Tag: Toolbox
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Your Course Communication Strategy
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Communicating is paramount in any course—this is especially true at a distance where even incidental contact is absent. Good communication correlates strongly with positive student feedback. The materials and content in your course could be entirely mute if students don’t know fully how you expect they interact with them.
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The SAMR Model
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The SAMR framework stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. It was developed by Ruben Puentedura to categorize classroom technologies and can be used to decide which technologies might be right for you in a given situation. Consider these “degrees” (rather than “levels”). Each has their place. Let’s look at the acronym using a typical…
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Checking for Students Who Are Not Engaged in Canvas
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Faculty are periodically asked to check their courses for students who are not engaged with the course and report these students in Navigate so that advisors can follow-up with the student. This page outlines the main tools that can be used to check a Canvas course for students who are not engaged.
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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…