Large-enrollment courses (typically 100+ students) are increasingly common in engineering programs at Arizona State University. Such classes provide unique opportunities as well as logistical challenges. Building meaningful connections and sustaining student engagement can be more challenging in large classes, and the sheer number of students can make grading feel daunting. At the same time, these settings create opportunities to cultivate an energetic, shared learning community.

Peer reviews are collaborative opportunities for students to work in pairs or small groups to assess the work of their peers and provide quality feedback. This QRG includes planning considerations, implementation ideas, recommendations for creating rubrics, and modality tips.

Jigsaw is an active learning strategy that has students work in cooperative groups to become experts on one assigned topic before teaching other classmates about their assigned topic. This QRG describes the strategy in detail and provides practical implementation and planning suggestions across class modalities.

Flipped learning changes the way students engage by reversing the order of the traditional lecture and assignment components. Instructors provide learning materials ‘outside’ of class time, and then use the class time for hands-on activities. This QRG includes directions for planning, good practices to follow, and examples of classroom activities.

Concept maps are a way to get students to interact with content to make connections at a more sophisticated level. This QRG introduces readers to concept maps, distinguishes what they are and are not, provides practical implementation steps and shares benefits of using them in coursework.

CATME is a web-based tool (available to all FSE instructors) that is designed to support peer evaluation, team and collaborative learning, and/or project-based activities. This QRG includes comprehensive directions on implementing CATME in your course, including requesting a CATME account, creating teams, and using peer evaluations.