Technology
Penn State Abington

Sarah Kettell

Sarah Kettell

Educational Programmer/Analyst
The Center for Teaching Excellence
Penn State Harrisburg

Jaimen Gallo

Jaimen Gallo

Instructional Developer
Center for eLearning Initiatives
Penn State Behrend

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