Canvas For Students
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Narrated PowerPoint Best Practices
Narrating your PowerPoint slides can be a great way to add “yourself” into your online course. Using the PowerPoint Narration function is not the best way to do it. This video will explain a few reasons why not to use PowerPoint; offer a simple alternative; and give some basic tips on instructional content creation.
Setting a Homepage
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Learning Objectives
Resource PreviewPlease click below to access the full resource. If you need access, go to the Course Enrollment Page BelowGo To Full Resource Now Learning Objectives First Steps To develop a lesson, we’ll use designing backward. We’ll start with where we want our learners to end up at the end of the course, our objectives. Writing…
Achievement: Delaying the Grade
Resource PreviewPlease click below to access the full resource. If you need access, go to the Course Enrollment Page BelowGo To Full Resource Now Achievement: Delaying the Grade Often when students receive a grade, they discontinue engagement with the assignment regardless of whether or not they’ve achieved the objectives of the assignment. Faculty are often…
Interactive Zoom Class Meetings
Resource PreviewPlease click below to access the full resource. If you need access, go to the Course Enrollment Page BelowGo To Full Resource Now Interactive Zoom Class Meetings There are dozens of ways to facilitate a Zoom session with your class. However, simply broadcasting your lecture through a Zoom session is likely to be less…
Pages
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Backward Design
Resource PreviewPlease click below to access the full resource. If you need access, go to the Course Enrollment Page BelowGo To Full Resource Now Backward Design Check out these great resources from experts in the field. Backward Design: The Basics (Links to an external site.) Backward Design Backward design is an approach to instructional planning that…
Engagement, Reinforcement, Achievement & Community
Resource PreviewPlease click below to access the full resource. If you need access, go to the Course Enrollment Page BelowGo To Full Resource Now Engagement, Reinforcement, Achievement, & Community For our purposes, let’s divide teaching and learning strategies into four broad categories. It will give us some common language and naming conventions that will help…
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
Resource PreviewPlease click below to access the full resource. If you need access, go to the Course Enrollment Page BelowGo To Full Resource Now Synchronous Vs Asynchronous There are benefits to both synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences no matter what the typical modality of your course. Voice, video, and text are available with both. Synchronous…