The Cowbell
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Session Recording: “The UWGB Land Acknowledgment: How to Meaningfully and Respectfully Recognize Wisconsin’s First Nations” (Jan. 19, 2021)
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Presentation on the UWGB Land Acknowledgment from the Instructional Development Institute, 2021.
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Backward Design
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What is backward design? Backward design is a three-stage process for designing a course: Identify outcomes or the desired results of learning. Determine what counts as acceptable evidence of learning. Plan learning experiences or instruction that will lead students. to achieve your outcomes and provide evidence of learning. Instructional designers call this process “backward” because…
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Canvas: Rich Content Editor
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The Canvas Rich Content Editor (RCE) is an editor for Canvas pages, assignments, discussions, quizzes, and announcements. If you’ve ever edited a Canvas page or added a description to an assignment, you’ve already used it! The RCE allows you to add and format text, insert photos and videos, and link web content in many areas…
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Exam Conversions Available
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In response to the added challenges of the semester, CATL has procured limited access to a tool for converting and importing quizzes (or exams) to Canvas. The tool converts a formatted text document (.txt, .rtf, or Word) into a Canvas quiz. Details of the formatting required can be found in this document (downloadable PDF). Use…
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Facilitating Online Student Presentations (Synchronous)
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This article contains strategies for preparing your students to give awesome presentations in synchronous online classes over videoconferencing programs. While many of the fundamentals of making strong in-person presentations apply to presenting online, the online element adds an extra layer of technical competencies and media-specific best practices for your students to consider. The aim of…